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The current loop is a bit awkward for a number of reasons:
* iostat exits after a number of iterations, so to keep the script
going we need to run it in a nested loop;
* we also run iostat concurrently using the |& syntax, which in
addition to being non-portable requires us to set up a cleanup
path so that we don't leave stray processes around when spectrwm
is restarted;
* due to the fact that iostat prints its headers again every 20
records, we have to keep careful track of the number of
iterations - something which has proven to be error-prone.
Once we do away with the idea of iostat driving the update loop, all
of these issues disappear and the code becomes much simpler.
We still cache battery data for 11 seconds, which is the same amount
as before; tweaking it further, if desired, will be trivial now.
This patch is better viewed with 'git show -w'.
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spectrwm
spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling and reparenting window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It is written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.
It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.
spectrwm is a beautiful pearl! For it too, was created by grinding irritation. Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten for some task one never needs. The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical OpenBSD fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve no other purpose than to obey its masters. It is released under the ISC license. Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.
Building and installation
Click here for current installation guide
Feedback and questions
You can and come chat with us on IRC. We use OFTC channel #spectrwm.
Major features
- Dynamic RandR support (multi-head)
- Navigation anywhere on all screens with either the keyboard or mouse
- Customizable status bar
- Human readable configuration file
- Restartable without losing state
- Quick launch menu
- Many screen layouts possible with a few simple key strokes
- Windows can be added or removed from master area
- Windows can be moved to any workspace or within a region
- Resizable master area
- Move/resize floating windows
- Drag-to-float
- Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) Support
- Configureable tiling
- Adjustable tile gap allows for a true one pixel border.
- Customizable colors and border width.
- User definable regions
- User definable modkey & key bindings
- User definable quirk bindings
- User definable key bindings to launch applications
- Multi OS support (*BSD, Linux, OSX, Windows/cygwin)
- Reparenting window manager
Documentation
Click here for current man page
License
spectrwm is ISC licensed unless otherwise specified in individual files.
Screenshots
