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20 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 15 2012 $
21 .Dt SPECTRWM 1
22 .Os
23 .Sh NAME
24 .Nm spectrwm
25 .Nd window manager for X11
26 .Sh SYNOPSIS
27 .Nm spectrwm
28 .Sh DESCRIPTION
29 .Nm
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
33 configuration.
34 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
35 fast.
36 .Pp
37 When
38 .Nm
39 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
40 .Pa spectrwm.conf .
41 See the
42 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
43 section below.
44 .Pp
45 The following notation is used throughout this page:
46 .Pp
47 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
48 .It Cm M
49 Meta
50 .It Cm S
51 Shift
52 .It Aq Cm Name
53 Named key
54 .It Cm M1
55 Mouse button 1
56 .It Cm M3
57 Mouse button 3
58 .El
59 .Pp
60 .Nm
61 is very simple in its use.
62 Most of the actions are initiated via key or mouse bindings.
63 See the
64 .Sx BINDINGS
65 section below for defaults and customizations.
66 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
67 .Nm
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 .
73 .Pp
74 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
75 For example:
76 .Pp
77 .Dl color_focus = red
78 .Pp
79 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
80 .Pp
81 Colors need to be specified per the
82 .Xr XQueryColor 3
83 specification.
84 .Pp
85 Comments begin with a #. When a literal '#' is desired in an option, then it
86 must be escaped with a backslash. i.e. \e#
87 .Pp
88 The file supports the following keywords:
89 .Bl -tag -width 2m
90 .It Ic autorun
91 Launch an application in a specified workspace at start-of-day.
92 Defined in the format ws[<idx>]:application, e.g. ws[2]:xterm launches an
93 xterm in workspace 2.
94 .It Ic bar_action
95 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
96 such as battery life.
97 .It Ic bar_at_bottom
98 Place the statusbar at the bottom of each region instead of the top.
99 .It Ic bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
100 Border color of the status bar(s) in screen
101 .Ar x .
102 .It Ic bar_border_unfocus Ns Bq Ar x
103 Border color of the status bar(s) on unfocused region(s) in screen
104 .Ar x .
105 .It Ic bar_border_width
106 Set status bar border thickness in pixels.
107 Disable border by setting to 0.
108 .It Ic bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
109 Background color of the status bar(s) in screen
110 .Ar x .
111 .It Ic bar_enabled
112 Set default
113 .Ar bar_toggle
114 state; default is 1.
115 .It Ic bar_enabled_ws Ns Bq Ar x
116 Set default
117 .Ar bar_toggle_ws
118 state on workspace
119 .Ar x ;
120 default is 1.
121 .It Ic bar_font
122 Font used in the status bar. Either Xft or X Logical Font Description (XLFD)
123 may be used to specify fonts. Fallback fonts may be specified by separating
124 each font with a comma. If all entries are XLFD syntax, font set will be
125 used. If at least one entry is Xft, Xft will be used. Note that if Xft is in
126 use, only the first font that successfully loads will be used regardless of
127 missing glyphs. The default is to use font set. Also note that dmenu does
128 not support Xft fonts.
129 .Pp
130 Xft examples:
131 .Bd -literal -offset indent
132 bar_font = Terminus:style=Regular:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
133
134 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,Terminus:pixelsize=14,\
135 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
136 .Ed
137 .Pp
138 Font set examples:
139 .Bd -literal -offset indent
140 bar_font = -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
141
142 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
143 -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
144 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
145 .Ed
146 .Pp
147 To list the available fonts in your system see
148 .Xr fc-list 1
149 or
150 .Xr xlsfonts 1
151 manpages.
152 The
153 .Xr xfontsel 1
154 application can help with the XLFD setting.
155 .Pp
156 .It Ic bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
157 Color of the font in status bar in screen
158 .Ar x .
159 .It Ic bar_format
160 Set the bar_format string and overrides
161 .Ic clock_format
162 and all of the
163 .Ic enabled
164 options.
165 The format is passed through
166 .Xr strftime 3
167 before being used.
