https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish

Sawfish Window-Manager
https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish

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Sawfish Window-Manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish
• Owner: SawfishWM
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-03-25T08:06:52.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-20T15:31:56.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T03:42:12.088Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Common Lisp
• Size: 17.5 MB
• Stars: 160
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
This is sawfish, a highly configurable window manager for X11.

It is released under the terms of the GNU GPL, 

	copyright (c) John Harper 

Maintainer until 2007 was: John Harper

Maintainer until Dec 2008 was: Janek Kozicki 

Maintainer since Dec 2008 is: Christopher Bratusek 

For more details, see the sawfish wiki: http://sawfish.wikia.com/

Manifesto

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Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like

scripting language--all window decorations are configurable, the basic

idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled

through the Lisp language.

Despite this extensibility its policy is currently very minimal

compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows

in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does

not implement desktop backgrounds, applications docks, or other things

that may be achieved through separate applications.

All high-level wm functions are implemented in Lisp for future

extensibility or redefinition. Currently this includes menus (using

GTK+), interactive window moving and resizing, virtual desktop,

iconification, focus/transient window policies, frame theme definitions

and much more.

Also, most received events are exported to the Lisp environment through

``key-bindings'' and hooks, similar to in Emacs. These events include

pointer behaviour and many internal X11 events (enter/leave,

focus-in/focus-out, map/unmap, etc..)