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   1 spectrwm
   2 ========
   3
   4 spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling and reparenting window manager for X11. It
   5 tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used
   6 for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to
   7 learn a language to do any configuration. It is written by hackers for hackers
   8 and it strives to be small, compact and fast.
   9
  10 It was largely inspired by [http://xmonad.org xmonad] and
  11 [http://dwm.suckless.org dwm]. Both are fine products but suffer from things
  12 like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome, silly defaults, asymmetrical window
  13 layout, "how hard can it be?" and good old NIH.  Nevertheless
  14 [http://dwm.suckless.org dwm] was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and
  15 code was borrowed from it. On the other hand [http://xmonad.org xmonad] has
  16 great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being
  17 written in C.
  18
  19 spectrwm is a beautiful pearl! For it too, was created by grinding irritation.
  20 Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows around until they are the
  21 right size-ish or having just about any relevant key combination being eaten
  22 for some task one never needs. The path of agony is too long to quote and in
  23 classical [http://www.openbsd.org OpenBSD] fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand
  24 new window manager was whooped up to serve no other purpose than to obey its
  25 masters. It is released under the ISC license. Patches can be accepted provided
  26 they are ISC licensed as well.
  27
  28 You can and come chat with us on IRC. We use https://www.oftc.net/ channel #spectrwm.
  29
  30 ## Major features
  31 * Dynamic RandR support (multi-head)
  32 * Navigation anywhere on all screens with either the keyboard or mouse
  33 * Customizable status bar
  34 * Human readable configuration file
  35 * Restartable without losing state
  36 * Quick launch menu
  37 * Many screen layouts possible with a few simple key strokes
  38 * Windows can be added or removed from master area
  39 * Windows can be moved to any workspace or within a region
  40 * Resizable master area
  41 * Move/resize floating windows
  42 * Drag-to-float
  43 * Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) Support
  44 * Configureable tiling
  45 * Adjustable tile gap allows for a true one pixel border.
  46 * Customizable colors and border width.
  47 * User definable regions
  48 * User definable modkey & key bindings
  49 * User definable quirk bindings
  50 * User definable key bindings to launch applications
  51 * Multi OS support (*BSD, Linux, OSX, Windows/cygwin)
  52 * Reparenting window manager
  53
  54 [https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm/wiki/Screenshots Mandatory screenshots can be found here.]
  55
  56 ## License
  57
  58 spectrwm is ISC licensed unless otherwise specified in individual files.