evilwm 1.0 by Ciaran Anscomb evilwm is a minimalist window manager for the X Window System. The name evil came from Stuart 'Stuii' Ford, who thinks that any software I use must be evil and masochistic. In reality, this window manager is clean and easy to use. FEATURES * No window decorations apart from a simple 1 pixel border. * No icons. * Good keyboard control, including repositioning and maximise toggles. * Solid window drags (compile time option - may be slow on old machines). * Virtual desktops. * Small binary size (even with everything turned on). INSTALLATION Please see the file INSTALL for details on building evilwm. STARTING EVILWM If you use a session manager from GNOME or KDE or something like that, you'll have to read its documentation to see how to set which window manager it uses. However if you're just using a standard X desktop, you can start evilwm by just changing your ~/.xinitrc file. Here's a pretty standard sample file: -----CUT HERE----- [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xsetroot -solid \#400040 -cursor_name top_left_arrow /usr/bin/evilwm & exec xclock -digital -padding 2 -g -0+0 -----CUT HERE----- Note that in this case 'xclock' is the magic process (the one that if you kill it, your session dies). You could change it around and have evilwm be your magic process if you prefer. Also note that it sets the cursor shape and background colour with standard X tools (evilwm won't do this for you - the tools already exist!). CONTROLS You can use the mouse to manipulate windows either by click/dragging the 1 pixel border, or by holding down Alt and doing so anywhere in the client window. The controls are: Button 1 Move window Button 2 Resize window Button 3 Lower window Most keyboard controls are used by holding down Control and Alt, then pressing a key. Available functions are: Return Spawn new xterm Escape Delete current window Insert Lower current window H, J, K, L Move window left, down, up or right (16 pixels) Y, U, B, N Move window to top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right of screen I Show information about current window Equals Maximise current window vertically (toggle) X Maximise current window (toggle) If compiled with virtual desktop support, these functions are also available: F Fix or unfix window (toggle its 'sticky' status) 1 - 8 Switch virtual desktop Left Previous virtual desktop Right Next virtual desktop In addition to the above, Alt+Tab can be used to cycle through windows on screen. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The original code base for this project was that of aewm by Decklin Foster. His code is very clean and, in later versions, very well commented. I'd recommend it if you want to learn more about window manager theory (or indeed want title bars, etc ;). http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/ - aewm homepage LICENCE evilwm 1.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2002 Ciaran Anscomb This is free software. You can do what you want to it, but if it breaks something, you get to pay for the counselling. The code was originally based on aewm, so this is distributed under the same terms, which follow. AEWM LICENCE Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Decklin Foster. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM. You are granted permission to copy, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of this program and any modified versions or derived works, provided that this copyright and notice are not removed or altered. Portions of the code were based on 9wm, which contains this license: > 9wm is free software, and is Copyright (c) 1994 by David Hogan. > Permission is granted to all sentient beings to use this software, > to make copies of it, and to distribute those copies, provided > that: > > (1) the copyright and licence notices are left intact > (2) the recipients are aware that it is free software > (3) any unapproved changes in functionality are either > (i) only distributed as patches > or (ii) distributed as a new program which is not called 9wm > and whose documentation gives credit where it is due > (4) the author is not held responsible for any defects > or shortcomings in the software, or damages caused by it. > > There is no warranty for this software. Have a nice day.