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+.\"	$OpenBSD$
+.\"
+.\" The following requests are required for all man pages.
+.Dd July 10, 2004
+.Dt CWM 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm cwm
+.Nd a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.\" For a program:  program [-abc] file ...
+.Nm cwm
+.Op Fl s 
+.Op Fl f Ar fontname
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is a window manager for X11.  It was originally inspired by evilwm,
+but was rewritten from scratch due to limitations in the evilwm
+codebase.  The from-scratch rewrite borrowed some code from 9wm.
+.Nm
+contains many new features which all concentrate on the efficiency and
+transparency of window management.  
+.Nm
+also aims to maintain the most simplest and pleasant aesthetic.
+
+.Sh BASIC OPERATION
+We will adopt the following notation:
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It Fa C
+Control
+.It Fa M
+Meta (Alt on PCs)
+.It Fa S
+Shift
+.It Fa M1
+Left mouse button
+.It Fa M2
+Middle mouse button
+.It Fa M3
+Right mouse button
+.El
+
+.Nm
+is very simple in its use.  Most of the actions are initiated via
+keybindings.  The current keybindings are described below, their
+functionality is described in more detail later.
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It Fa C-M-Enter
+Spawn a new terminal.
+.It Fa C-M-Delete
+Lock the screen.
+.It Fa M-Enter
+Hide current window.
+.It Fa M-Down
+Lower current window.
+.It Fa M-Up
+Raise current window.
+.It Fa M-/
+Search for windows.
+.It Fa C-/
+Search for applications.
+.It Fa C-M-l
+Label current window.
+.It Fa M-Tab
+Cycle through currently visible windows.
+.It Fa M-S-Tab
+Reverse cycle through currently visible windows.
+.It Fa C-M-x
+Delete current window.
+.It Fa C-M-Escape
+Enter group edit mode.
+.It Fa C-M-[n]
+Select group n, where n is 1-9.
+.It Fa C-M-0
+Select all groups.
+.It Fa M-Right
+Switch to next group.
+.It Fa M-Left
+Switch to previous group.
+.It Fa C-M-=
+Toggle vertical maximization of window.
+.El
+
+The mouse bindings are also important, they are:
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It Fa M-M1
+Move a window.
+.It Fa C-M-M1
+Toggle a window's membership in the current group.  A blue highlight
+indicates the window has been added to the group, a red highlight
+indicates it has been removed.
+.It Fa M-M2
+Resize a window/Select a window.
+.It Fa M-M3
+Lower a window.
+.El
+
+The options for
+.Nm
+are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl s
+Set sticky group mode on.
+The default behavior for new windows is to not assign any group.
+This changes the default behavior to assigning the currrently selected
+group to any newly created windows.
+.It Fl f Ar fontname
+Makes the 
+.Xr Xft 3
+font string
+.Ar fontname
+the default font.
+.El
+
+.Sh SEARCH
+.Nm 
+features the ability to search for windows by their current title, old
+titles and by their label.  The priority for the search results are:
+Label, current title, old titles in reverse order and finally window
+class name.
+.Nm
+keeps a history of the 5 previous titles of a window.
+
+When searching, the leftmost character of the result list may show a
+flag:
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It Fa !
+The window is the currently focused window.
+.It Fa &
+The window is hidden.
+.El
+
+The following keybindings may be used to navigate the result list:
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It [Down] or C-s
+Select the next window in the list.
+.It [Up] or C-r
+Select the previous window in the list.
+.It C-u
+Clear the input.
+.It [Enter]
+Focus the selected window.
+.It [Esc]
+Quit.
+.It C-a
+Whenever there are no matching windows, list every window.
+.El
+
+.Sh GROUPS
+.Nm
+has the ability to group windows together, and use the groups to
+perform operations on the entire group instead of just one window.
+Currently, the only operation that is supported is to hide and unhide
+the grouped windows.  Together with the
+.Fl s
+option, this can be used to emulate virtual desktops.
+
+To edit groups, enter the group edit mode, and select/unselect the
+groups with the group selection mouse click.  A blue border will be
+shown on the currently selected windows.  The group selection keyboard
+shortcuts can also be used to change which group to edit.
+
+.Sh MENUS
+Menus are recalled by clicking the mouse on the root window:
+
+.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset -indent -compact
+.It Fa M1
+Show list of currently hidden windows.  Clicking on an item will
+unhide that window.
+.It Fa M2
+Show list of currently defined groups.  Clicking on an item will
+hide/unhide that group.
+.It Fa M3
+Show list of applications as defined in 
+.Fa ~/.calmwm .
+Clicking on an item will spawn that application.  
+.El
+
+.Sh ~/.calmwm
+
+Any directory entries here are shown in the application menu.  When it
+is selected, the image is executed with
+.Xr execve 2 .
+One use of this is to create symbolic links for your favorite
+applications in this directory using 
+.Xr ln 1 .
+
+The entries
+.Nm term
+and 
+.Nm lock
+have special meaning.  When they exist they point to the terminal
+program and screen locking programs used by the keybindings specified
+above.  The defaults for these are 
+.Xr xterm 1
+and 
+.Xr xlock 1 ,
+respectively.
+
+.Sh ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+.Nm
+contains some code from 9wm.
+
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Nm
+software has been developed by Marius Aamodt Eriksen
+.Aq marius@monkey.org 
+with contributions from Andy Adamson
+.Aq dros@monkey.org ,
+Niels Provos
+.Aq provos@monkey.org
+and Antti Nykänen
+.Aq aon@iki.fi .
+Ideas, discussion with many others.
+.\" .Sh HISTORY
+.\".Aq marius@monkey.org .
+.\" .Sh CAVEATS