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h1. What is subtle?\015\012\015\012[[Subtle|subtle]] 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 [[Gravity|gravities]] and can be edited in the [[config]].\015\012\015\012For better understanding and to ease the usage of [[Gravity|gravities]]\015\012\015\012[[Subtle|subtle]] consists of three parts which are designed to work with each other:\015\012\015\012* [[Subtle|subtle]] the window manager itself\015\012* [[Subtler|subtler]] a command client to control [[subtle]] via shell\015\012* [[Subtlext|subtlext]] a "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org 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* Flexible [[Panel|panel]] (see also [[Sublets|sublets]])\015\012* Customizeable key/mouse actions (see [[Grabs|grabs]])\015\012* Scriptable with "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org (see "rdoc":http://unexist.scrapping.cc/rdoc/subtle/index.html, [[Config|config]], [[Grabs|grabs]], [[Hooks|hooks]] [[Sublets|sublets]])\015\012* Window [[Tags|tagging]]\015\012* "EWMH":http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html / "ICCCM":http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ / "XDG":http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html compliant\015\012* "Xinerama":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama / "XRandr":http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR support\015\012\015\012h2. Where to start?\015\012\015\012If you are new to [[Subtle|subtle]] you should have a look at the [[Screenshots|screenshots]] first and probably  give the [[Quickstart|quickstart]] a try. Also you can find [[Install|install]] instructions here or in the @INSTALL@ file, notes to some [[Programs|programs]] and [[Development|developer informations]].\015\012\015\012h2. Getting subtle\015\012\015\012The current stable version of [[Subtle|subtle]] is *0.8.1602* and is available for "download":http://unexist.scrapping.cc/projects/list_files/subtle. If you prefer bleeding edge you can check out the latest version from the "Mercurial":http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ repository or download the recent "tip":http://hg.scrapping.cc/subtle/archive/tip.tar.bz2. It can be viewed via the repository "browser":http://hg.scrapping.cc/subtle.\015\012\015\012bq. 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\012"Archlinux":http://www.archlinux.org: "subtle":http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=13016, "subtle-hg":http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13139\015\012"Exherbo":http://git.exherbo.org/summer/packages/x11-wm/subtle/\015\012"Gentoo":http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280043 (Thanks to vaxholm!)\015\012\015\012h2. Links\015\012\015\012"Rubyforge":http://rubyforge.org/projects/subtle/, "Freshmeat":http://freshmeat.net/projects/subtle, "Ohloh":https://www.ohloh.net/p/subtle, "Sourceforge":http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtle-wm/\015\012"Archlinux Wiki":http://wiki.archlinux.org, "Archlinux Forum":http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71783\015\012\015\012h2. Contact\015\012\015\012If you have problems, suggestions or just want to talk about [[Subtle|subtle]] feel free to join *#subtle* on *irc.freenode.org*, drop a mail to _unexist_ at _dorfelite_ dot _net_.