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authorIvan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak@gmail.com>2012-01-13 22:14:09 +0200
committerIvan Kanakarakis <ivan.kanak@gmail.com>2012-01-13 22:14:09 +0200
commit7537466246a8996e01283711c4a1a4bc0e064d53 (patch)
treead8afa13cb72e212816ce3cf673602f9925678db /monsterwm.1
parente21b5e67c299480cada3374183c1989525ffc43d (diff)
update documentation for floating mode and mouse shortcuts
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@@ -5,17 +5,13 @@ monsterwm \- minimal and dynamic tiling window manager
.B monsterwm
.RB [ \-v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
-monsterwm is a very minimal, lightweight, monsterous, tiny, dynamic tiling
-window manager. It will try to stay as small as possible. It looks a lot like
-.I dwm
-with gridlayout, bstack, pertag, dwmreturn patches builtin, but without
-floating mode(currently).
+monsterwm is a very minimal, lightweight, tiny but monsterous, dynamic tiling
+window manager with partial floating mode support. It will try to stay as small
+as possible.
.P
.SH MODES
It allows the "normal" method of tiling window managers (with the new window as
-the master) and with the new window opened at the bottom of the stack (like
-.I dwm's
-attach_aside).
+the master) and with the new window opened at the bottom of the stack
.P
.B monsterwm
three other modes available:
@@ -27,6 +23,9 @@ equally divided into a grid.
.I Monocle mode
or fullscreen mode, where the clients take up the entire workspace, and additional
clients are hidden behind the current shown window.
+.I Partial floating mode
+where, windows can move and be resized freely in the screen space, as long as no
+window is added or removed, except if that window is transient.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ prints version information to standard output, then exits.
.SS Status bar
monsterwm does not provide a status bar. Consistent with the Unix philosophy,
monsterwm provides information to the status bar or panel of choice via text.
-.SS Keyboard commands
+.SS Keyboard and mouse commands
All of
.I monsterwm's
commands can be customized by editing
@@ -106,6 +105,16 @@ is configured with four workspaces.
.B Mod1\-Shift\-F{1..n}
Move focused window to nth workspace.
.TP
+.B Mod1\-Button1
+Dragging the mouse will move the selected window
+.TP
+.B Mod1\-Button3
+Dragging the mouse will resize the selected window
+.TP
+.B Mod4\-Button3
+will bring up
+.I dmenu
+.TP
.SH CUSTOMIZATION
.I monsterwm
is customized by copying