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20 .Dd $Mdocdate: February 15 2012 $
25 .Nd window manager for X11
30 is a minimalistic window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that
31 valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff.
32 It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any
34 It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and
39 starts up, it reads settings from its configuration file,
42 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES
45 The following notation is used throughout this page:
47 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
61 is very simple in its use.
62 Most of the actions are initiated via key or mouse bindings.
65 section below for defaults and customizations.
66 .Sh CONFIGURATION FILES
68 first tries to open the user specific file,
69 .Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf .
70 If that file is unavailable,
71 it then tries to open the global configuration file
72 .Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf .
74 The format of the file is
76 .Dl Ar keyword Li = Ar setting
82 Enabling or disabling an option is done by using 1 or 0 respectively.
84 Colors need to be specified per the
88 Comments begin with a #.
91 is desired in an option, then it must be escaped with a backslash, i.e. \e#
93 The file supports the following keywords:
96 Launch an application in a specified workspace at start-of-day.
98 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar application ,
99 e.g. ws[2]:xterm launches an
103 Note that workspace mapping is handled via
107 spawns windows via a daemon, ensure the daemon is started
112 For example, starting
116 .Bd -literal -offset indent
117 LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libswmhack.so.0.0 urxvtd -q -o -f
120 Spawned programs automatically have
124 External script that populates additional information in the status bar,
125 such as battery life.
127 Place the statusbar at the bottom of each region instead of the top.
128 .It Ic bar_border Ns Bq Ar x
129 Border color of the status bar(s) in screen
131 .It Ic bar_border_unfocus Ns Bq Ar x
132 Border color of the status bar(s) on unfocused region(s) in screen
134 .It Ic bar_border_width
135 Set status bar border thickness in pixels.
136 Disable border by setting to 0.
137 .It Ic bar_color Ns Bq Ar x
138 Background color of the status bar(s) in screen
144 .It Ic bar_enabled_ws Ns Bq Ar x
151 Font used in the status bar.
152 Either Xft or X Logical Font Description (XLFD) may be used to specify fonts.
153 Fallback fonts may be specified by separating each font with a comma.
154 If all entries are in XLFD syntax, font set will be used.
155 If at least one entry is Xft, Xft will be used.
156 Note that if Xft is in use, only the first font that successfully loads will
157 be used regardless of missing glyphs.
158 The default is to use font set.
161 does not support Xft fonts.
164 .Bd -literal -offset indent
165 bar_font = Terminus:style=Regular:pixelsize=14:antialias=true
167 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,Terminus:pixelsize=14,\
168 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
172 .Bd -literal -offset indent
173 bar_font = -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
175 bar_font = -*-profont-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
176 -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
177 -*-clean-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
180 To list the available fonts in your system see
187 application can help with the XLFD setting.
188 .It Ic bar_font_color Ns Bq Ar x
189 Color of the font in status bar in screen
192 Set the bar format string, overriding
197 The format is passed through
200 It may contain the following character sequences:
201 .Bl -column "Character sequence" "Replaced with" -offset indent
202 .It Sy "Character sequence" Ta Sy "Replaced with"
203 .It Li "+<" Ta "Pad with a space"
204 .It Li "+A" Ta "Output of the external script"
205 .It Li "+C" Ta "Window class (from WM_CLASS)"
206 .It Li "+D" Ta "Workspace name"
207 .It Li "+F" Ta "Floating indicator"
208 .It Li "+I" Ta "Workspace index"
209 .It Li "+M" Ta "Number of iconic (minimized) windows in workspace"
210 .It Li "+N" Ta "Screen number"
211 .It Li "+P" Ta "Window class and instance separated by a colon"
212 .It Li "+S" Ta "Stacking algorithm"
213 .It Li "+T" Ta "Window instance (from WM_CLASS)"
214 .It Li "+U" Ta "Urgency hint"
215 .It Li "+V" Ta "Program version"
216 .It Li "+W" Ta "Window name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)"
217 .It Li "++" Ta "A literal" Ql +
220 All character sequences may limit its output to a specific length, for
222 Any characters that don't match the specification are copied as-is.
224 Justify the status bar text.
231 Note that if the output is not left justified, it may not be properly
232 aligned in some circumstances, due to the white-spaces in the default
236 option for more details.
