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   9 Welcome to Scrotwm's website.<p>
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  11 Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
  12 It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can
  13 be used for much more important stuff.
  14 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
  15 any configuration.
  16 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
  17 fast.
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  19 It was largely inspired by
  20 <a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
  21 and
  22 <a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
  23 Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
  24 crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
  25 layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
  26 Nevertheless  dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code
  27 was borrowed from it.
  28 On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
  29 support but is crippled by not being written in C.
  30 <p>
  31 Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
  32 For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
  33 Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
  34 right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
  35 for some task one never needs.
  36 The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
  37 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
  38 fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
  39 no other purpose than to obey its masters.
  40 It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
  41 under the ISC
  42 <a href="license.html">license</a>.
  43 Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
  44 <p>
  45 Following are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
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  47 <a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
  48 Vertical stack.
  49 <p>
  50 <a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
  51 Horizontal stack.
  52 <p>
  53 <a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
  54 Horizontal stack with gvim & Firefox.
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  59 To-do:<br>
  60 - resize/float windows with mouse<br>
  61 - add search for window function<br>
  62 - add identify window function<br>
  63 - add switch physical screen keys<br>
  64 - add screen shot action
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  66 <p>
  67 <small>
  68 Please read the
  69 <a href="man.html">man pages</a>
  70 for a more detailed explanation.
  71 <p>
  72 You can download the source via anoncvs at:<br>
  73 CVSROOT=anoncvs@code.freedaemon.com:/scrotwm<br>
  74 <p>
  75 Eventually there will be a link here to subscribe to CVS changes.
  76 <p>
  77 Copyright (c) 2009 Marco Peereboom &lt;marco@peereboom.us&gt; & Ryan
  78 Thomas McBride &lt;mcbride@countersiege.com&gt;<br>
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  82 $scrotwm$