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