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20 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 15 2012 $
25 .Nd window manager for X11
30 is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that
31 valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.
32 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
34 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
39 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
42 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
45 The following notation is used throughout this page:
47 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
61 is very simple in its use.
62 Most of the actions are initiated via key or mouse bindings.
65 section below for defaults and customizations.
66 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
68 first tries to open the user specific file,
69 .Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf .
70 If that file is unavailable,
71 it then tries to open the global configuration file
72 .Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf .
74 The format of the file is
76 .Dl Ar keyword Li = Ar setting
82 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
84 Colors need to be specified per the
88 Comments begin with a #.
91 is desired in an option, then it must be escaped with a backslash, i.e. \e#
93 The file supports the following keywords:
96 Launch an application in a specified workspace at start-of-day.
98 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar application ,
99 e.g. ws[2]:xterm launches an
103 Note that workspace mapping is handled via
107 spawns windows via a daemon, ensure the daemon is started
112 For example, starting
116 .Bd -literal -offset indent
117 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libswmhack.so.0.0 urxvtd -q -o -f
120 Spawned programs automatically have
124 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
125 such as battery life.
127 Place the statusbar at the bottom of each region instead of the top.
128 .It Ic bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
129 Border color of the status bar(s) in screen
131 .It Ic bar_border_unfocus Ns Bq Ar x
132 Border color of the status bar(s) on unfocused region(s) in screen
134 .It Ic bar_border_width
135 Set status bar border thickness in pixels.
136 Disable border by setting to 0.
137 .It Ic bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
138 Background color of the status bar(s) in screen
144 .It Ic bar_enabled_ws Ns Bq Ar x
151 Font used in the status bar.
152 Either Xft or X Logical Font Description (XLFD) may be used to specify fonts.
153 Fallback fonts may be specified by separating each font with a comma.
154 If all entries are in XLFD syntax, font set will be used.
155 If at least one entry is Xft, Xft will be used.
156 Note that if Xft is in use, only the first font that successfully loads will
157 be used regardless of missing glyphs.
158 The default is to use font set.
161 does not support Xft fonts.
164 .Bd -literal -offset indent
165 bar_font = Terminus:style=Regular:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
167 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,Terminus:pixelsize=14,\
168 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
172 .Bd -literal -offset indent
173 bar_font = -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
175 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
176 -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
177 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
180 To list the available fonts in your system see
187 application can help with the XLFD setting.
188 .It Ic bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
189 Color of the font in status bar in screen
192 Set the bar format string, overriding
197 The format is passed through
200 It may contain the following character sequences:
201 .Bl -column "Character sequence" "Replaced with" -offset indent
202 .It Sy "Character sequence" Ta Sy "Replaced with"
203 .It Li "+<" Ta "Pad with a space"
204 .It Li "+A" Ta "Output of the external script"
205 .It Li "+C" Ta "Window class (from WM_CLASS)"
206 .It Li "+D" Ta "Workspace name"
207 .It Li "+F" Ta "Floating indicator"
208 .It Li "+I" Ta "Workspace index"
209 .It Li "+M" Ta "Number of iconic (minimized) windows in workspace"
210 .It Li "+N" Ta "Screen number"
211 .It Li "+P" Ta "Window class and instance separated by a colon"
212 .It Li "+S" Ta "Stacking algorithm"
213 .It Li "+T" Ta "Window instance (from WM_CLASS)"
214 .It Li "+U" Ta "Urgency hint"
215 .It Li "+V" Ta "Program version"
216 .It Li "+W" Ta "Window name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)"
217 .It Li "++" Ta "A literal" Ql +
220 All character sequences may limit its output to a specific length, for
222 Any characters that don't match the specification are copied as-is.
224 Justify the status bar text.
231 Note that if the output is not left justified, it may not be properly
232 aligned in some circumstances, due to the white-spaces in the default
236 option for more details.
237 .It Ic bind Ns Bq Ar x
238 Bind key combo to action
244 Set window border thickness in pixels.
245 Disable all borders by setting to 0.
246 .It Ic boundary_width
247 Set region containment boundary width in pixels.
248 This is how far a window must be dragged/resized beyond the region edge
249 before it is allowed outside the region.