168 It may contain the following character sequences:
169 .Bl -column "Character sequence" "Replaced with" -offset indent
170 .It Sy "Character sequence" Ta Sy "Replaced with"
171 .It Li "+<" Ta "Pad with a space"
172 .It Li "+A" Ta "Output of the external script"
173 .It Li "+C" Ta "Window class (from WM_CLASS)"
174 .It Li "+D" Ta "Workspace name"
175 .It Li "+F" Ta "Floating indicator"
176 .It Li "+I" Ta "Workspace index"
177 .It Li "+M" Ta "Number of iconic (minimized) windows in workspace"
178 .It Li "+N" Ta "Screen number"
179 .It Li "+P" Ta "Window class and instance separated by a colon"
180 .It Li "+S" Ta "Stacking algorithm"
181 .It Li "+T" Ta "Window instance (from WM_CLASS)"
182 .It Li "+U" Ta "Urgency hint"
183 .It Li "+V" Ta "Program version"
184 .It Li "+W" Ta "Window name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)"
185 .It Li "++" Ta "A literal" Ql +
186 .El
187 .Pp
188 All character sequences may limit its output to a specific length, for
189 example +64A. Any characters that don't match the specification are copied
190 as-is.
191 .It Ic bar_justify
192 Justify the status bar text. Possible values are
193 .Pa left ,
194 .Pa center ,
195 and
196 .Pa right .
197 .Pp
198 Note that if the output is not
199 .Pa left
200 justified, it may not be properly aligned in some circumstances, due to the
201 white-spaces in the default static format.
202 See the
203 .Ic bar_format
204 option for more details.
205 .It Ic bind Ns Bq Ar x
206 Bind key combo to action
207 .Ar x .
208 See the
209 .Sx BINDINGS
210 section below.
211 .It Ic border_width
212 Set window border thickness in pixels.
213 Disable all borders by setting to 0.
214 .It Ic boundary_width
215 Set region containment boundary width in pixels. This is how far a window
216 must be dragged/resized beyond the region edge before it is allowed outside
217 the region. This has no effect when manipulating the window with key
218 bindings. Disable the window containment effect by setting to 0.
219 .It Ic clock_enabled
220 Enable or disable displaying the clock in the status bar.
221 Disable by setting to 0
222 so a custom clock could be used in the
223 .Pa bar_action
224 script.
225 .It Ic iconic_enabled
226 Display the number of iconic (minimized) windows in the status bar.
227 Enable by setting to 1.
228 .It Ic color_focus
229 Border color of the currently focussed window.
230 .It Ic color_unfocus
231 Border color of unfocussed windows.
232 .It Ic dialog_ratio
233 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
234 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
235 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
236 .It Ic disable_border
237 Remove border when bar is disabled and there is only one window on the
238 region.
239 .It Ic focus_close
240 Window to put focus when the focused window is closed.
241 Possible values are
242 .Pa first ,
243 .Pa next ,
244 .Pa previous
245 (default) and
246 .Pa last .
247 .Pa next
248 and
249 .Pa previous
250 are relative to the window that is closed.
251 .It Ic focus_close_wrap
252 Whether to allow the focus to jump to the last window when the first window
253 is closed or vice versa. Disable by setting to 0.
254 .It Ic focus_default
255 Window to put focus when no window has been focused. Possible values are
256 .Pa first
257 and
258 .Pa last
259 (default).
260 .It Ic focus_mode
261 Window focus behavior with respect to the mouse cursor. Possible values:
262 .Pp
263 .Bl -tag -width "default" -offset indent -compact
264 .It Cm default
265 Set window focus on border crossings caused by cursor motion and
266 window interaction.
267 .It Cm follow
268 Set window focus on all cursor border crossings, including workspace switches
269 and changes to layout.
270 .It Cm manual
271 Set window focus on window interaction only.
272 .El
273 .It Ic keyboard_mapping
274 Clear all key bindings and load new key bindings from the specified file.
275 This allows you to load pre-defined key bindings for your keyboard layout.
276 See the
277 .Sx KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
278 section below for a list of keyboard mapping files that have been provided
279 for several keyboard layouts.
280 .It Ic layout
281 Select layout to use at start-of-day. Defined in the format
282 ws[idx]:master_grow:master_add:stack_inc:layout:always_raise:stack_mode, e.g.
283 ws[2]:-4:0:1:0:horizontal sets worskspace 2 to the horizontal stack mode and
284 shrinks the master area by 4 ticks and adds one window to the stack, while
285 maintaining default floating window behavior.
286 Possible stack_mode values are
287 .Pa vertical ,
288 .Pa vertical_flip ,
289 .Pa horizontal ,
290 .Pa horizontal_flip
291 and
292 .Pa fullscreen .
