be used for much more important stuff.
It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
any configuration.
+It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
+fast.
<p>
It was largely inspired by
<a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
and
-<a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>
-.
+<a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
support but is crippled by not being written in C.
<p>
-It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride on
+Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
+For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
+Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
+right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
+for some task one never needs.
+The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
-and it is released under the ISC
+fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
+no other purpose than to obey its masters.
+It was written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
+under the ISC
<a href="license.html">license</a>.
-Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed.<br>
+Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
+<p>
+Folowing are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
+<center>
+<a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
+Vertical stack.
+<p>
+<a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
+Horizontal stack.
+<p>
+<a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
+Horizontal stack with gvim & Firefox.
+</center>
<p>
</small>
-<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff"><font face="monospace">
+<body bgcolor="#101010" text="#ffffff"> <font face="monospace">
To-do:<br>
- click to focus<br>
- multi monitor mode<br>
+- add a few more items to the bar such as active work space, used workspaces etc.<br>
+- resize/float windows with mouse<br>
+- add search for window function<br>
</font></body>
<p>
<small>
Please read the
<a href="man.html">man pages</a>
-for a detailed explanation.
+for a more detailed explanation.
<p>
You can download the source via anoncvs at:<br>
CVSROOT=anoncvs@code.freedaemon.com:/scrotwm<br>
<p>
Eventually there will be a link here to subscribe to CVS changes.
<p>
-Copyright (c) 2008 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
+Copyright (c) 2009 Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us> & Ryan
Thomas McBride <mcbride@countersiege.com><br>
</html>
<p>
+<small>
$scrotwm$
