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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- Ns Aq Cm Return
  85 Move current window to master area
  86 .It Xo
  87 .Cm M-j ,
  88 .Cm M- Ns Aq Cm TAB
  89 .Xc
  90 Focus next window in workspace
  91 .It Xo
  92 .Cm M-k ,
  93 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
  94 .Xc
  95 Focus previous window in workspace
  96 .It Cm M-m
  97 Focus on main window in workspace
  98 .It Cm M-S-j
  99 Swap with next window in workspace
 100 .It Cm M-S-k
 101 Swap with previous window in workspace
 102 .It Cm M-b
 103 Toggle status bar in all workspaces
 104 .It Cm M-S-x
 105 Destroy current window in workspace
 106 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar n
 107 Switch to workspace
 108 .Ar n
 109 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
 110 Move current window to workspace
 111 .Ar n
 112 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
 113 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
 114 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
 115 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
 116 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
 117 Move pointer to next region
 118 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
 119 Move pointer to previous region
 120 .It Cm M-s
 121 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
 122 .It Cm M-S-s
 123 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
 124 .It Cm M-S-v
 125 Toggle version in status bar
 126 .It Cm M-t
 127 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating
 128 .It Cm M-S Aq Cm Delete
 129 Lock scren
 130 .It Cm M1
 131 Focus window
 132 .It Cm M-M1
 133 Move window
 134 .It Cm M-M3
 135 Resize window
 136 .It Cm M-S-M3
 137 Resize window while maintaining it centered
 138 .El
 139 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
 140 .Nm
 141 first tries to open the user specific file,
 142 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
 143 If that file is unavailable,
 144 it then tries to open the global configuration file
 145 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
 146 .Pp
 147 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
 148 For example:
 149 .Pp
 150 .Dl color_focus = red
 151 .Pp
 152 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
 153 .Pp
 154 The file supports the following keywords:
 155 .Pp
 156 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
 157 .It Cm color_focus
 158 Border color of the currently focussed window.
 159 .It Cm color_unfocus
 160 Border color of unfocussed windows.
 161 .It Cm bar_enabled
 162 Enable or disable status bar.
 163 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
 164 Color of the status bar border in screen
 165 .Ar x .
 166 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
 167 Color of the status bar window in screen
 168 .Ar x .
 169 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
 170 Color of the font in status bar in screen
 171 .Ar x .
 172 .It Cm bar_font
 173 Status bar font.
 174 .It Cm bar_action
 175 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
 176 such as battery life.
 177 .It Cm bar_delay
 178 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
 179 .It Cm spawn_term
 180 External application that gets spawned when
 181 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
 182 is used.
 183 .It Cm dialog_ratio
 184 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
 185 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
 186 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
 187 .It Cm region
 188 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the same
 189 space on the screen.
 190 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y, e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
 191 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
 192 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
 193 .It Cm screenshot_app
 194 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
 195 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
 196 screenshot action is expected.
 197 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
 198 .El
 199 .Pp
 200 Colors need to be specified per the
 201 .Xr XQueryColor 3
 202 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
 203 .Xr XQueryFont 3
 204 specification.
 205 .Sh FILES
 206 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
 207 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
 208 .Nm
 209 user specific settings.
 210 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
 211 .Nm
 212 global settings.
 213 .El
 214 .Sh HISTORY
 215 .Nm
 216 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
 217 .Sh AUTHORS
 218 .An -nosplit
 219 .Pp
 220 .Nm
 221 was written by
 222 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
 223 and
 224 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
 225 .Sh BUGS
 226 Currently the menu, invoked with
 227 .Cm M-p ,
 228 depends on dmenu.