237 .It Ic bind Ns Bq Ar x
238 Bind key combo to action
244 Set window border thickness in pixels.
245 Disable all borders by setting to 0.
246 .It Ic boundary_width
247 Set region containment boundary width in pixels.
248 This is how far a window must be dragged/resized beyond the region edge
249 before it is allowed outside the region.
250 This has no effect when manipulating the window with key bindings.
251 Disable the window containment effect by setting to 0.
253 Enable or disable displaying the clock in the status bar.
254 Disable by setting to 0
255 so a custom clock could be used in the
258 .It Ic iconic_enabled
259 Display the number of iconic (minimized) windows in the status bar.
260 Enable by setting to 1.
262 Border color of the currently focused window.
264 .It Ic color_focus_maximized
265 Border color of the currently focused, maximized window.
266 Defaults to the value of
269 Border color of unfocused windows, default is rgb:88/88/88.
270 .It Ic color_unfocus_maximized
271 Border color of unfocused, maximized windows.
272 Defaults to the value of
275 Some applications have dialogue windows that are too small to be useful.
276 This ratio is the screen size to what they will be resized.
277 For example, 0.6 is 60% of the physical screen size.
278 .It Ic disable_border
279 Remove border when bar is disabled and there is only one window on the
282 Window to put focus when the focused window is closed.
292 are relative to the window that is closed.
293 .It Ic focus_close_wrap
294 Whether to allow the focus to jump to the last window when the first window
295 is closed or vice versa.
296 Disable by setting to 0.
298 Window to put focus when no window has been focused.
305 Window focus behavior with respect to the mouse cursor.
308 .Bl -tag -width "default" -offset indent -compact
310 Set window focus on border crossings caused by cursor motion and
313 Set window focus on all cursor border crossings, including workspace switches
314 and changes to layout.
316 Set window focus on window interaction only.
318 .It Ic java_workaround
319 Workaround a Java GUI rendering issue on non-reparenting window managers by
320 impersonating the LG3D window manager, written by Sun.
322 .It Ic keyboard_mapping
323 Clear all key bindings and load new key bindings from the specified file.
324 This allows you to load pre-defined key bindings for your keyboard layout.
326 .Sx KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
327 section below for a list of keyboard mapping files that have been provided
328 for several keyboard layouts.
330 Select layout to use at start-of-day.
331 Defined in the format
332 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar master_grow : Ns Ar master_add : Ns Ar stack_inc : Ns Ar always_raise : Ns Ar stack_mode ,
333 e.g. ws[2]:-4:0:1:0:horizontal sets worskspace 2 to the horizontal stack
334 mode, shrinks the master area by 4 ticks and adds one window to the
335 stack, while maintaining default floating window behavior.
356 for more information.
357 Note that the stacking options are complicated and have side-effects.
358 One should familiarize oneself with these commands before experimenting
363 This setting is not retained at restart.
366 Mod1 is generally the ALT key and Mod4 is the windows key on a PC.
368 Change mouse button used for moving windows.
369 But1 is the left, But2 is the middle and But3 is the right mouse button.
371 Change mouse button used for resizing windows.
372 But1 is the left, But2 is the middle and But3 is the right mouse button.
374 Set the name of a workspace at start-of-day.
375 Defined in the format
376 .Li ws Ns Bo Ar idx Bc : Ns Ar name ,
377 e.g. ws[1]:Console sets the name of workspace 1 to
379 .It Ic program Ns Bq Ar p
380 Define new action to spawn a program
385 .It Ic quirk Ns Bq Ar c Ns Li : Ns Ar i Ns Li : Ns Ar n
386 Add "quirk" for windows with class
396 Allocates a custom region, removing any autodetected regions which occupy the
397 same space on the screen.
398 Defined in the format
399 .Li screen Ns Bo Ar idx Ns Bc : Ns Ar width Ns x Ns Ar height Ns + Ns Ar x Ns + Ns Ar y ,
400 e.g. screen[1]:800x1200+0+0.
