orcsome-desktop-snapshot: A Python repository from nlfiasel

Orcsome is a scripting extension for NETWM compliant window managers. It can help a lot to customize your work environment.

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代码修改为Python3

功能：自动记录每一次窗口移动，使用 Mod+d 回退窗口操作， Mod+u 重做窗口操作

配置文件在 orcsome/rc.py

snapshot 脚本来自于 BlaineEXE/window-layout

注意：窗口创建与隐藏的情况处理目前不够良好，跨虚拟桌面的处理存在问题

需要 wmctrl 及 xdotool, 并且之后大概率全换成xdotool

Motivation

I'm old awesome user with two year experience. I like it not for tiling but for lua and ability to tune its behavior. But for a very long time some problems stay unsolved:

Grey swing windows. I was hoping it will be fixed in java7 but no luck.
Input focus for swing windows. Awesome treats such windows as inputless.
Random focus problems. For example sometimes evince or opera save dialog are not take focus.

Simply put, awesome sucks as window manager.

I need a robust wm with long devel history, small, fast, candy and scriptable on normal language (hello fvwm). But there are a plenty of robust, small, fast and candy only wm's. There is no any scriptable.

So I decide to write tiny wm helper application which will be compatible with many window managers and allow to configure flexible workflows.

Features

Written on python. It means very hackable.
Optimization, cpu and memory efficiency are top goals (cffi is used for xlib bindings).
Extensive use of python syntax to provide easy and expressive eDSL in configuration script.
Supports NETWM standards.
Very thin wrapper around X. You can use existing xlib background.

Installation

From PyPI

I'm regularly upload packages of new versions. So you can install orcsome with easy_install:

sudo easy_install orcsome

or pip:

sudo pip install orcsome

From source

git clone --depth=1 git://github.com/baverman/orcsome.git
cd orcsome
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

If you often pull changes from master brunch I recommend you following recipe:

First install orcsome in develop mode (remove any orcsome dirs in site-packages before that):
```
sudo python setup.py develop
```
Then, if you want use latest version from master branch simply do:
```
cd cloned/orcsome/dir
git pull
```

ArchLinux

There is orcsome package in AUR.

Documentation

Quick start

The most common functionality needed is to bind hot keys to spawn or raise applications.

Edit ~/.config/orcsome/rc.py:

from orcsome import get_wm
from orcsome.actions import *

wm = get_wm()

wm.on_key('Shift+Mod+r')(
    restart)

wm.on_key('Ctrl+Alt+p')(
    spawn_or_raise('urxvtc -name ncmpcpp -e ncmpcpp', name='ncmpcpp'))

wm.on_key('Mod+n')(
    spawn_or_raise('urxvtc -name mutt -e mutt', name='mutt'))

wm.on_key('Mod+k')(
    spawn_or_raise('urxvtc -name rtorrent -e rtorrent-screen', name='rtorrent'))

And start orcsome. That's all.

TODO

Tests
API to configure window geometry
Layouts (tiling)
Multiple screens

Contacts

You can create issues on github.

Or mail directly to bobrov at vl dot ru.

nlfiasel/orcsome-desktop-snapshot

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