\documentclass[letterpaper,oneside]{scrbook} \usepackage{txfonts} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra} \usepackage{fancyvrb} \usepackage[top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{makeidx} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage[xetex,breaklinks,colorlinks,linkcolor=black]{hyperref} % Indexes \makeindex \let\primary=\textbf \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Numbers=OldStyle]{Palatino LT Std} \let\primary=\textbf \def\titlebar#1{% \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=5.5in]{#1.png}\end{center}} \def\man#1#2{#2\textbf{(#1)}} % Key specs \def\key#1{{\small$\langle$\addfontfeature{Numbers=Lining}#1\/$\rangle$}} \let\<=< \catcode`\<=\active \def<#1>{\key{#1}} % Display ‹...› and «...» as text in left and right pointing % angle brackets. 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Several unicode characters are hacked to replace % the grabbed characters, since we can't escape them in the % verbatim environment. \colorlet{comment}{gray} \colorlet{string}{red!100!black!90} \let\‘=‘ \let\“=“ \catcode`¶=6 \catcode`#=\active\let#=\# \catcode`\#=\active \catcode`“=\active \catcode`‘=\active \def“¶1”{{\color{string}\“¶1”}}% \def‘¶1’{{\color{string}\‘¶1’}}% \DefineVerbatimEnvironment{code}{Verbatim}{xleftmargin=2em,gobble=2,% codes={\catcode`\#=\active\catcode`\:=\active\catcode`“=\active\catcode`‘=\active},% defineactive={% \def#{\itshape\color{comment}\let“=\“\let‘=\‘\#}% }} \catcode`\#=6 \catcode`“=12 \catcode`‘=12 % Convenience defs for the various wmii commands, and a few % others. \def\wmii{\texttt{wmii}} \def\wiIXmenu{\texttt{wi9menu}} \def\wimenu{\texttt{wimenu}} \def\wmiir{\texttt{wmiir}} \def\ninep{{\addfontfeature{Numbers=Lining}9P}} \def\POSIX{\textsc{POSIX}} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \leavevmode \vfill \begin{center} \centerline{\includegraphics[width=2in]{../img/wmii.pdf}} \vskip 1in \LARGE The \wmii\ User Guide \vskip .5in \Large Kris Maglione \\[1em] \addfontfeature{Numbers=Lining} 13 October 2009 \end{center} \vfill \newpage \frontmatter \tableofcontents \newpage \chapter*{License} This file is distributed under the same terms as wmii: \begingroup \ttfamily \parindent=0pt \parskip=1em \catcode`\:=12 Copyright © 2009 Kris Maglione <\href{mailto:maglione.k@gmail.com}{maglione.k@gmail.com}> 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. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. \endgroup \mainmatter \chapter{Introduction} \wmii\ is a simple but powerful window manager for the X Window System. It provides both the classic (“floating”) and tiling (“managed”) window management paradigms, which is to say, it does the job of managing your windows, so you don't have to. It also provides programability by means of a simple file-like interface, which allows the user to program in virtually any language he chooses. These basic features have become indispensable to the many users of \wmii\ and other similar window managers, but they come at a cost. Though our penchant for simplicity makes \wmii's learning curve significantly shorter than most of its competitors, there's still a lot to learn. The rest of this guide will be devoted to familiarizing new users with \wmii's novel features and eccentricities, as well as provide advanced users with an in-depth look at our customization facilities. \section{Concepts} As noted, \wmii\ provides two management styles: \begin{description} \item[Managed] This is the primary style of window management in \wmii. Windows managed in this style are automatically arranged by \wmii\ into columns. Columns are created and destroyed on demand. Individual windows in the column may be moved or resized, and are often collapsed or hidden entirely. Ad-hoc stacks of collapsed and uncollapsed windows allow the user to efficiently manage their tasks. When switching from an active to a collapsed window, the active window collapses and the collapsed one effectively takes its place. Managed windows have an unadorned titlebar: \titlebar{managed} \item[Floating] Since some programs aren't designed in ways conducive to the managed work flow, \wmii\ also provides the classic “floating” window management model. Windows managed in this model float above the managed windows and may be moved freely about. Other than automatic placement of new windows and snapping of edges, \wmii\ doesn't manage floating windows at all. Floating windows are indicated by a decorated titlebar: \titlebar{floating} \item[Fullscreen] Fullscreen mode is actually a subset of the floating style. Windows may be toggled to and from fullscreen mode at will. When fullscreen, windows reside in the floating layer, above the managed windows. They have no borders or titlebars, and occupy the full area of the screen. Other than that, however, they're not special in any way. Other floating windows may appear above them and the user can still select, open, and close other windows at will. \end{description} \subsection{The Filesystem} All of \wmii's customization is done via a virtual