250 This has no effect when manipulating the window with key bindings.
251 Disable the window containment effect by setting to 0.
253 Enable or disable displaying the clock in the status bar.
254 Disable by setting to 0
255 so a custom clock could be used in the
258 .It Ic iconic_enabled
259 Display the number of iconic (minimized) windows in the status bar.
260 Enable by setting to 1.
262 Border color of the currently focused window.
264 .It Ic color_focus_maximized
265 Border color of the currently focused, maximized window.
266 Defaults to the value of
269 Border color of unfocused windows, default is rgb:88/88/88.
270 .It Ic color_unfocus_maximized
271 Border color of unfocused, maximized windows.
272 Defaults to the value of
275 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
276 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
277 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
278 .It Ic disable_border
279 Remove border when bar is disabled and there is only one window on the
282 Window to put focus when the focused window is closed.
292 are relative to the window that is closed.
293 .It Ic focus_close_wrap
294 Whether to allow the focus to jump to the last window when the first window
295 is closed or vice versa.
296 Disable by setting to 0.
298 Window to put focus when no window has been focused.
305 Window focus behavior with respect to the mouse cursor.
308 .Bl -tag -width "default" -offset indent -compact
310 Set window focus on border crossings caused by cursor motion and
313 Set window focus on all cursor border crossings, including workspace switches
314 and changes to layout.
316 Set window focus on window interaction only.
318 .It Ic maximize_hide_bar
321 will also hide/restore the bar visibility of the affected workspace.
323 .It Ic java_workaround
324 Workaround a Java GUI rendering issue on non-reparenting window managers by
325 impersonating the LG3D window manager, written by Sun.
327 .It Ic keyboard_mapping
328 Clear all key bindings and load new key bindings from the specified file.
329 This allows you to load pre-defined key bindings for your keyboard layout.
331 .Sx KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
332 section below for a list of keyboard mapping files that have been provided
333 for several keyboard layouts.
335 Select layout to use at start-of-day.
336 Defined in the format
337 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar master_grow : Ns Ar master_add : Ns Ar stack_inc : Ns Ar always_raise : Ns Ar stack_mode ,
338 e.g. ws[2]:-4:0:1:0:horizontal sets worskspace 2 to the horizontal stack
339 mode, shrinks the master area by 4 ticks and adds one window to the
340 stack, while maintaining default floating window behavior.
361 for more information.
362 Note that the stacking options are complicated and have side-effects.
363 One should familiarize oneself with these commands before experimenting
368 This setting is not retained at restart.
371 Mod1 is generally the ALT key and Mod4 is the windows key on a PC.
373 Change mouse button used for moving windows.
374 But1 is the left, But2 is the middle and But3 is the right mouse button.
376 Change mouse button used for resizing windows.
377 But1 is the left, But2 is the middle and But3 is the right mouse button.
379 Set the name of a workspace at start-of-day.
380 Defined in the format
381 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar name ,
382 e.g. ws[1]:Console sets the name of workspace 1 to
384 .It Ic program Ns Bq Ar p
385 Define new action to spawn a program
390 .It Ic quirk Ns Bq Ar c Ns Li : Ns Ar i Ns Li : Ns Ar n
391 Add "quirk" for windows with class
401 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the
402 same space on the screen.
403 Defined in the format
404 .Li screen Ns Bo Ar idx Ns Bc : Ns Ar width Ns x Ns Ar height Ns + Ns Ar x Ns + Ns Ar y ,
405 e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
407 To make a region span multiple monitors, create a region big enough to cover
408 them all, e.g. screen[1]:2048x768+0+0 makes the region span two monitors with
409 1024x768 resolution sitting one next to the other.
410 .It Ic region_padding
411 Pixel width of empty space within region borders.
412 Disable by setting to 0.
413 .It Ic spawn_position
414 Position in stack to place newly spawned windows.
425 are relative to the focused window.
427 Enable or disable displaying the current stacking algorithm in the status
430 Set a preferred minimum width for the terminal.
431 If this value is greater than 0,
433 will attempt to adjust the font sizes in the terminal to keep the terminal
434 width above this number as the window is resized.
437 is currently supported.
440 binary must not be setuid or setgid, which it is by default on most systems.
441 Users may need to set program[term] (see the
443 section) to use an alternate copy of the
445 binary without the setgid bit set.
447 Pixel width of empty space between tiled windows.
448 Negative values cause overlap.
449 Set this to the opposite of
451 to collapse the border between tiles.
452 Disable by setting to 0.
453 .It Ic urgent_collapse
454 Enables hiding of placeholders in the urgency hint indicator for workspaces that
455 do not have any urgent windows.
456 Enable by setting to 1.
457 .It Ic urgent_enabled
458 Enable or disable the urgency hint indicator in the status bar.
459 Note that many terminal emulators require an explicit setting for the bell
460 character to trigger urgency on the window.