293 .Pp
294 See
295 .Pa master_grow ,
296 .Pa master_shrink ,
297 .Pa master_add ,
298 .Pa master_del ,
299 .Pa stack_inc ,
300 .Pa stack_dec ,
301 and
302 .Pa always_raise
303 for more information.
304 Note that the stacking options are complicated and have side-effects. One
305 should familiarize oneself with these commands before experimenting with the
306 .Pa layout
307 option.
308 .Pp
309 This setting is not retained at restart.
310 .It Ic modkey
311 Change mod key.
312 Mod1 is generally the ALT key and Mod4 is the windows key on a PC.
313 .It Ic program Ns Bq Ar p
314 Define new action to spawn a program
315 .Ar p .
316 See the
317 .Sx PROGRAMS
318 section below.
319 .It Ic quirk Ns Bq Ar c:i:n
320 Add "quirk" for windows with class
321 .Ar c ,
322 instance
323 .Ar i
324 and name
325 .Ar n .
326 See the
327 .Sx QUIRKS
328 section below.
329 .It Ic region
330 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the
331 same space on the screen.
332 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y,
333 e.g.\& screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
334 .Pp
335 To make a region span multiple monitors, create a region big enough to cover
336 them all, e.g. screen[1]:2048x768+0+0 makes the region span two monitors with
337 1024x768 resolution sitting one next to the other.
338 .It Ic region_padding
339 Pixel width of empty space within region borders.
340 Disable by setting to 0.
341 .It Ic spawn_position
342 Position in stack to place newly spawned windows.
343 Possible values are
344 .Pa first ,
345 .Pa next ,
346 .Pa previous
347 and
348 .Pa last
349 (default).
350 .Pa next
351 and
352 .Pa previous
353 are relative to the focused window.
354 .It Ic stack_enabled
355 Enable or disable displaying the current stacking algorithm in the status
356 bar.
357 .It Ic term_width
358 Set a preferred minimum width for the terminal.
359 If this value is greater than 0,
360 .Nm
361 will attempt to adjust the font sizes in the terminal to keep the terminal
362 width above this number as the window is resized.
363 Only
364 .Xr xterm 1
365 is currently supported.
366 The
367 .Xr xterm 1
368 binary must not be setuid or setgid, which it is by default on most systems.
369 Users may need to set program[term] (see the
370 .Sx PROGRAMS
371 section) to use an alternate copy of the
372 .Xr xterm 1
373 binary without the setgid bit set.
374 .It Ic tile_gap
375 Pixel width of empty space between tiled windows. Negative values cause overlap.
376 Set this to the opposite of border_width to collapse the border between tiles.
377 Disable by setting to 0.
378 .It Ic urgent_enabled
379 Enable or disable the urgency hint indicator in the status bar.
380 Note that many terminal emulators require an explicit setting for the bell
381 character to trigger urgency on the window. In xterm, for example, one needs to
382 add the following line to
383 .Pa .Xdefaults :
384 .Bd -literal -offset indent
385 xterm.bellIsUrgent: true
386 .Ed
387 .It Ic verbose_layout
388 Enable or disable displaying the current master window count and stack column/row
389 count in the status bar.
390 Enable by setting to 1.
391 See
392 .Pa master_add ,
393 .Pa master_del ,
394 .Pa stack_inc
395 and
396 .Pa stack_dec
397 for more information.
398 .It Ic window_class_enabled
399 Enable or disable displaying the window class name (from WM_CLASS) in the
400 status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
401 .It Ic window_instance_enabled
402 Enable or disable displaying the window instance name (from WM_CLASS) in the
403 status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
404 .It Ic window_name_enabled
405 Enable or disable displaying the window display name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)
406 in the status bar. Enable by setting to 1.
407 .Pp
408 To prevent excessively large window names from pushing the remaining text off
409 the bar, it's limited to 64 characters, by default.
410 See the
411 .Ic bar_format
412 option for more details.
413 .It Ic workspace_limit
414 Set the total number of workspaces available. Minimum is 1, maximum is 22,
415 default is 10.
416 .El
417 .Sh PROGRAMS
418 .Nm
419 allows you to define custom actions to launch programs of your choice and
420 then bind them the same as with built-in actions.
