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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-x
 109 Delete current window in workspace
 110 .It Cm M-S-x
 111 Destroy current window in workspace
 112 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar n
 113 Switch to workspace
 114 .Ar n
 115 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar n
 116 Move current window to workspace
 117 .Ar n
 118 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
 119 Switch to next workspace with a window in it
 120 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
 121 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it
 122 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
 123 Move pointer to next region
 124 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
 125 Move pointer to previous region
 126 .It Cm M-s
 127 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
 128 .It Cm M-S-s
 129 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
 130 .It Cm M-S-v
 131 Toggle version in status bar
 132 .It Cm M-t
 133 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating
 134 .It Cm M-S Aq Cm Delete
 135 Lock scren
 136 .It Cm M-S-i
 137 Reinitialize physical screens
 138 .It Cm M1
 139 Focus window
 140 .It Cm M-M1
 141 Move window
 142 .It Cm M-M3
 143 Resize window
 144 .It Cm M-S-M3
 145 Resize window while maintaining it centered
 146 .El
 147 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
 148 .Nm
 149 first tries to open the user specific file,
 150 .Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf .
 151 If that file is unavailable,
 152 it then tries to open the global configuration file
 153 .Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf .
 154 .Pp
 155 The format of the file is \*(Ltkeyword\*(Gt = \*(Ltsetting\*(Gt.
 156 For example:
 157 .Pp
 158 .Dl color_focus = red
 159 .Pp
 160 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
 161 .Pp
 162 The file supports the following keywords:
 163 .Pp
 164 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_enabledXXX" -offset indent -compact
 165 .It Cm color_focus
 166 Border color of the currently focussed window.
 167 .It Cm color_unfocus
 168 Border color of unfocussed windows.
 169 .It Cm bar_enabled
 170 Enable or disable status bar.
 171 .It Cm bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
 172 Color of the status bar border in screen
 173 .Ar x .
 174 .It Cm bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
 175 Color of the status bar window in screen
 176 .Ar x .
 177 .It Cm bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
 178 Color of the font in status bar in screen
 179 .Ar x .
 180 .It Cm bar_font
 181 Status bar font.
 182 .It Cm bar_action
 183 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
 184 such as battery life.
 185 .It Cm bar_delay
 186 Update frequency, in seconds, of external script that populates the status bar.
 187 .It Cm spawn_term
 188 External application that gets spawned when
 189 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
 190 is used.
 191 .It Cm dialog_ratio
 192 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
 193 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
 194 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
 195 .It Cm region
 196 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the same
 197 space on the screen.
 198 Defined in the format screen[<idx>]:WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y, e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
 199 .It Cm screenshot_enabled
 200 Enable or disable screenshot capability.
 201 .It Cm screenshot_app
 202 Set to the script that will take screenshots.
 203 It will be called with "full" or "window" as parameter 1 to indicate what
 204 screenshot action is expected.
 205 The script shall handle those cases accordingly.
 206 .It Cm term_width
 207 Set a preferred minimum width for the terminal
 208 If this value is greater than 0,
 209 .Nm
 210 will attempt to adjust the font sizes in the terminal to keep the terminal
 211 width above this number as the window is resized.
 212 Only
 213 .Xr xterm 1
 214 is currently supported.
 215 The
 216 .Xr xterm 1
 217 binary must not be setuid or setgid, which it is by default on most systems.
 218 Users may need to set spawn term to use an alternate copy of the
 219 .Xr xterm 1
 220 binary without the setgid bit set.
 221 .It Cm modkey
 222 Change mod key.
 223 Mod1 is generally the ALT key and Mod4 is the windows key on a PC.
 224 .El
 225 .Pp
 226 Colors need to be specified per the
 227 .Xr XQueryColor 3
 228 specification and fonts need to be specified per the
 229 .Xr XQueryFont 3
 230 specification.
 231 .Sh FILES
 232 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/scrotwm.confXXX" -compact
 233 .It Pa ~/.scrotwm.conf
 234 .Nm
 235 user specific settings.
 236 .It Pa /etc/scrotwm.conf
 237 .Nm
 238 global settings.
 239 .El
 240 .Sh HISTORY
 241 .Nm
 242 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
 243 .Sh AUTHORS
 244 .An -nosplit
 245 .Pp
 246 .Nm
 247 was written by
 248 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
 249 and
 250 .An Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com .
 251 .Sh BUGS
 252 Currently the menu, invoked with
 253 .Cm M-p ,
 254 depends on dmenu.