463 for example, one needs to add the following line to
465 .Bd -literal -offset indent
466 xterm.bellIsUrgent: true
468 .It Ic verbose_layout
469 Enable or disable displaying the current master window count and stack column/row
470 count in the status bar.
471 Enable by setting to 1.
478 for more information.
479 .It Ic window_class_enabled
480 Enable or disable displaying the window class name (from WM_CLASS) in the
482 Enable by setting to 1.
483 .It Ic window_instance_enabled
484 Enable or disable displaying the window instance name (from WM_CLASS) in the
486 Enable by setting to 1.
487 .It Ic window_name_enabled
488 Enable or disable displaying the window display name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)
490 Enable by setting to 1.
492 To prevent excessively large window names from pushing the remaining text off
493 the bar, it's limited to 64 characters, by default.
496 option for more details.
498 Centers the mouse pointer on the focused window when using key bindings to
499 change focus, switch workspaces, change regions, etc.
500 Enable by setting to 1.
501 .It Ic workspace_limit
502 Set the total number of workspaces available.
503 Minimum is 1, maximum is 22, default is 10.
507 allows you to define custom actions to launch programs of your choice and
508 then bind them the same as with built-in actions.
513 Custom programs in the configuration file are specified as follows:
515 .Dl program Ns Bo Ar action Bc = Ar progpath Op Ar arg Op Ar arg ...
518 is any identifier that does not conflict with a built-in action or keyword,
520 is the desired program, and
522 is zero or more arguments to the program.
524 Remember that when using
526 in your program call, it must be escaped with a backslash, i.e. \e#
528 The following argument variables will be substituted for values at the time the program
531 .Bl -tag -width "$bar_font_color" -offset indent -compact
535 .It Cm $bar_font_color
537 .It Cm $color_unfocus
543 .It Cm $workspace_index
547 .Bd -literal -offset indent
548 program[ff] = /usr/local/bin/firefox http://spectrwm.org/
549 bind[ff] = MOD+Shift+b # Now M-S-b launches firefox
552 To cancel the previous, unbind it:
553 .Bd -literal -offset indent
558 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_wind" -offset indent -compact
562 dmenu_run $dmenu_bottom \-fn $bar_font \-nb $bar_color \-nf $bar_font_color \-sb
563 $bar_border \-sf $bar_color
567 initscreen.sh # optional
568 .It Cm screenshot_all
569 screenshot.sh full # optional
570 .It Cm screenshot_wind
571 screenshot.sh window # optional
574 Note that optional default programs will not be validated unless overridden.
575 If a default program fails validation, you can resolve the exception
576 by installing the program, modifying the program call or disabling the program
577 by freeing the respective key binding.
579 For example, to override
581 .Bd -literal -offset indent
582 program[lock] = xscreensaver\-command \-lock
587 and prevent it from being validated:
588 .Bd -literal -offset indent
589 bind[] = MOD+Shift+Delete
593 provides many functions (or actions) accessed via key or mouse bindings.
595 The current mouse bindings are described below:
597 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
605 Resize window while maintaining it centered
608 The default key bindings are described below:
610 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXXXX" -offset indent -compact
611 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
619 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
623 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
639 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
648 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
667 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
669 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
670 .Pf mvws_ Ns Aq Ar 1-22
671 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
673 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
675 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
677 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
679 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Up
681 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Down
685 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
687 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Up
689 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
691 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
705 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Delete
743 The action names and descriptions are listed below:
745 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXX" -offset indent -compact
765 Swap the master and stacking areas.
769 Balance master/stacking area.
775 Add windows to master area.
777 Remove windows from master area.
779 Add columns/rows to stacking area.
781 Remove columns/rows from stacking area.
783 Move current window to master area.
785 Focus next window in workspace.
787 Focus previous window in workspace.
789 Focus on main window in workspace.
791 Focus on next window with the urgency hint flag set.
792 The workspace is switched if needed.
794 Swap with next window in workspace.
796 Swap with previous window in workspace.
798 Toggle overall visibility of status bars.
800 Toggle status bar on current workspace.
802 Delete current window in workspace.
804 Destroy current window in workspace.
811 .Ic workspace_limit .
813 Move current window to workspace
818 .Ic workspace_limit .
826 Move current window to region
832 Switch to next workspace with a window in it.
834 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it.
836 Switch to next workspace.
838 Switch to previous workspace.
840 Switch to next workspace with the current window.
842 Switch to previous workspace with the current window.
844 Switch to last visited workspace.
846 Switch to next region.
848 Switch to previous region.
850 Switch region to next screen.
852 Switch region to previous screen.
853 .It Cm screenshot_all
854 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
858 .It Cm screenshot_wind
859 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
864 Toggle version in status bar.
866 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating.