421 See the
422 .Sx BINDINGS
423 section below.
424 .Pp
425 Custom programs in the configuration file are specified as follows:
426 .Pp
427 .Dl program[<action>] = <progpath> [<arg> [... <arg>]]
428 .Pp
429 .Aq action
430 is any identifier that does not conflict with a built-in action or keyword,
431 .Aq progpath
432 is the desired program, and
433 .Aq arg
434 is zero or more arguments to the program.
435 .Pp
436 Remember that when using # in your program call, it must be escaped with a
437 backslash. i.e. \e#
438 .Pp
439 The following argument variables will be substituted for values at the time the program
440 is spawned:
441 .Pp
442 .Bl -tag -width "$bar_font_color" -offset indent -compact
443 .It Cm $bar_border
444 .It Cm $bar_color
445 .It Cm $bar_font
446 .It Cm $bar_font_color
447 .It Cm $color_focus
448 .It Cm $color_unfocus
449 .It Cm $dmenu_bottom
450 -b if bar_at_bottom is enabled.
451 .It Cm $region_index
452 .It Cm $workspace_index
453 .El
454 .Pp
455 Example:
456 .Bd -literal -offset indent
457 program[ff] = /usr/local/bin/firefox http://spectrwm.org/
458 bind[ff] = Mod+Shift+b # Now M-S-b launches firefox
459 .Ed
460 .Pp
461 To cancel the previous, unbind it:
462 .Bd -literal -offset indent
463 bind[] = Mod+Shift+b
464 .Ed
465 .Pp
466 Default programs:
467 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_wind" -offset indent -compact
468 .It Cm lock
469 xlock
470 .It Cm menu
471 dmenu_run $dmenu_bottom \-fn $bar_font \-nb $bar_color \-nf $bar_font_color \-sb
472 $bar_border \-sf $bar_color
473 .It Cm term
474 xterm
475 .It Cm initscr
476 initscreen.sh # optional
477 .It Cm screenshot_all
478 screenshot.sh full # optional
479 .It Cm screenshot_wind
480 screenshot.sh window # optional
481 .El
482 .Pp
483 Note that optional default programs will not be validated unless overridden.
484 If a default program fails validation, you can resolve the exception
485 by installing the program, modifying the program call or disabling the program
486 by freeing the respective key binding.
487 .Pp
488 For example, to override
489 .Ic lock :
490 .Bd -literal -offset indent
491 program[lock] = xscreensaver-command --lock
492 .Ed
493 .Pp
494 To unbind
495 .Ic lock
496 and prevent it from being validated:
497 .Bd -literal -offset indent
498 bind[] = MOD+Shift+Delete
499 .Ed
500 .Sh BINDINGS
501 .Nm
502 provides many functions (or actions) accessed via key or mouse bindings.
503 .Pp
504 The current mouse bindings are described below:
505 .Pp
506 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
507 .It Cm M1
508 Focus window
509 .It Cm M-M1
510 Move window
511 .It Cm M-M3
512 Resize window
513 .It Cm M-S-M3
514 Resize window while maintaining it centered
515 .El
516 .Pp
517 The default key bindings are described below:
518 .Pp
519 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXXXX" -offset indent -compact
520 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
521 term
522 .It Cm M-p
523 menu
524 .It Cm M-S-q
525 quit
526 .It Cm M-q
527 restart
528 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
529 cycle_layout
530 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm \e
531 flip_layout
532 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
533 stack_reset
534 .It Cm M-h
535 master_shrink
536 .It Cm M-l
537 master_grow
538 .It Cm M-,
539 master_add
540 .It Cm M-.
541 master_del
542 .It Cm M-S-,
543 stack_inc
544 .It Cm M-S-.
