tesla wm

tesla wm is a small and fast tiling window manager. It is a fork of dwm (thanks Anselm!).

Download the tarball teslawm-2008-04-26.tar.gz or fetch development versions via mercurial:

$ hg clone http://spuerwerk.dyndns.org/~rfigura/teslawm/cgi-bin/hgweb.cgi

Status

Hooray! The new architecture is starting to make sense! Cracking that nut took more than i expected, given the small time i have (had, will have) to avail. Uh and before i forget: Multihead support is high priority now, of course ;P

news

2004-04-26 pre release:

• improved mouse based control
• added (un)shy() functions to be used on zoom()/bury()
• added selwin() function for selecting windows by click
• added trivial remote control feature
• added handlers to be called for matching rules
• sanitized restack(), thanks yiyus!
• sanitized status text newline handling
• fixed bury() focusing wrong
• fixed view(NULL) crashing again...

2008-03-06 experimental update:

• renamed dwm-rfigura to tesla wm
• bug: config emits lots of warnings
• broke hiding of bottom position on touching bottom grip
• config.h format extended. please update your config.h
• some keymappings were sanitized
• published mercurial repository, updated website
• added configurable buttonpress handlers on client windows
• added basic grouping function: zoomtagged()
• added two informational tiling modes showing a column per tag
• added focusdown() to focus previously focused window
• fixed focus issue: shy fullscreen window now gain focus
• architecture: layout takes XRectangle wa argument
• architecture: firstclient() and nextclient() iteration functions
• architecture: basic multiple grip window support
• misc cleanup

2007-12-18 experimental update:

• implemented separation of positions for focusnext() / focusprev()
• implemented client / rule flags: SHY INITSHY INITSMALL
• improved fixed position code, made floating a position type
• improved configurability, macros for default POS, FLAGS, MIN/MAXMWFACT, -PWFACT and MINHEIGHT/WIDTH
• fixed gapless snapping: no jumping on offscreen initial position
• fixed restack issue: floating windows shouldn't get behind non-floating windows
• fixed grip placement: reacts on xrandr changes now
• fixed flicker on invisible window creation
• aclock: implemented acpi battery status (beta)
• some code cleanup and simplifications, removed warnings
• imported dwm-4.7 updates: d6d3085307d8, ddbb687cc566, 7bf680bc1473, LENGTH() macro

2007-11-15 experimental release:

• new tile mode: treetile. this one works well with lots of windows
• implemented gapless snapping for interactive positioning
• don't overwrite prevtags if seltags is the same
• fixed lens misbehaviour in combination with float geometry
• fixed restart flicker, improved restart performance
• fixed mplayer fullscreen
• aclock: added cute apm battery display
• vmenu: added a slightly modified wmii9menu and the menu.sh script
• rewritten fibtile
• removed barpos
• removed libm.so usage
• prototype for fixed window positioning feature
• prototype for grip display and event handling

2007-11-03 update:

• removed some dead code, cleaned up config.*.h and dwm.sh
• fixes: nmaster display bug, grid- and fibtile, focusing inconsistencies, ...
• a separate geometry for floating windows is stored and is not lost by temporary tiling
• better unzoom makes automagic focusing of unzoomed windows less likely

2007-10-25 release:

• fullscreen "lens" layout allows switching windows using focus keys
• configurable mouse button bindings for tag-, layout-, title- and statusbar
• the mouse button binding supports modifiers (currently only MODKEY)
• an extended tile layout which supports nmaster and rotating the directions of the stacks
• a configurable number of sticky tags are protected from changing view
• a roll() function which does something like the opposite of zoom()
• resize hinting can be configured in rules[] and reacts on client notification messages (beta)
• additional example layouts fibtile and gridtile
• a simple ascii clock program to be used for status display

objective

Good things shall always be sustained: Keep it simple. Minimize required interaction.

todo

• Unify arrangement and positioning code, multihead support
  Limit clients per stack, show hidden clients, make bar more similar to client
• experiment: Layout per client, select by zoomed client
• bug: Clients may crash when resized to small size
  Always apply size hint for minimum size?
• improve: Run-time environment
  Menu integration, install scheme
• improve: tiling with resize hinting
  Two pass seems inevitable
• improve: configuration scheme
  More flexibility, better plugin support
• More community support! wiki + mailing list

screenshots

extended tile mode

other layout features

even more tiling layouts

cheat sheet

keyboard shortcuts
==================

win-p			start program via dmenu
win-RETURN		start xterm
win-DOWN		focus down
win-UP			focus up
win-x			focus previously focused window
win-ESCAPE		close focused
win-SPACE	       	zoom focused to master area

shift-win-SPACE	        unzoom focused
win-f			cycle positioning type
win-TAB			cycle layout
win-y			view previous tagset
win-b			toggle bar display

win-+			in []E mode: add a master window
win--			in []E mode: remove a master window
win-LEFT		in []E mode: make master area smaller
win-RIGHT		in []E mode: make master area larger
win-c			in []E mode: rotate layout

win-1 ... 9		view tag 1 ... 9
strg-win-1 ... 9	toggle view tag 1...9
shift-win-1 ... 9	set tag to 1 ... 9
strg-shift-Win-1 ... 9  toggle tag 1...9

* q,w,e,r have the same meaning as 5,6,7,8.

mouse shortcuts
===============

* anywhere on the bar:
wheel-up	        focus up
wheel-down		focus down

* on a tag:
button-left		select tag to view
button-right		toggle tag visibility
button-middle		toggle tag on client
mod-button-right	zoom windows tagged with tag

* on the layout button:
button-left		cycle layout
button-right		zoom focused to master area
button-middle		toggle floating mode of focused

* on a window:
win-button-left		move window
win-button-right	resize window

other notes
===========

* clicking mouse buttons on the titlebar may open a dropdown menu.

* tags 9 ("+") and 10 ("-") are sticky which means that they can only
  be toggled and are not being turned off when any other tag is
  left-clicked.