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  17 .Dd $Mdocdate$
  18 .Dt SCROTWM 1
  19 .Os
  20 .Sh NAME
  21 .Nm scrotwm
  22 .Nd window manager for X11
  23 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  24 .Nm scrotwm
  25 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  26 .Nm
  27 is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that
  28 valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.
  29 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
  30 configuration.
  31 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
  32 fast.
  33 .Pp
  34 When
  35 .Nm
  36 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
  37 .Pa scrotwm.conf .
  38 See the
  39 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
  40 section below.
  41 .Pp
  42 The following notation is used throughout this page:
  43 .Pp
  44 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
  45 .It Cm M
  46 Meta
  47 .It Cm S
  48 Shift
  49 .It Aq Cm Name
  50 Named key
  51 .It Cm M1
  52 Mouse button 1
  53 .It Cm M3
  54 Mouse button 3
  55 .El
  56 .Pp
  57 .Nm
  58 is very simple in its use.
  59 Most of the actions are initiated via keybindings.
  60 The current keybindings are described below:
  61 .Pp
  62 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
  63 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
  64 Spawn a new terminal
  65 .It Cm M-p
  66 Menu
  67 .It Cm M-S-q
  68 Quit
  69 .It Cm M-q
  70 Restart
  71 .Nm
  72 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
  73 Cycle layout
  74 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
  75 Reset layout
  76 .It Cm M-h
  77 Shrink master area
  78 .It Cm M-l
  79 Grow master area
  80 .It Cm M-,
  81 Add windows to master area
  82 .It Cm M-.
  83 Remove windows from master area
  84 .It Cm M-S-,
  85 Add columns/rows to stacking area
  86 .It Cm M-S-.
  87 Remove columns/rows from stacking area
  88 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
  89 Move current window to master area
  90 .It Xo
  91 .Cm M-j ,
  92 .Cm M- Ns Aq Cm TAB
  93 .Xc
  94 Focus next window in workspace
  95 .It Xo
  96 .Cm M-k ,
  97 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
  98 .Xc
  99 Focus previous window in workspace
 100 .It Cm M-m
 101 Focus on main window in workspace
 102 .It Cm M-S-j
 103 Swap with next window in workspace
 104 .It Cm M-S-k
 105 Swap with previous window in workspace
 106 .It Cm M-b
 107 Toggle status bar in all workspaces
 108 .It Cm M-S-x
 109 Destroy current window in workspace
 110 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar n
 111 Switch to workspace
 112 .Ar n
 113 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
 114 Move current window to workspace
 115 .Ar n
 116 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
 117 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
 118 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
 119 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
 120 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
 121 Move pointer to next region
 122 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
 123 Move pointer to previous region
 124 .It Cm M-s
 125 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
 126 .It Cm M-S-s
 127 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
 128 .It Cm M-S-v
 129 Toggle version in status bar
 130 .It Cm M-t
 131 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating
 132 .It Cm M-S Aq Cm Delete
 133 Lock scren
 134 .It Cm M1
 135 Focus window
 136 .It Cm M-M1
 137 Move window
 138 .It Cm M-M3
 139 Resize window
 140 .It Cm M-S-M3
 141 Resize window while maintaining it centered
 142 .El
 143 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
 144 .Nm
 145 first tries to open the user specific file,
 146 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
 147 If that file is unavailable,
 148 it then tries to open the global configuration file
 149 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
 150 .Pp
 151 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
 152 For example:
 153 .Pp
 154 .Dl color_focus = red
 155 .Pp
 156 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
 157 .Pp
 158 The file supports the following keywords:
 159 .Pp
 160 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
 161 .It Cm color_focus
 162 Border color of the currently focussed window.
 163 .It Cm color_unfocus
 164 Border color of unfocussed windows.
 165 .It Cm bar_enabled
 166 Enable or disable status bar.
 167 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
 168 Color of the status bar border in screen
 169 .Ar x .
 170 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
 171 Color of the status bar window in screen
 172 .Ar x .
 173 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
 174 Color of the font in status bar in screen
 175 .Ar x .
 176 .It Cm bar_font
 177 Status bar font.
 178 .It Cm bar_action
 179 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
 180 such as battery life.
 181 .It Cm bar_delay
 182 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
 183 .It Cm spawn_term
 184 External application that gets spawned when
 185 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
 186 is used.
 187 .It Cm dialog_ratio
 188 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
 189 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
 190 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
 191 .It Cm region
 192 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the same
 193 space on the screen.
 194 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y, e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
 195 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
 196 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
 197 .It Cm screenshot_app
 198 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
 199 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
 200 screenshot action is expected.
 201 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
 202 .El
 203 .Pp
 204 Colors need to be specified per the
 205 .Xr XQueryColor 3
 206 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
 207 .Xr XQueryFont 3
 208 specification.
 209 .Sh FILES
 210 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
 211 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
 212 .Nm
 213 user specific settings.
 214 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
 215 .Nm
 216 global settings.
 217 .El
 218 .Sh HISTORY
 219 .Nm
 220 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
 221 .Sh AUTHORS
 222 .An -nosplit
 223 .Pp
 224 .Nm
 225 was written by
 226 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
 227 and
 228 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
 229 .Sh BUGS
 230 Currently the menu, invoked with
 231 .Cm M-p ,
 232 depends on dmenu.