545 stack_dec
546 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
547 swap_main
548 .It Xo
549 .Cm M-j ,
550 .Cm M- Ns Aq Cm TAB
551 .Xc
552 focus_next
553 .It Xo
554 .Cm M-k ,
555 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
556 .Xc
557 focus_prev
558 .It Cm M-m
559 focus_main
560 .It Cm M-S-j
561 focus_urgent
562 .It Cm M-u
563 swap_next
564 .It Cm M-S-k
565 swap_prev
566 .It Cm M-b
567 bar_toggle
568 .It Cm M-S-b
569 bar_toggle_ws
570 .It Cm M-x
571 wind_del
572 .It Cm M-S-x
573 wind_kill
574 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
575 .Pf ws_ Aq Ar 1-22
576 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
577 .Pf mvws_ Ns Aq Ar 1-22
578 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
579 .Pf rg_ Aq Ar 1-9
580 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
581 .Pf mvrg_ Aq Ar 1-9
582 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
583 ws_next
584 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
585 ws_prev
586 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Up
587 ws_next_all
588 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Down
589 ws_prev_all
590 .It Cm M-a
591 ws_next_move
592 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
593 ws_prev_move
594 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Up
595 ws_prior
596 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
597 rg_next
598 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
599 rg_prev
600 .It Cm M-s
601 screenshot_all
602 .It Cm M-S-s
603 screenshot_wind
604 .It Cm M-S-v
605 version
606 .It Cm M-t
607 float_toggle
608 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Delete
609 lock
610 .It Cm M-S-i
611 initscr
612 .It Cm M-w
613 iconify
614 .It Cm M-S-w
615 uniconify
616 .It Cm M-S-r
617 always_raise
618 .It Cm M-v
619 button2
620 .It Cm M--
621 width_shrink
622 .It Cm M-=
623 width_grow
624 .It Cm M-S--
625 height_shrink
626 .It Cm M-S-=
627 height_grow
628 .It Cm M-[
629 move_left
630 .It Cm M-]
631 move_right
632 .It Cm M-S-[
633 move_up
634 .It Cm M-S-]
635 move_down
636 .It Cm M-S-/
637 name_workspace
638 .It Cm M-/
639 search_workspace
640 .It Cm M-f
641 search_win
642 .El
643 .Pp
644 The action names and descriptions are listed below:
645 .Pp
646 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXX" -offset indent -compact
647 .It Cm term
648 Spawn a new terminal
649 (see
650 .Sx PROGRAMS
651 above).
652 .It Cm menu
653 Menu
654 (see
655 .Sx PROGRAMS
656 above).
657 .It Cm quit
658 Quit
659 .Nm .
660 .It Cm restart
661 Restart
662 .Nm .
663 .It Cm cycle_layout
664 Cycle layout.
665 .It Cm flip_layout
666 Swap the master and stacking areas.
667 .It Cm stack_reset
668 Reset layout.
669 .It Cm master_shrink
670 Shrink master area.
671 .It Cm master_grow
672 Grow master area.
673 .It Cm master_add
674 Add windows to master area.
675 .It Cm master_del
676 Remove windows from master area.
677 .It Cm stack_inc
678 Add columns/rows to stacking area.
679 .It Cm stack_dec
680 Remove columns/rows from stacking area.
681 .It Cm swap_main
682 Move current window to master area.
683 .It Cm focus_next
684 Focus next window in workspace.
685 .It Cm focus_prev
686 Focus previous window in workspace.
687 .It Cm focus_main
688 Focus on main window in workspace.
689 .It Cm focus_urgent
690 Focus on next window with the urgency hint flag set. The workspace is switched if needed.
691 .It Cm swap_next
692 Swap with next window in workspace.
693 .It Cm swap_prev
694 Swap with previous window in workspace.
695 .It Cm bar_toggle
696 Toggle overall visibility of status bars.
697 .It Cm bar_toggle_ws
698 Toggle status bar on current workspace.
699 .It Cm wind_del
700 Delete current window in workspace.
701 .It Cm wind_kill
702 Destroy current window in workspace.
703 .It Cm ws_ Ns Ar n
704 Switch to workspace
705 .Ar n ,
706 where
707 .Ar n
708 is 1 through workspace_limit.
709 .It Cm mvws_ Ns Ar n
710 Move current window to workspace
711 .Ar n ,
712 where
713 .Ar n
714 is 1 through workspace_limit.
715 .It Cm rg_ Ns Ar n
716 Focus on region
717 .Ar n ,
718 where
719 .Ar n
720 is 1 through 9.
721 .It Cm mvrg_ Ns Ar n
722 Move current window to region
723 .Ar n ,
724 where
725 .Ar n
726 is 1 through 9.
727 .It Cm ws_next
728 Switch to next workspace with a window in it.
729 .It Cm ws_prev
730 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it.
