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Anonymous, 12/08/2009 01:37 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 in any way, instead windows are arranged according to positions inside of a grid - these positions are called gravities.\015\012\015\012For better understanding of gravities, the layout of the grid is per default oriented on the numpad but can be changed in the config. That means that the 5 on the numpad is center, the 7 the upper left corner and so on. The gravity of a window can be changed with the :WindowGravity grab, which is Win+Numpad number.\015\012\015\012Views, virtual desktops in subtle, show only windows with matching tags. Both windows and views can be tagged either in the config or via subtler and subtlext. Tagging is mandatory, without a matching tag a window will never appear on a certain view.\015\012\015\012h2. Features\015\012\015\012* Builtin system tray\015\012* Flexible 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. hg clone http://hg.scrapping.cc/subtle\015\012\015\012_Keep in mind that the developer 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.