402 To make a region span multiple monitors, create a region big enough to cover
403 them all, e.g. screen[1]:2048x768+0+0 makes the region span two monitors with
404 1024x768 resolution sitting one next to the other.
405 .It Ic region_padding
406 Pixel width of empty space within region borders.
407 Disable by setting to 0.
408 .It Ic spawn_position
409 Position in stack to place newly spawned windows.
420 are relative to the focused window.
422 Enable or disable displaying the current stacking algorithm in the status
425 Set a preferred minimum width for the terminal.
426 If this value is greater than 0,
428 will attempt to adjust the font sizes in the terminal to keep the terminal
429 width above this number as the window is resized.
432 is currently supported.
435 binary must not be setuid or setgid, which it is by default on most systems.
436 Users may need to set program[term] (see the
438 section) to use an alternate copy of the
440 binary without the setgid bit set.
442 Pixel width of empty space between tiled windows.
443 Negative values cause overlap.
444 Set this to the opposite of
446 to collapse the border between tiles.
447 Disable by setting to 0.
448 .It Ic urgent_collapse
449 Enables hiding of placeholders in the urgency hint indicator for workspaces that
450 do not have any urgent windows.
451 Enable by setting to 1.
452 .It Ic urgent_enabled
453 Enable or disable the urgency hint indicator in the status bar.
454 Note that many terminal emulators require an explicit setting for the bell
455 character to trigger urgency on the window.
458 for example, one needs to add the following line to
460 .Bd -literal -offset indent
461 xterm.bellIsUrgent: true
463 .It Ic verbose_layout
464 Enable or disable displaying the current master window count and stack column/row
465 count in the status bar.
466 Enable by setting to 1.
473 for more information.
474 .It Ic window_class_enabled
475 Enable or disable displaying the window class name (from WM_CLASS) in the
477 Enable by setting to 1.
478 .It Ic window_instance_enabled
479 Enable or disable displaying the window instance name (from WM_CLASS) in the
481 Enable by setting to 1.
482 .It Ic window_name_enabled
483 Enable or disable displaying the window display name (from _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME)
485 Enable by setting to 1.
487 To prevent excessively large window names from pushing the remaining text off
488 the bar, it's limited to 64 characters, by default.
491 option for more details.
493 Centers the mouse pointer on the focused window when using key bindings to
494 change focus, switch workspaces, change regions, etc.
495 Enable by setting to 1.
496 .It Ic workspace_limit
497 Set the total number of workspaces available.
498 Minimum is 1, maximum is 22, default is 10.
502 allows you to define custom actions to launch programs of your choice and
503 then bind them the same as with built-in actions.
508 Custom programs in the configuration file are specified as follows:
510 .Dl program Ns Bo Ar action Bc = Ar progpath Op Ar arg Op Ar arg ...
513 is any identifier that does not conflict with a built-in action or keyword,
515 is the desired program, and
517 is zero or more arguments to the program.
519 Remember that when using
521 in your program call, it must be escaped with a backslash, i.e. \e#
523 The following argument variables will be substituted for values at the time the program
526 .Bl -tag -width "$bar_font_color" -offset indent -compact
530 .It Cm $bar_font_color
532 .It Cm $color_unfocus
538 .It Cm $workspace_index
542 .Bd -literal -offset indent
543 program[ff] = /usr/local/bin/firefox http://spectrwm.org/
544 bind[ff] = MOD+Shift+b # Now M-S-b launches firefox
547 To cancel the previous, unbind it:
548 .Bd -literal -offset indent
553 .Bl -tag -width "screenshot_wind" -offset indent -compact
557 dmenu_run $dmenu_bottom \-fn $bar_font \-nb $bar_color \-nf $bar_font_color \-sb
558 $bar_border \-sf $bar_color
562 initscreen.sh # optional
563 .It Cm screenshot_all
564 screenshot.sh full # optional
565 .It Cm screenshot_wind
566 screenshot.sh window # optional
569 Note that optional default programs will not be validated unless overridden.
570 If a default program fails validation, you can resolve the exception
571 by installing the program, modifying the program call or disabling the program
572 by freeing the respective key binding.