731 .It Cm ws_next_all
732 Switch to next workspace.
733 .It Cm ws_prev_all
734 Switch to previous workspace.
735 .It Cm ws_next_move
736 Switch to next workspace with the current window.
737 .It Cm ws_prev_move
738 Switch to previous workspace with the current window.
739 .It Cm ws_prior
740 Switch to last visited workspace.
741 .It Cm rg_next
742 Switch to next region.
743 .It Cm rg_prev
744 Switch to previous region.
745 .It Cm screenshot_all
746 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
747 (see
748 .Sx PROGRAMS
749 above).
750 .It Cm screenshot_wind
751 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
752 (see
753 .Sx PROGRAMS
754 above).
755 .It Cm version
756 Toggle version in status bar.
757 .It Cm float_toggle
758 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating.
759 .It Cm lock
760 Lock screen
761 (see
762 .Sx PROGRAMS
763 above).
764 .It Cm initscr
765 Reinitialize physical screens
766 (see
767 .Sx PROGRAMS
768 above).
769 .It Cm iconify
770 Minimize (unmap) currently focused window.
771 .It Cm uniconify
772 Restore (map) window returned by dmenu selection.
773 .It Cm maximize_toggle
774 Toggle maximization of focused window.
775 .It Cm always_raise
776 When set tiled windows are allowed to obscure floating windows.
777 .It Cm button2
778 Fake a middle mouse button click (mouse button 2).
779 .It Cm width_shrink
780 Shrink the width of a floating window.
781 .It Cm width_grow
782 Grow the width of a floating window.
783 .It Cm height_shrink
784 Shrink the height of a floating window.
785 .It Cm height_grow
786 Grow the height of a floating window.
787 .It Cm move_left
788 Move a floating window a step to the left.
789 .It Cm move_right
790 Move a floating window a step to the right.
791 .It Cm move_up
792 Move a floating window a step upwards.
793 .It Cm move_down
794 Move a floating window a step downwards.
795 .It Cm name_workspace
796 Name the current workspace.
797 .It Cm search_workspace
798 Search for a workspace.
799 .It Cm search_win
800 Search the windows in the current workspace.
801 .El
802 .Pp
803 Custom bindings in the configuration file are specified as follows:
804 .Pp
805 .Dl bind[<action>] = <keys>
806 .Pp
807 .Aq action
808 is one of the actions listed above (or empty to unbind) and
809 .Aq keys
810 is in the form of zero or more modifier keys
811 (MOD, Mod1, Shift, etc.) and one or more normal keys
812 (b, space, etc.), separated by "+".
813 .Pp
814 Example:
815 .Bd -literal -offset indent
816 bind[reset] = Mod4+q # bind Windows-key + q to reset
817 bind[] = Mod1+q # unbind Alt + q
818 .Ed
819 .Pp
820 To use the currently defined
821 .Ic modkey ,
822 specify MOD as the modifier key.
823 .Pp
824 Multiple key combinations may be bound to the same action.
825 .Pp
826 To bind non-latin characters such as å or π you must enter the xkb
827 character name instead of the character itself. Run xev, focus the window
828 and press the specific key and in the terminal output read the symbol name.
829 In the fallowing example for å:
830 .Bd -literal -offset indent
831 KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
832 root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 106213808, (11,5), root:(359,823),
833 state 0x0, keycode 24 (keysym 0xe5, aring), same_screen YES,
834 XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "å"
835 XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "å"
836 XFilterEvent returns: False
837 .Ed
838 .Pp
839 The xkb name is aring. In other words, in .spectrwm.conf add:
840 .Bd -literal -offset indent
841 bind[program] = MOD+aring
842 .Ed
843 .Sh KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
844 Keyboard mapping files for several keyboard layouts are listed
845 below.
846 These files can be used with the
847 .Pa keyboard_mapping
848 setting to load pre-defined key bindings for the specified
849 keyboard layout.
850 .Pp
851 .Bl -tag -width "spectrwm_XX.confXXX" -offset indent -compact
852 .It Cm spectrwm_cz.conf
853 Czech Republic keyboard layout
854 .It Cm spectrwm_es.conf
855 Spanish keyboard layout
856 .It Cm spectrwm_fr.conf
857 French keyboard layout
858 .It Cm spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
859 Swiss French keyboard layout
860 .It Cm spectrwm_se.conf
861 Swedish keyboard layout
862 .It Cm spectrwm_us.conf
863 United States keyboard layout
864 .El
865 .Sh QUIRKS
866 .Nm
867 provides "quirks" which handle windows that must be treated specially
868 in a tiling window manager, such as some dialogs and fullscreen apps.
