Subtle application is a another tiling window manager with a slightly different approach to place the windows, in contrast to other tiling window managers like Wmii or Ion. The placement in subtle is done by tiling windows which arrange every child-window either in a horizontal or a vertical manner. Client or even tiling windows can be moved/dragged into a tile and will be arranged according to the tile type. Every window can be swapped too and shaded inside of it’s parent tile. (view)
This behaviour is mostly inspired by Wily, an emulation of ACME – the well-known Plan9 “editor”.
Configuration and theming is done with the help of Lua. Furthermore there is an extendable “statusbar” attached to the main tile. Sublets, small Lua scripts, provide features like a customizable clock or even a small progressbar for the battery capacity of a notebook.
The initial code was based on Aewm, but is meanwhile completely re-written.
Simplicty and flexibility are the goals of this project – besides not to be bloated of course. Controlling can be done either with the mouse or the keyboard – just as the user prefers.
What is new in this release:
- This version contains three major changes along with many bugfixes.
- The color configuration has been replaced with an extensive styling system.
- The stacking has been rewritten to keep the respective levels of the windows.
- The gravity calculation uses proper percentage for x/y positions now.
What is new in version 0.9.2773:
- This release includes minor bug fixes, updated handling of grabs in sublets, double buffering and improved stippling for panels and emacs-style keychains.
What is new in version 0.9.2571:
- This version contains major rewrites and fixes of various parts like handling of close/destroy events, EWMH states, and size hints.
- Colors have been cleaned up, and icons are now possible either in the panel as standalone, in view buttons, or as sole view buttons.
- On multihead, XRandR is now the default and xinerama is only used if XRandR doesn't work or has been disabled via the command line. (for NVIDIA).
- There were only subtle changes in subtlext and small changes of the output of the list and config command in sur.
- For debugging purposes, subtle uses message levels now.
What is new in version 0.9.2278:
- This version contains major changes like new screen handling to display a view per screen, updated colors, and improved API, along with many bugfixes.
- Also included is sur (subtle user repository) and a set of unit tests for subtlext based on riot.
What is new in version 0.9.2109:
- Many bufgixes and a new DSL for the config file.
Requirements:
- Lua
- X11
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