574 For example, to override
576 .Bd -literal -offset indent
577 program[lock] = xscreensaver\-command \-lock
582 and prevent it from being validated:
583 .Bd -literal -offset indent
584 bind[] = MOD+Shift+Delete
588 provides many functions (or actions) accessed via key or mouse bindings.
590 The current mouse bindings are described below:
592 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
600 Resize window while maintaining it centered
603 The default key bindings are described below:
605 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXXXX" -offset indent -compact
606 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Return
614 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Space
618 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Space
634 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Return
643 .Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm TAB
662 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
664 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar 1-9,0,F1-F12
665 .Pf mvws_ Ns Aq Ar 1-22
666 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
668 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Ar Keypad 1-9
670 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Right
672 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Left
674 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Up
676 .It Cm M- Ns Aq Cm Down
680 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
682 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Up
684 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Right
686 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Left
696 .It Cm M-S- Ns Aq Cm Delete
734 The action names and descriptions are listed below:
736 .Bl -tag -width "M-j, M-<TAB>XXXX" -offset indent -compact
756 Swap the master and stacking areas.
760 Balance master/stacking area.
766 Add windows to master area.
768 Remove windows from master area.
770 Add columns/rows to stacking area.
772 Remove columns/rows from stacking area.
774 Move current window to master area.
776 Focus next window in workspace.
778 Focus previous window in workspace.
780 Focus on main window in workspace.
782 Focus on next window with the urgency hint flag set.
783 The workspace is switched if needed.
785 Swap with next window in workspace.
787 Swap with previous window in workspace.
789 Toggle overall visibility of status bars.
791 Toggle status bar on current workspace.
793 Delete current window in workspace.
795 Destroy current window in workspace.
802 .Ic workspace_limit .
804 Move current window to workspace
809 .Ic workspace_limit .
817 Move current window to region
823 Switch to next workspace with a window in it.
825 Switch to previous workspace with a window in it.
827 Switch to next workspace.
829 Switch to previous workspace.
831 Switch to next workspace with the current window.
833 Switch to previous workspace with the current window.
835 Switch to last visited workspace.
837 Switch to next region.
839 Switch to previous region.
840 .It Cm screenshot_all
841 Take screenshot of entire screen (if enabled)
845 .It Cm screenshot_wind
846 Take screenshot of selected window (if enabled)
851 Toggle version in status bar.
853 Toggle focused window between tiled and floating.
860 Reinitialize physical screens
865 Minimize (unmap) currently focused window.
867 Restore (map) window returned by
870 .It Cm maximize_toggle
871 Toggle maximization of focused window.
873 When set tiled windows are allowed to obscure floating windows.
875 Fake a middle mouse button click (mouse button 2).
877 Shrink the width of a floating window.
879 Grow the width of a floating window.
881 Shrink the height of a floating window.
883 Grow the height of a floating window.
885 Move a floating window a step to the left.
887 Move a floating window a step to the right.
889 Move a floating window a step upwards.
891 Move a floating window a step downwards.
892 .It Cm name_workspace
893 Name the current workspace.
894 .It Cm search_workspace
895 Search for a workspace.
897 Search the windows in the current workspace.
900 Custom bindings in the configuration file are specified as follows:
902 .Dl bind Ns Bo Ar action Bc = Ar keys
905 is one of the actions listed above (or empty to unbind) and
907 is in the form of zero or more modifier keys
908 (MOD, Mod1, Shift, etc.) and one or more normal keys
909 (b, Space, etc.), separated by
913 .Bd -literal -offset indent
914 bind[reset] = Mod4+q # bind Windows-key + q to reset
915 bind[] = Mod1+q # unbind Alt + q
918 To use the currently defined
920 specify MOD as the modifier key.
922 Multiple key combinations may be bound to the same action.
924 To bind non-latin characters such as \[oa] or \[*p] you must enter the xkb
925 character name instead of the character itself.
