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* Designed for wide screens, including multi-head support.
* Static tiling; you get just three fixed tiles and windows never move automatically.
* Bare minimum EWMH to support panels and [simpleswitcher](https://github.com/seanpringle/simpleswitcher)
* Bare minimum EWMH to support panels and [simpleswitcher](https://github.com/seanpringle/simpleswitcher).
* A few keyboard controls for moving, focusing, cycling, closing, and finding windows.
* Transient windows and dialogs are centered on parent, not tiled.
* Splash screens and notification popups are displayed as requested, not tiled.
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### The Layout
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* Layout can be flipped horizontally to place tile 1 on the right.
* Layout rotates along with Xrandr rotated monitors.
### Philosophy
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2. Medium monitoring-something apps
3. Small background-chat-music apps
4. Apps people should not use ;-)
* Want more tiles? Buy more monitors.
* Keyboard controls generally preferred over the mouse, when practical.
* Faster. Muscle memory.
* Click-to-focus model preferred over focus-follows-mouse.
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* CtF is harder to get wrong and makes it easy to forget about the mouse for some tasks.
* 2/3 is a nice fraction.
### Stuff Removed
Some elements that proved to be the wrong direction for xoat have been removed.
* Tags have been replaced with the snapshot/rollback mechanism.
* Tags were a way to group and raise windows en-masse, but they were fiddly to use.
* Snapshot allows the freedom to mess windows up then quicky revert to a known state.
* Some EWMH desktop atoms have been dumped as surplus to requirements.
### config.h
All customization happens in config.h. See in-line comments there.
**Note**: config.h is tracked! Use a local git branch to protect any customization.
All customization happens in config.h. See in-line comments there. It's tracked, so use a local git branch or a merge tool to protect any customization.