869 .Pp
870 The default quirks are described below:
871 .Pp
872 .Bl -tag -width "OpenOffice.org N.M:VCLSalFrame<TAB>XXX" -offset indent \
873 -compact
874 .It Firefox\-bin:firefox\-bin
875 TRANSSZ
876 .It Firefox:Dialog
877 FLOAT
878 .It Gimp:gimp
879 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
880 .It MPlayer:xv
881 FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV
882 .It OpenOffice.org 2.4:VCLSalFrame
883 FLOAT
884 .It OpenOffice.org 3.1:VCLSalFrame
885 FLOAT
886 .It pcb:pcb
887 FLOAT
888 .It xine:Xine Window
889 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
890 .It xine:xine Panel
891 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
892 .It xine:xine Video Fullscreen Window
893 FULLSCREEN + FLOAT
894 .It Xitk:Xitk Combo
895 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
896 .It Xitk:Xine Window
897 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
898 .It XTerm:xterm
899 XTERM_FONTADJ
900 .El
901 .Pp
902 The quirks themselves are described below:
903 .Pp
904 .Bl -tag -width "XTERM_FONTADJ<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
905 .It FLOAT
906 This window should not be tiled, but allowed to float freely.
907 .It TRANSSZ
908 Adjusts size on transient windows that are too small using dialog_ratio
909 (see
910 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES ) .
911 .It ANYWHERE
912 Allow window to position itself, uncentered.
913 .It XTERM_FONTADJ
914 Adjust xterm fonts when resizing.
915 .It FULLSCREEN
916 Remove border to allow window to use full region size.
917 .It FOCUSPREV
918 On exit force focus on previously focused application not previous
919 application in the stack.
920 .It NOFOCUSONMAP
921 Don't change focus to the window when it first appears on the screen.
922 Has no effect when
923 .Ic focus_mode
924 is set to follow.
925 .It FOCUSONMAP_SINGLE
926 When the window first appears on the screen, change focus to the window
927 if there are no other windows on the workspace with the same WM_CLASS
928 class/instance value. Has no effect when
929 .Ic focus_mode
930 is set to follow.
931 .El
932 .Pp
933 Custom quirks in the configuration file are specified as follows:
934 .Pp
935 .Dl quirk[<class>[:<instance>[:<name>]]] = <quirk> [ + <quirk> ... ]
936 .Pp
937 .Aq class ,
938 .Aq instance
939 (optional) and
940 .Aq name
941 (optional) are patterns used to determine which window(s) the quirk(s) apply
942 and
943 .Aq quirk
944 is one of the quirks from the list above.
945 .Pp
946 Note that patterns are interpreted as POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
947 Any ':', '[' or ']' must be escaped with '\\'.
948 See
949 .Xr regex 7
950 for more information on POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
951 .Pp
952 For example:
953 .Bd -literal -offset indent
954 quirk[MPlayer] = FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV # Float all windows having a \
955 class of 'MPlayer'
956 quirk[.*] = FLOAT # Float all windows by default.
957 quirk[.*:.*:.*] = FLOAT # Same as above.
958 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT # Float all Firefox browser windows.
959 quirk[::Console] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS not set and a \
960 window name of 'Console'.
961 quirk[\\[0-9\\].*:.*:\\[\\[\\:alnum\\:\\]\\]*] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS \
962 class beginning with a number, any WM_CLASS instance and a \
963 _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME either blank or containing alphanumeric characters without spaces.
964 quirk[pcb:pcb] = NONE # remove existing quirk
965 .Ed
966 .Pp
967 You can obtain
968 .Aq class ,
969 .Aq instance
970 and
971 .Aq name
972 by running
973 .Xr xprop 1
974 and then clicking on the desired window.