928 focus the window and press the specific key and in the terminal output read
930 In the following example for \[oa]:
931 .Bd -literal -offset indent
932 KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
933 root 0x15a, subw 0x0, time 106213808, (11,5), root:(359,823),
934 state 0x0, keycode 24 (keysym 0xe5, aring), same_screen YES,
935 XLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "\[oa]"
936 XmbLookupString gives 2 bytes: (c3 a5) "\[oa]"
937 XFilterEvent returns: False
940 The xkb name is aring.
944 .Bd -literal -offset indent
945 bind[program] = MOD+aring
947 .Sh KEYBOARD MAPPING FILES
948 Keyboard mapping files for several keyboard layouts are listed
950 These files can be used with the
952 setting to load pre-defined key bindings for the specified
955 .Bl -tag -width "spectrwm_XX.confXXX" -offset indent -compact
956 .It Cm spectrwm_cz.conf
957 Czech Republic keyboard layout
958 .It Cm spectrwm_es.conf
959 Spanish keyboard layout
960 .It Cm spectrwm_fr.conf
961 French keyboard layout
962 .It Cm spectrwm_fr_ch.conf
963 Swiss French keyboard layout
964 .It Cm spectrwm_se.conf
965 Swedish keyboard layout
966 .It Cm spectrwm_us.conf
967 United States keyboard layout
971 provides "quirks" which handle windows that must be treated specially
972 in a tiling window manager, such as some dialogs and fullscreen apps.
974 The default quirks are described below:
976 .Bl -tag -width "OpenOffice.org N.M:VCLSalFrame<TAB>XXX" -offset indent \
978 .It Firefox\-bin:firefox\-bin
985 FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV
986 .It OpenOffice.org 2.4:VCLSalFrame
988 .It OpenOffice.org 3.1:VCLSalFrame
996 .It xine:xine Video Fullscreen Window
1000 .It Xitk:Xine Window
1006 The quirks themselves are described below:
1008 .Bl -tag -width "XTERM_FONTADJ<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
1010 This window should not be tiled, but allowed to float freely.
1012 Adjusts size on transient windows that are too small using
1015 .Sx CONFIGURATION FILES ) .
1017 Allow window to position itself, uncentered.
1021 fonts when resizing.
1023 Remove border to allow window to use full region size.
1025 On exit force focus on previously focused application not previous
1026 application in the stack.
1028 Don't change focus to the window when it first appears on the screen.
1033 .It FOCUSONMAP_SINGLE
1034 When the window first appears on the screen, change focus to the window
1035 if there are no other windows on the workspace with the same WM_CLASS
1036 class/instance value.
1042 When an application requests focus on the window via a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1043 client message (source indication of 1), comply with the request.
1044 Note that a source indication of 0 (unspecified) or 2 (pager) are always
1047 Ignore the PID when determining the initial workspace for a new window.
1048 Especially useful for terminal windows that share a process.
1050 Ignore the spawn workspace when determining the initial workspace for a
1053 Force a new window to appear on workspace
1057 Custom quirks in the configuration file are specified as follows:
1059 .Dl quirk Ns Bo Ar class Ns Bo : Ns Ar instance Ns Bo : Ns Ar name Bc Bc Bc = Ar quirk Op + Ar quirk ...
1065 (optional) are patterns used to determine which window(s) the quirk(s) apply
1068 is one of the quirks from the list above.
1070 Note that patterns are interpreted as POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
1071 Any ':', '[' or ']' must be escaped with '\\'.
1074 for more information on POSIX Extended Regular Expressions.
1077 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1078 quirk[MPlayer] = FLOAT + FULLSCREEN + FOCUSPREV # Float all windows having a \
1080 quirk[.*] = FLOAT # Float all windows by default.
1081 quirk[.*:.*:.*] = FLOAT # Same as above.
1082 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT # Float all Firefox browser windows.
1083 quirk[::Console] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS not set and a \
1084 window name of 'Console'.
1085 quirk[\\[0-9\\].*:.*:\\[\\[\\:alnum\\:\\]\\]*] = FLOAT # Float windows with WM_CLASS \
1086 class beginning with a number, any WM_CLASS instance and a \
1087 _NET_WM_NAME/WM_NAME either blank or containing alphanumeric characters without spaces.
