Scrotwm

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Scrotwm
Software Details:
Version: 0.11.0
Upload Date: 15 Apr 15
Developer: Marco Peereboom
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 11

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

Scrotwm is a small, but dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It  tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can 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.

It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. 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. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C.

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 OpenBSD 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 & Darrin Chandler and it is released under the ISC license. Patches can be accepted provided they are ISC licensed as well.

Features:

  • Dynamic xrandr & xinerama support (multi screen)
  • Navigation anywhere on all screens with either the keyboard or mouse
  • Customizable status bar
  • Human readable configuration file
  • Screenshots
  • Restartable without losing state
  • Quick launch menu
  • Many screen layouts possible with a few simple key strokes
  • Windows can be added or removed from master area
  • Windows can be moved to any workspace or within a region
  • Resizable master area
  • Move/resize floating windows
  • drag-to-float
  • User definable regions
  • User definable modkey & key bindings
  • User definable quirk bindings
  • User definable key bindings to launch applications

What is new in this release:

  • This version adds M-f to make switching between windows in the same workspace easier.
  • Moving and resizing floating windows with the mouse is now based on click location. UTF-8 support has been added.
  • The flip layout command M-S-\ has been added.
  • Uniconify works on windows with non-ASCII titles.
  • Memory and file descriptor leaks in conf_load are plugged.
  • The missing ws_prior key binding has been added to the keyboard mapping files.
  • The response to applications when windows are not reconfigured as requested has been fixed.
  • There are many fixes to the bar display.

What is new in version 0.10.0:

  • A crash when mvws_n is used in an empty workspace was fixed.
  • Iconified windows are now skipped correctly.
  • Status bar refresh was improved.
  • Various man page fixes and improvements were incorporated.
  • Windows can now be searched in the current workspace, and workspaces can be named and searched.
  • Workspaces (empty or not) can be cycled with M- and M-.
  • Status bar text can now be be left-, center-, or right-justified.
  • Time is now also localized. stack_enable was fixed.
  • A new keyboard_mapping option loads pre-defined key bindings for different keyboard layouts.
  • Floating windows can now be moved and resized with the keyboard.

What is new in version 0.9.34:

  • Urgent handling was added and is displayed in the bar.
  • A fake middle mouse button was added for easy pasting and for use on systems with only one mouse button.

What is new in version 0.9.33:

  • A knob was added per worksapce to allow floating windows to be obscured.
  • Initial stack mode was added per worksapce in the configuration file for start-of-day.
  • Arguments were added to autorun applications.
  • The EWMH support was documented.

What is new in version 0.9.32:

  • A crash when apps don't set _NET_WM_PID was fixed and scrotwm can work around this lack to find out the PID anyway.
  • This is a critical fix and users should upgrade as soon as possible.

What is new in version 0.9.28:

  • This version fixes 2 crashes.
  • It adds the window title to the status bar option.

What is new in version 0.9.27:

  • This version adds EWMH support.
  • It fixes a bug where keyboard strokes were no longer accepted.

What is new in version 0.9.25:

  • This release makes NVIDIA xrandr work.
  • It has a new signal handler; SIGHUP now restarts the wm.
  • Borderless support has been added.
  • Floaters remember their locations.
  • Prior workspace action has been added.
  • There are several bugfixes.

Screenshots

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