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

You can also browse the repository online

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:

2008-03-06 experimental update:

2007-12-18 experimental update:

2007-11-15 experimental release:

2007-11-03 update:

2007-10-25 release:

objective

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

todo

screenshots

extended tile mode

other layout features

even more tiling layouts



cheat sheet

keyboard shortcuts
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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
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* 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
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* 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.