975 In the following example the main window of Firefox was clicked:
976 .Bd -literal -offset indent
977 $ xprop | grep -E "^(WM_CLASS|_NET_WM_NAME|WM_NAME)"
978 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"
979 WM_NAME(STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
980 _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
981 .Ed
982 .Pp
983 Note that
984 .Xr xprop 1
985 displays WM_CLASS as:
986 .Bd -literal -offset indent
987 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "<instance>", "<class>"
988 .Ed
989 In the example above the quirk entry would be:
990 .Bd -literal -offset indent
991 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT
992 .Ed
993 .Pp
994 .Nm
995 also automatically assigns quirks to windows based on the value
996 of the window's _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property as follows:
997 .Pp
998 .Bl -tag -width "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
999 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
1000 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
1001 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR
1002 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
1003 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY
1004 FLOAT + ANYWHERE
1005 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH
1006 FLOAT
1007 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG
1008 FLOAT
1009 .El
1010 .Pp
1011 In all other cases, no automatic quirks are assigned to the window.
1012 Quirks specified in the configuration file override the automatic quirks.
1013 .Sh EWMH
1014 .Nm
1015 partially implements the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) specification.
1016 This enables controlling windows as well as
1017 .Nm
1018 itself from external scripts and programs.
1019 This is achieved by
1020 .Nm
1021 responding to certain ClientMessage events.
1022 From the terminal these events
1023 can be conveniently sent using tools such as
1024 .Xr wmctrl 1
1025 and
1026 .Xr xdotool 1 .
1027 For the
1028 actual format of these ClientMessage events, see the EWMH specification.
1029 .Pp
1030 The id of the currently focused window is stored in the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1031 property of the root window.
1032 This can be used for example to retrieve the
1033 title of the currently active window with
1034 .Xr xprop 1
1035 and
1036 .Xr grep 1 :
1037 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1038 $ WINDOWID=`xprop \-root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | grep \-o "0x.*"`
1039 $ xprop \-id $WINDOWID _NET_WM_NAME | grep \-o "\\".*\\""
1040 .Ed
1041 .Pp
1042 A window can be focused by sending a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client message
1043 to the root window.
1044 For example, using
1045 .Xr wmctrl 1
1046 to send the message
1047 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be focused):
1048 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1049 $ wmctrl \-i \-a 0x4a0000b
1050 .Ed
1051 .Pp
1052 Windows can be closed by sending a _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW client message
1053 to the root window.
1054 For example, using
1055 .Xr wmctrl 1
1056 to send the message
1057 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be closed):
1058 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1059 $ wmctrl \-i \-c 0x4a0000b
1060 .Ed
1061 .Pp
1062 Windows can be floated and un-floated by adding or removing the
1063 _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE atom from the _NET_WM_STATE property of the window.
1064 This can be achieved by sending a _NET_WM_STATE client message to the
1065 root window.
1066 For example, the following toggles the floating state of
1067 a window using
1068 .Xr wmctrl 1
1069 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window floated
1070 or un-floated):
1071 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1072 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
1073 .Ed
1074 .Pp
1075 Floating windows can also be resized and moved by sending a
1076 _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW client message to the root window.
1077 For example,
1078 using
1079 .Xr wmctrl 1
1080 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of
1081 the window to be resize/moved):
1082 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1083 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-e 0,100,50,640,480
1084 .Ed
1085 .Pp
1086 This moves the window to (100,50) and resizes it to 640x480.
1087 .Pp
1088 Any _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW events received for stacked windows are ignored.
1089 .Sh SIGNALS
1090 Sending
1091 .Nm
1092 a HUP signal will restart it.
1093 .Sh FILES
1094 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/spectrwm.confXXX" -compact
1095 .It Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf
1096 .Nm
1097 user specific settings.
1098 .It Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf
1099 .Nm
1100 global settings.
1101 .El
1102 .Sh HISTORY
1103 .Nm
1104 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
1105 .Sh AUTHORS
1106 .An -nosplit
1107 .Nm
1108 was written by:
1109 .Pp
1110 .Bl -tag -width "Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com " -offset \
1111 indent -compact
1112 .It Cm Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
1113 .It Cm Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com
1114 .It Cm Darrin Chandler Aq dwchandler@stilyagin.com
1115 .It Cm Pierre-Yves Ritschard Aq pyr@spootnik.org
1116 .It Cm Tuukka Kataja Aq stuge@xor.fi
1117 .It Cm Jason L. Wright Aq jason@thought.net
1118 .It Cm Reginald Kennedy Aq rk@rejii.com
1119 .It Cm Lawrence Teo Aq lteo@lteo.net
1120 .It Cm Tiago Cunha Aq tcunha@gmx.com
1121 .It Cm David Hill Aq dhill@mindcry.org
1122 .El