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@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ monsterwm ---------------------- **monsterwm** is a minimal, lightweight, tiny but monsterous dynamic tiling window manager. -It will try to stay as small as possible. Currently under 700 lines with the config file included. -It provides a set of different layout modes (see below), but has no floating mode support yet. +It will try to stay as small as possible. Currently under 750 lines with the config file included. +It provides a set of different layout modes (see below), and has partial floating mode support. Each virtual desktop has its own properties, unaffected by other desktops' settings. For screenshots and ramblings/updates check the [topic on ArchLinux forums][monsterwm]. @@ -67,7 +67,22 @@ opening the window at the bottom of the stack (attach\_aside) --- -All accessible with keyboard shortcuts defined in the config.h file. + *partial floating mode* + + ------------- + | | | + |--' .---. | + | | | | + | | | | + ------`---'-- + + _Partial_ floating mode means that one can freely move and resize windows, but + the windows will revert to their tiling mode position once a window is added or + removed, and that window is not transient. + +--- + +All accessible with keyboard and mouse shortcuts are defined in the config.h file. * The window W at the top of the stack can be resized on a per desktop basis. * Changing a tiling mode or window size on one desktop doesn't affect the other desktops. diff --git a/monsterwm.1 b/monsterwm.1 index fcad4a2..efbd7a9 100644 --- a/monsterwm.1 +++ b/monsterwm.1 @@ -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 |