xoat/xoat.md

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NAME

xoat - X11 Obstinate Asymmetric Tiler

SYNOPSIS

xoat [restart] [exit]

DESCRIPTION

A static tiling window manager.

License: MIT/X11

USAGE

See config.h for customization.

These are the default key bindings:

Mod4-Left

Focus tile 1.

Mod4-Right (and Up)

Focus tile 2.

Mod4-Down

Focus tile 3.

Shift-Mod4-Left

Move window to tile 1.

Shift-Mod4-Right (and Up)

Move window to tile 2.

Shift-Mod4-Down

Move window to tile 3.

Mod4-Tab

Flip top two windows in a tile.

Mod4-` (grave)

Cycle all windows in a tile.

Mod4-Escape

Close a window.

Mod4-f

Toggle state fullscreen. While in fullscreen mode, an window is considered to be in tile 1.

Mod4-a

Toggle state above (only placed above fullscreen windows).

Mod4-Next (Page Down)

Focus next monitor.

Mod4-Prior (Page Up)

Focus previous monitor.

Shift-Mod4-Next

Move window to next monitor.

Shift-Mod4-Prior

Move window to previous monitor.

Shift-Mod4-x

Launch dmenu_run

F1

Launch urxvt

Mod4-s

Snapshot current window positions and stacking order.

Mod4-r

Rollback to snapshot. Windows closed since the snapshot will not be reopened. Newer windows not in the snapshot will be lowered.

OPTIONS

All configuration is done via config.h.

The xoat binary may be used to send messages to a running instance of xoat. They include:

xoat exit

Exit the window manager.

xoat restart

Restart the window manager in place without affecting the X session.

SEE ALSO

dmenu (1)

AUTHOR

Sean Pringle sean.pringle@gmail.com