WIND(1)

NAME
wind - window manager

SYNOPSIS
wind [ -v ] [ -n number ] [ -t font ] [ -f color ] [ -b color ] [ -F color ] [ -B color ] [ display ]

DESCRIPTION

Wind is a window manager for the X Window System. It supports virtual desktops, Xft font rendering, and is pretty standards compliant.

A display argument may be specified to manage a display other than the default.

The following options are recognized:

-n number
    Set initial number of virtual desktops. Zero means keep current setting, and is the default. If no current setting exists, 12 desktops are allocated.

-t font
    Use font for window titles.

-f color
    Use color as foreground.

-b color
    Use color as background.

-F color
    Use color as focused foreground.

-B color
    Use color as focused background.

-v  Enable debug mode. This puts X11 transactions in synchronous mode, and prints Xlib errors to the standard error file descriptor. This option will slow things down, and is only useful for debugging.

Window focus
    Press a pointer button inside the window to raise it and give it the keyboard input focus.

Moving a window
    Drag the window by its title bar to the desired location. Alternatively, hold down the Alt key and grab the window from anywhere inside its frame. A moving window follows desktop switches.

Resizing a window
    Drag the top left or right corners to resize the window.

Deleting a window
    Push the × button in the upper right corner of the frame to ask the window to delete itself.

Minimizing a window
    There are no minimized windows in Wind, but there are two substitutes: virtual desktops help organizing related windows, and the Alt-Esc key binding cycles between the applications on the current desktop.

Virtual desktops
    Wind supports virtual desktops as defined by the Extended Window Manager Hints specification. The first twelve desktops are addressable using the Alt-Fn key bindings. An external pager is needed to address more than twelve desktops.

The following key bindings are provided:

Alt-Esc
    Cycle through the open applications on the current desktop.

Alt-Backspace
    Ask the focused window to delete itself.

Alt-Return
    Toggle the fullscreen property of the focused window.

Alt-Space
    Toggle stickiness of the focused window. A sticky window is visible on all desktops. This property is indicated by an underlined window title.

Alt-Fn
    Switch to the n-th virtual desktop.

Shift-Alt-Fn
    Change number of virtual desktops to n, and switch to the last one. Windows beyond desktop n are moved to n. Shift-Alt-F1 is particularly useful when logging out.

Wind terminates gracefully upon receipt of any of the SIGHUP, SIGINT, and SIGTERM signals.

AUTHOR

Johan Veenhuizen, veenhuizen@users.sourceforge.net

BUGS

Report bugs to the Wind mailing list:
    windwm-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
This list is also open for general discussion.

SEE ALSO

startx(1), xdm(1), X(7)

http://windwm.sourceforge.net

LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Johan Veenhuizen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ``Software''), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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