/4wm

a tiling and floating wm

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4wm

4wm is a versatile, dynamic tiling and floating window manager with two borders. Its goal is to be versatile and simple. There are four modes: tiling, floating, monocle and video. There are four direction in which you can tile, four directions in which a window can swap with another, and four directions in which you can resize a window. Each desktop can have gaps between windows and the size can be change. Each virtual desktop has its own properties, unaffected by other desktops' or monitors' settings.

Modes

There are four modes: tiling, floating, monocle and video.

  • Tiling
    • Tiling mode has four directions it can tile: bottom, left, right, and top. In tile mode, the current window will slpit and the new window will fill the half of which direction is currently selected.
  • Monocle
    • Monocle is a fullscreen mode that respects the desktops' gaps and a screens' panel.
  • Video
    • Video is a fullscreen mode that ignores both the desktops' gaps and a screens' panel.

This is a tiling window manager, so anytime a window is created, we tile/handle/manage it. The exception to the rule is in floating mode.

  • Floating
    • In floating mode, the window will appear in the middle of the screen. You then manage it. If you drag it to a desktop that's in monocle or video mode, it'll be drawn as such.

In video and monocle mode, each window is handled like it is in the tiling mode; it only appears to be fullscreen. Meaning, the windows will be split and placed according to the current direction, the window is only drawn in fullscreen.

Panel - Statusbar

4wm does not provide a panel or statusbar. It provides a way to pipe the information to a panel or statusbar. Currently, only dzen2 is supported.

Menu - launcher

4wm provides a menu or a launcher similar to xmonad's grid select. It will use the colors from your Xdefaults for the tiles.

Installation

You need xcb and xcb-utils then, copy config.def.h as config.h and edit to suit your needs. Build and install.

$ cp config.def.h config.h
$ $EDITOR config.h
$ make
# make clean install

Notes

* Add the launch option -window to steam games.

Bugs

For any bug or request fill an issue on GitHub. Also check the TODO for your issue.

License

Licensed under MIT/X Consortium License, see LICENSE file for more copyright and license information.

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