873 Reinitialize physical screens
878 Minimize (unmap) currently focused window.
880 Restore (map) window returned by
883 .It Cm maximize_toggle
884 Toggle maximization of focused window.
886 When set tiled windows are allowed to obscure floating windows.
888 Fake a middle mouse button click (mouse button 2).
890 Shrink the width of a floating window.
892 Grow the width of a floating window.
894 Shrink the height of a floating window.
896 Grow the height of a floating window.
898 Move a floating window a step to the left.
900 Move a floating window a step to the right.
902 Move a floating window a step upwards.
904 Move a floating window a step downwards.
905 .It Cm name_workspace
906 Name the current workspace.
907 .It Cm search_workspace
908 Search for a workspace.
910 Search the windows in the current workspace.
913 Custom bindings in the configuration file are specified as follows:
915 .Dl bind Ns Bo Ar action Bc = Ar keys
918 is one of the actions listed above (or empty to unbind) and
920 is in the form of zero or more modifier keys
921 (MOD, Mod1, Shift, etc.) and one or more normal keys
922 (b, Space, etc.), separated by
926 .Bd -literal -offset indent
927 bind[reset] = Mod4+q # bind Windows-key + q to reset
928 bind[] = Mod1+q # unbind Alt + q
931 To use the currently defined
933 specify MOD as the modifier key.
935 Multiple key combinations may be bound to the same action.
937 To bind non-latin characters such as \[oa] or \[*p] you must enter the xkb
938 character name instead of the character itself.
941 focus the window and press the specific key and in the terminal output read
943 In the following example for \[oa]:
944 .Bd -literal -offset indent
945 KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
946 root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 106213808, (11,5), root:(359,823),
947 state 0x0, keycode 24 (keysym 0xe5, aring), same_screen YES,
948 XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "\[oa]"
949 XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "\[oa]"
950 XFilterEvent returns: False
953 The xkb name is aring.
957 .Bd -literal -offset indent
958 bind[program] = MOD+aring
960 .Sh KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
961 Keyboard mapping files for several keyboard layouts are listed
963 These files can be used with the
965 setting to load pre-defined key bindings for the specified
968 .Bl -tag -width "spectrwm_XX.confXXX" -offset indent -compact
969 .It Cm spectrwm_cz.conf
970 Czech Republic keyboard layout
971 .It Cm spectrwm_es.conf
972 Spanish keyboard layout
973 .It Cm spectrwm_fr.conf
974 French keyboard layout
975 .It Cm spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
976 Swiss French keyboard layout
977 .It Cm spectrwm_se.conf
978 Swedish keyboard layout
979 .It Cm spectrwm_us.conf
980 United States keyboard layout
984 provides "quirks" which handle windows that must be treated specially
985 in a tiling window manager, such as some dialogs and fullscreen apps.
987 The default quirks are described below:
989 .Bl -tag -width "OpenOffice.org N.M:VCLSalFrame<TAB>XXX" -offset indent \
991 .It Firefox\-bin:firefox\-bin
998 FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV
999 .It OpenOffice.org 2.4:VCLSalFrame
1001 .It OpenOffice.org 3.1:VCLSalFrame
1005 .It xine:Xine Window
1009 .It xine:xine Video Fullscreen Window
1013 .It Xitk:Xine Window
1019 The quirks themselves are described below:
1021 .Bl -tag -width "XTERM_FONTADJ<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
1023 This window should not be tiled, but allowed to float freely.
1025 Adjusts size on transient windows that are too small using
1028 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES ) .
1030 Allow window to position itself, uncentered.
1034 fonts when resizing.
1036 Remove border to allow window to use full region size.
1038 On exit force focus on previously focused application not previous
1039 application in the stack.
1041 Remove from normal focus cycle (focus_prev or focus_next). The window can
1042 still be focused using search_win.
1044 Don't change focus to the window when it first appears on the screen.
1049 .It FOCUSONMAP_SINGLE
1050 When the window first appears on the screen, change focus to the window
1051 if there are no other windows on the workspace with the same WM_CLASS
1052 class/instance value.
1058 When an application requests focus on the window via a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1059 client message (source indication of 1), comply with the request.