1088 quirk[pcb:pcb] = NONE # remove existing quirk
1098 and then clicking on the desired window.
1099 In the following example the main window of Firefox was clicked:
1100 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1101 $ xprop | grep \-E "^(WM_CLASS|_NET_WM_NAME|WM_NAME)"
1102 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox"
1103 WM_NAME(STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
1104 _NET_WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "spectrwm - ConformalOpenSource"
1109 displays WM_CLASS as:
1110 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1111 WM_CLASS(STRING) = "<instance>", "<class>"
1114 In the example above the quirk entry would be:
1115 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1116 quirk[Firefox:Navigator] = FLOAT
1120 also automatically assigns quirks to windows based on the value
1121 of the window's _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE property as follows:
1123 .Bl -tag -width "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR<TAB>XXX" -offset indent -compact
1124 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK
1126 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_TOOLBAR
1128 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_UTILITY
1130 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_SPLASH
1132 .It _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DIALOG
1136 In all other cases, no automatic quirks are assigned to the window.
1137 Quirks specified in the configuration file override the automatic quirks.
1140 partially implements the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) specification.
1141 This enables controlling windows as well as
1143 itself from external scripts and programs.
1146 responding to certain ClientMessage events.
1147 From the terminal these events
1148 can be conveniently sent using tools such as
1153 actual format of these ClientMessage events, see the EWMH specification.
1155 The id of the currently focused window is stored in the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
1156 property of the root window.
1157 This can be used for example to retrieve the
1158 title of the currently active window with
1162 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1163 $ WINDOWID=`xprop \-root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | grep \-o "0x.*"`
1164 $ xprop \-id $WINDOWID _NET_WM_NAME | grep \-o "\\".*\\""
1167 A window can be focused by sending a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW client message
1172 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be focused):
1173 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1174 $ wmctrl \-i \-a 0x4a0000b
1177 Windows can be closed by sending a _NET_CLOSE_WINDOW client message
1182 (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be closed):
1183 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1184 $ wmctrl \-i \-c 0x4a0000b
1187 Windows can be floated and un-floated by adding or removing the
1188 _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE atom from the _NET_WM_STATE property of the window.
1189 This can be achieved by sending a _NET_WM_STATE client message to the
1191 For example, the following toggles the floating state of
1194 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of the window to be
1195 floated or un-floated):
1196 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1197 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE
1200 Windows can also be iconified and un-iconified by substituting
1201 _NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN for _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE in the previous example:
1202 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1203 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-b toggle,_NET_WM_STATE_HIDDEN
1206 Floating windows can also be resized and moved by sending a
1207 _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW client message to the root window.
1211 to send the message (assuming 0x4a0000b is the id of
1212 the window to be resize/moved):
1213 .Bd -literal -offset indent
1214 $ wmctrl \-i \-r 0x4a0000b \-e 0,100,50,640,480
1217 This moves the window to (100,50) and resizes it to 640x480.
1219 Any _NET_MOVERESIZE_WINDOW events received for stacked windows are ignored.
1223 a HUP signal will restart it.
1225 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/spectrwm.confXXX" -compact
1226 .It Pa ~/.spectrwm.conf
1228 user specific settings.
1229 .It Pa /etc/spectrwm.conf
1235 was inspired by xmonad & dwm.
1241 .Bl -tag -width "Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com " -offset \
1243 .It Cm Marco Peereboom Aq marco@peereboom.us
1244 .It Cm Ryan Thomas McBride Aq mcbride@countersiege.com
1245 .It Cm Darrin Chandler Aq dwchandler@stilyagin.com
1246 .It Cm Pierre-Yves Ritschard Aq pyr@spootnik.org
1247 .It Cm Tuukka Kataja Aq stuge@xor.fi
1248 .It Cm Jason L. Wright Aq jason@thought.net
1249 .It Cm Reginald Kennedy Aq rk@rejii.com
1250 .It Cm Lawrence Teo Aq lteo@lteo.net
1251 .It Cm Tiago Cunha Aq tcunha@gmx.com
1252 .It Cm David Hill Aq dhill@mindcry.org