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   9 Welcome to Scrotwm's website.<p>
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  11 <a href="scrotwm_es.html">En Español</a>
  12 <a href="scrotwm_it.html">In Italiano</a>
  13 <a href="scrotwm_ru.html">In Russian</a>
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  16 Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
  17 It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can
  18 be used for much more important stuff.
  19 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do
  20 any configuration.
  21 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
  22 fast.
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  24 It was largely inspired by
  25 <a href="http://xmonad.org/">xmonad</a>
  26 and
  27 <a href="http://www.suckless.org/dwm/">dwm</a>.
  28 Both are fine products but suffer from things like:
  29 crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
  30 layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.
  31 Nevertheless  dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code
  32 was borrowed from it.
  33 On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama
  34 support but is crippled by not being written in C.
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  36 Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl!
  37 For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
  38 Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
  39 right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
  40 for some task one never needs.
  41 The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical
  42 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
  43 fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped up to serve
  44 no other purpose than to obey its masters.
  45 It was written by Marco Peereboom, Ryan Thomas McBride &amp; Darrin Chandler and it
  46 is released under the ISC
  47 <a href="license.html">license</a>.
  48 Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.<br>
  49 <p>
  50 Following are a few screenshots of scrotwm in action.
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  52 <a href="scrotwm.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm]"></a><br>
  53 Vertical stack.
  54 <p>
  55 <a href="scrotwm2.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm2_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm2]"></a><br>
  56 Horizontal stack.
  57 <p>
  58 <a href="scrotwm3.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm3_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm3]"></a><br>
  59 Horizontal stack with gvim &amp;Firefox.
  60 <p>
  61 <a href="scrotwm4.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm4_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm4]"></a><br>
  62 Vertical stack with floater and extra window in master area.
  63 <p>
  64 <a href="scrotwm5.jpg"><img border=0 src="scrotwm5_small.jpg" alt="[scrotwm5]"></a><br>
  65 Mplayer, resized and moved.
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  69 Major features:<br>
  70 - Dynamic xrandr &amp; xinerama support (multi screen)<br>
  71 - Navigation anywhere on all screens with either the keyboard or mouse<br>
  72 - Customizable status bar<br>
  73 - Human readable configuration file<br>
  74 - Screenshots<br>
  75 - Restartable without losing state<br>
  76 - Quick launch menu<br>
  77 - Many screen layouts possible with a few simple key strokes<br>
  78 - Windows can be added or removed from master area<br>
  79 - Windows can be moved to any workspace or within a region<br>
  80 - Resizable master area<br>
  81 - Move/resize floating windows<br>
  82 - drag-to-float<br>
  83 - User definable regions<br>
  84 - User definable modkey &amp; key bindings<br>
  85 - User definable quirk bindings<br>
  86 - User definable key bindings to launch applications<br>
  87 - Multi OS support (*BSD, Linux, <a href="osx.html">OSX</a>, <a href="cygwin.html">Windows/cygwin</a>)
  88 <br>
  89 To-do:<br>
  90 - add switch between 2 windows (like alt-tab)<br>
  91 - add search for window function<br>
  92 - add identify window function<br>
  93 - switch scrotwm from Xlib to <a href="http://xcb.freedesktop.org">XCB</a><br>
  94 - make a floating stack mechanism<br>
  95 <br>
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  97 <p>
  98 Please read the
  99 <a href="man.html">man pages</a>
 100 for a more detailed explanation.
 101 <p>
 102 All community resources are hosted by
 103 <a href="http://opensource.conformal.com">Conformal Systems</a>
 104 and can be found at:
 105 <ul>
 106   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/fluxbb/viewforum.php?id=10">Forum</a>
 107   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/flyspray/index.php?project=8">Bug tracker</a>
 108   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/scrotwm/scrotwm/">CVS web</a>
 109   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/snapshots/scrotwm/">Snapshots</a>
 110   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/mailman/listinfo/scrotwm-commits">CVS subscription</a>
 111   <li><a href="http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/Scrotwm">Wiki</a>
 112   <li>Source via anoncvs CVSROOT=anoncvs@opensource.conformal.com:/anoncvs/scrotwm
 113 </ul>
 114 <p>
 115 Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Marco Peereboom &lt;marco@peereboom.us&gt;,
 116 Ryan Thomas McBride &lt;mcbride@countersiege.com&gt; &amp;
 117 Darrin Chandler &lt;dwchandler@stilyagin.com&gt;<br>
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 120 $scrotwm$
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