echinus wm.
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WARNING: this project is not maintained anymore.
0.Installation
1.Configuration file
2.config.h header
3.About panels and pagers
0.Installation
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You need X11 and Xft headers to compile echinus wm and the pkg-config tool.
Packages containing this stuff are probably named libx11-dev and libxft-dev
(note "-dev" suffix). You need libxrandr for multihead support (can be
disabled in config.mk if not needed). XRandr-enabled binary still works
with single monitor configurations.
# make
# make install
On new install:
% mkdir ~/.echinus
% cp -r CONFDIR ~/.echinus
1.Configuration file
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Name: ~/.echinus/echinusrc
Main settings
Echinus*deflayout
Layout applied to tag if not explicitly set by tags.layout later.
One of: i - ifloating, f - floating, t - tiled, b - bottomstack, m - maximized.
Echinus*gap
Gap size between tiling windows in pixels.
Echinus*mwfact
Space occupied by master window in tiled layout (fraction of 1).
Echinus*nmaster
Number of clients in master area in tiled layout.
Echinus*sloppy
0 - Click to focus
1 - Sloppy focus for floating clients
2 - Sloppy focus for everything
3 - Sloppy focus + raise on focus
Echinus*modkey
Choose modkey. A for alt, W - winkey, S - shift, C - control
Title settings
Echinus*decoratetiled - boolean (1 or 0)
Draw titles in tiled mode
Echinus*titleposition
Echinus*tagbar
Echinus*tbpos
Were removed for more general interface, see below
Echinus*titlelayout - string
Titlebar consists of 3 parts separated with dashes or
spaces. Left is aligned to left, center to center and
right to right (obviously).
Default value is "N IMC" meaning name on the left
iconify, maximize and close buttons on right (note
2 spaces).
- or ' ' (space) - skip space (space can't be
used as first character)
N - window name
I - iconify
M - maximize
C - close
T - tagbar
Examples:
-T-C - title centered, close button on right
Color settings
Echinus*selected.border
Echinus*normal.border
Echinus*selected.bg
Echinus*normal.bg
Echinus*selected.fg
Echinus*normal.fg
Echinus*selected.button
Echinus*normal.button
border - color of a small border around each window
bg - titlebar background
fg - titlebar foreground
button - button foreground
normal - unfocused window
selected - window in focus
Border settings
Echinus*border
width of the border, in pixels
Button settings
Echinus*button.iconify.pixmap (was: Echinus*button.left.pixmap)
Echinus*button.maximize.pixmap (was: Echinus*button.center.pixmap)
Echinus*button.close.pixmap (was: Echinus*button.right.pixmap)
buttons in the titlebar, left iconifies window, center switch
to monocle (fullscreen) mode, right - close.
~ are not allowed in pathnames.
Opacity
Echinus*opacity
Opacity value for inactive windows, you need xcompmgr running to
see the result.
Terminal app
Echinus*command (was: Echinus*terminal)
Application to run on right window click on root window.
Title
Echinus*title
Titlebar height
Echinus*font
Titlebar font
Tags
Echinus*tags.number
Number of tags
Echinus*tags.name{...}
Names for the tags
Echinus*tags.layout{...}
Layout per tag on start. See deflayout for possible
values
Hacks
Echinus*hidebastards
Set to 1 to hide panels, pagers and others with
togglestruts function.
Keybindings
Format is "[ASCW] + key", where:
A - Alt (mod1)
S - Shift
C - Control
W - Windows key
You can find the list of available keys in keysym.h
and XF86keysym.h files (usually located in
/usr/include/X11/), remove XK_ prefix before use.
Don't miss ' ' (space).
Echinus*togglestruts
Echinus has no bar, but this binding switches the area
on top or bottom which won't be covered by windows in
tiled or monocle mode.
Echinus*togglemonitor
Switch from one monitor to another.
Echinus*focusnext
Echinus*focusprev
Focus next and previous window
Echinus*viewprevtag
View previous tag set
Echinus*quit
Leave echinus
Echinus*restart
Restart echinus
Echinus*killclient
Close window in focus
Echinus*togglefloating
Toggle floating/tiled
Echinus*view#
View tag number #
Echinus*tag#
Tag current window with tag number #
Echinus*toggleview#
Toggle view number #
Echinus*focusview#
Toggle view number # and focus the first client
from it.
Echinus*viewlefttag
Echinus*viewrighttag
View tag on the left(right) of current
Echinus*spawn#: <key> = program
Run specified program. # is less than 64.
Echinus*moveright
Echinus*moveleft
Echinus*moveup
Echinus*movedown
Syntax for this is rather untrivial: x y w h. For example move right for five pixels:
Echinus*moveright: AS + l = +5 0 0 0
Echinus*resizedecx
Echinus*resizedecy
Echinus*resizeincy
Echinus*resizeincx
Same as above, but change second group of values. Resize by y for 5 pixels:
Echinus*resizedecy: AS + v = 0 0 0 -5
Echinus*rule#
Format is "<Window class|Window title> <tag> <isfloating> <hastitle>"
2.config.h header
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Contains default values of options. You probably don't have
to edit it.
3.About panels and pagers
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Echinus supports some parts of EWMH, so if the author of the pager knows
what this magical letters mean it *should* work fine.
Known to work:
fbpanel
ipager
ourico
Known to NOT work:
pypanel