1060 Note that a source indication of 0 (unspecified) or 2 (pager) are always
1063 Ignore the PID when determining the initial workspace for a new window.
1064 Especially useful for terminal windows that share a process.
1066 Ignore the spawn workspace when determining the initial workspace for a
1069 Force a new window to appear on workspace
1073 Custom quirks in the configuration file are specified as follows:
1075 .Dl quirk Ns Bo Ar class Ns Bo : Ns Ar instance Ns Bo : Ns Ar name Bc Bc Bc = Ar quirk Op + Ar quirk ...
1081 (optional) are patterns used to determine which window(s) the quirk(s) apply
1084 is one of the quirks from the list above.
1086 Note that patterns are interpreted as POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
1087 Any ':', '[' or ']' must be escaped with '\\'.
1090 for more information on POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
1093 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1094 quirk[MPlayer] = FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV # Float all windows having a \
1096 quirk[.*] = FLOAT # Float all windows by default.
1097 quirk[.*:.*:.*] = FLOAT # Same as above.
1098 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT # Float all Firefox browser windows.
1099 quirk[::Console] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS not set and a \
1100 window name of 'Console'.
1101 quirk[\\[0-9\\].*:.*:\\[\\[\\:alnum\\:\\]\\]*] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS \
1102 class beginning with a number, any WM_CLASS instance and a \
1103 _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME either blank or containing alphanumeric characters without spaces.
1104 quirk[pcb:pcb] = NONE # remove existing quirk
1114 and then clicking on the desired window.
1115 In the following example the main window of Firefox was clicked:
1116 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1117 $ xprop | grep \-E "^(WM_CLASS|_NET_WM_NAME|WM_NAME)"
1118 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"
1119 WM_NAME(STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
1120 _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
1125 displays WM_CLASS as:
1126 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1127 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "<instance>", "<class>"
1130 In the example above the quirk entry would be:
1131 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1132 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT
1136 also automatically assigns quirks to windows based on the value
1137 of the window's _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property as follows:
1139 .Bl -tag -width "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
1140 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
1142 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR
1144 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY
1146 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH
1148 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG
1152 In all other cases, no automatic quirks are assigned to the window.
1153 Quirks specified in the configuration file override the automatic quirks.
1156 partially implements the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) specification.
1157 This enables controlling windows as well as
1159 itself from external scripts and programs.
1162 responding to certain ClientMessage events.
1163 From the terminal these events
1164 can be conveniently sent using tools such as
1169 actual format of these ClientMessage events, see the EWMH specification.
1171 The id of the currently focused window is stored in the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1172 property of the root window.
1173 This can be used for example to retrieve the
1174 title of the currently active window with
1178 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1179 $ WINDOWID=`xprop \-root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | grep \-o "0x.*"`
1180 $ xprop \-id $WINDOWID _NET_WM_NAME | grep \-o "\\".*\\""
1183 A window can be focused by sending a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client message
1188 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be focused):
1189 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1190 $ wmctrl \-i \-a 0x4a0000b
1193 Windows can be closed by sending a _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW client message
1198 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be closed):
1199 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1200 $ wmctrl \-i \-c 0x4a0000b
1203 Windows can be floated and un-floated by adding or removing the
1204 _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE atom from the _NET_WM_STATE property of the window.
1205 This can be achieved by sending a _NET_WM_STATE client message to the
1207 For example, the following toggles the floating state of
1210 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be
1211 floated or un-floated):
1212 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1213 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
1216 Windows can also be iconified and un-iconified by substituting
1217 _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN for _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE in the previous example:
1218 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1219 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN
1222 Floating windows can also be resized and moved by sending a
1223 _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW client message to the root window.
1227 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of
1228 the window to be resize/moved):
1229 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1230 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-e 0,100,50,640,480
1233 This moves the window to (100,50) and resizes it to 640x480.
1235 Any _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW events received for stacked windows are ignored.
1239 a HUP signal will restart it.
1241 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/spectrwm.confXXX" -compact
1242 .It Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf
1244 user specific settings.
1245 .It Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf
1251 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
1257 .Bl -tag -width "Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com " -offset \
1259 .It Cm Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
1260 .It Cm Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com
1261 .It Cm Darrin Chandler Aq dwchandler@stilyagin.com
1262 .It Cm Pierre-Yves Ritschard Aq pyr@spootnik.org
1263 .It Cm Tuukka Kataja Aq stuge@xor.fi
1264 .It Cm Jason L. Wright Aq jason@thought.net
1265 .It Cm Reginald Kennedy Aq rk@rejii.com
1266 .It Cm Lawrence Teo Aq lteo@lteo.net
1267 .It Cm Tiago Cunha Aq tcunha@gmx.com
1268 .It Cm David Hill Aq dhill@mindcry.org