Mirror of stage-next
The additional features are :
Additional features.
- Tap to click support, for touchpad laptop users.
- Close window function, to close window via keybind.
- Window manipulation function via keybind.
- Move window to any direction (left, right, up, down and center).
- Resize window to any direction (left, right, up, down and half width and height of screen).
- Maximize window.
- Snap window to any direction (left, right, up, down and center).
- Pseudo minimize.
- Fullscreen window.
- launcher (wofi).
- Screencopy protokol to support screenshot.
- Primary selection protocol.
- Simple background color.
- Simple exclusive zone to place a bar / panel at right, toggleable. The only tested and working panel is lxqt-panel.
- Simple rule for a specific app_id / title, e.g for lxqt-panel.
- Screenshot via external tool (grim), for fullscreen screenshot and focused-window screenshot.
- Simple show desktop.
- Send to desktop, send all minimized windows back to desktop / surface.
- Cursor theme option, we can set the cursor theme using these envs, XCURSOR_THEME (cursor theme) and XCURSOR_SIZE (cursor size).
- Window maximizing and minimizing via decoration button.
- Support for simple virtual keyboard and virtual pointer support, allowing us to use tools that need virtual keyboard and virtual pointer support (e.g. wtype, ydotool).
- Simple popup unconstrain, works on maximized window only.
- Workspace feature, optional.
- Half_width_height function, resizing window so the window has half width and height of screen.
- Support for compilation / build using meson.
By default, The available shortcut are :
Shortcut.
- mod + enter : Open terminal (foot).
- mod + p : Open launcher (wofi).
- mod + h : maximize window vertically to left.
- mod + l : maximize window vertically to right.
- mod + f : maximize window.
- mod + shift + f : fullscreen window.
- mod + Shift + q : close / quit compositor.
- mod + q : close / kill window.
- mod + j : send window to the lowest / minimize.
- mod + k : send window to the highest position.
- mod + {left, right, up, down} : move window to left, right, up, down.
- mod + shift + {l, h, k, j} : resize window to left, right, up, down.
- mod + shift + {r, e, t, w} : move window to most left, right, up, down of the screen.
- mod + Tab : cycle window.
- mod + z : toggle exclusive zone.
- mod + w : screenshot for the focused-window.
- mod + shift + p : screenshot for fullscreen.
- mod + {0,1,2,..,9} : change focus to workspace 0 - 9.
- mod + shift + {0,1,2,..,9} : send window to desired
workspace
. - mod + shift + o : resize window so the window has half width and height of screen.
Stagen has dependency on wlroots library, check on wlroots 0.17.1. We will also make a branch which follow the latest development of wlroots.
These are steps to build, install and run.
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Adjust the setting or configuration at conf/config.h !
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Adjust the keybind / shortcut at stage.c, check at handle_keybinding function (optional) !
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Build with
meson
andninja
!$ meson setup build $ ninja -C build
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Install with
ninja -C build install
to install stagen ! -
To make screenshot work properly, run stage with this command !
$ /path/to/stage > ~/.cache/tiny_info
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Don't Forget to copy the screenshot script "misc/ss_window" to your $PATH !
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We can run stage using custom cursor theme using these envs, XCURSOR_THEME (cursor theme) and XCURSOR_SIZE (cursor size).
$ XCURSOR_THEME=your_cursor_theme XCURSOR_SIZE=cursor_size /path/to/stage > ~/.cache/tiny_info