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.Dd July 10, 2004
.Dt CWM 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm cwm
.Nd a lightweight and efficient window manager for X11
.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.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:

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.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.

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.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:

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.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:
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.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:

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.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:

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.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:

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.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.
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