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Anonymous, 12/08/2009 12:14 PM


What is subtle?\015\012\015\012subtle is a grid-based manual tiling window manager with a strong focus on easy but customizable look and feel. In comparison to other tiling windows managers, subtle has no automatic tiling of the screen size, instead windows are arranged according to position inside of a grid. These positions are called gravities and can be edited in the config.\015\012\015\012For better understanding and to ease the usage of gravities\015\012\015\012subtle consists of three parts which are designed to work with each other:\015\012\015\012* subtle the window manager itself\015\012* subtler a command client to control subtle via shell\015\012* subtlext a Ruby extension that can be used in grabs, hooks and standalone scripts\015\012\015\012h2. Features\015\012\015\012* Builtin system tray\015\012* Customizeable panel (see also sublets)\015\012* Customizeable key/mouse actions (see grabs)\015\012* Scriptable with Ruby (see rdoc, config, grabs, hooks sublets)\015\012* Window tagging\015\012* EWMH / ICCCM / XDG compliant\015\012* Xinerama / XRandr support\015\012\015\012h2. Where to start?\015\012\015\012If you are new to subtle you should have a look at the screenshots first and probably give the quickstart a try. Also you can find install instructions here or in the INSTALL file, notes to some programs and developer informations.\015\012\015\012h2. Getting subtle\015\012\015\012The current stable version of subtle is 0.8.1602 and is available for download. If you prefer bleeding edge you can check out the latest version from the Mercurial repository or download the recent tip. It can be viewed via the repository browser. hg clone http://hg.scrapping.cc/subtle\015\012\015\012_Keep in mind that the version in the repository is under heavily development and may or may not work._\015\012\015\012h2. Build packages\015\012\015\012Archlinux: subtle, subtle-hg (Thanks to vaxholm!)\015\012\015\012h2. Links\015\012\015\012Rubyforge, Freshmeat, Ohloh, Sourceforge Wiki":http://wiki.archlinux.org, Archlinux Forum. Contact\015\012\015\012If you have problems, suggestions or just want to talk about subtle feel free to join #subtle on irc.freenode.org, drop a mail to unexist at dorfelite dot net.