filesystem. Since the filesystem is implemented in the standardized \ninep\ protocol, it can be accessed in many ways. \wmii\ provides a simple command-line client, \wmiir, but many alternatives exist, including libraries for Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and C. It can even be mounted, either by Linux's 9p.ko kernel module or indirectly via FUSE. The filesystem that \wmii\ provides is “virtual”, which is to say that it doesn't reside on disk anywhere. In a sense, it's a figment of \wmii's imagination. Files, when read, represent \wmii's current configuration or state. When written, they perform actions, update the UI, etc. For instance, the directory |/client/| contains a directory for each window that \wmii\ is currently managing. Each of those directories, in turn, contains files describing the client's properties (its title, its views\footnote{Views in \wmii\ are akin to workspaces or virtual desktops in other window managers, but with some subtle differences.}, its state). Most files can be written to update the state they describe. For instance, |/client/sel/ctl| describes the state of the selected client. If a client is fullscreen, it contains the line: \begin{code} Fullscreen on \end{code} \noindent To change this, you'd update the file with the line % XXX: Broken /ctl cmd. |Fullscreen off| or even |Fullscreen| |toggle| to toggle the client's fullscreen state. The concept of controlling a program via a filesystem derives from Plan 9, where such interfaces are extensive and well proven. The metaphor has shown itself to be quite intuitive to Unix users, once the shock of a “virtual” filesystem wears off. The flexibility of being able to control \wmii\ from myriad programming languages, including the standard Unix shell and even from the command line, is well worth the shock. \subsection{Views and Tags} Like most X11 window managers, \wmii\ provides virtual workspaces. Unlike other window managers though, \wmii's workspaces are created and destroyed on demand. Instead of being sent to a workspace, windows in \wmii\ are tagged with any number of names. Views are created dynamically from these tags, and automatically if the user tries to access them. For instance, if a window is given the tags ‘foo’ and ‘bar’, the two views ‘foo’ and ‘bar’ are created, if they don't already exist. The window is now visible on both of them. Moreover, tags can be specified as regular expressions. So, a client tagged with {\tt \verb+/^foo/+} will appear on any view named ‘foo’, ‘foo:bar’, and so forth. Any time a client is tagged with a matching tag, or the user opens a matching view, the window is automatically added to it. \subsection{The Bar} \wmii\ provides a general purpose information bar at the top or bottom of the screen. The bar is divided into a left and a right section. Each section is made up of buttons, with a single button spanning the gap between the two sides. Buttons can be individually styled and can hold any text content the user wishes. By convention, the buttons to the left show view names, and those to the right display status information. \subsection{The Menus} \wmii\ includes two simple, external menu programs. The first, \wimenu, is keyboard-based, and is used to launch programs and generally prompt the user for input. It provides a list of completions which are automatically filtered as you type. The second, \wiIXmenu, is mouse-based, and is generally used to provide context menus for titlebars and view buttons. Both menus can be easily launched from shell scripts or the command line, as well as from more complex scripting languages. \subsection{The Keyboard} \wmii\ is a very keyboard friendly window manager. Most actions can be performed without touching the mouse, including launching, closing, moving, resizing, and selecting programs. New keybindings of any complexity can easily be added to handle any missing functionality, or to simplify any repetitive tasks. \subsection{The Mouse} Despite being highly keyboard-accessible, \wmii\ strives to be highly mouse accessible as well. Windows can be moved or resized by dragging their window borders. When combined with a key press, they can be moved, resized, or raised by dragging any visible portion of the window. Mouse menus are accessed with a single click and drag. View buttons in the bar and client titlebars respond to the mouse wheel; view buttons can be activated by dragging any draggable object (e.g., a file from a file manager) over them. \chapter{Getting Started} This section will walk you through your first \wmii\ startup. For your first experience, we recommend running \wmii\ in its own X session, so you can easily switch back to a more comfortable environment if you get lost. Though you may start \wmii\ from a session manager in your day to day use, these instructions will use |xinit|. To begin with, copy this file to your home directory, so we can open it in your new X session. Then setup your |~/.xinitrc| as follows: \begin{code} cd # Start a PDF viewer with this guide. Use any viewer # you're comfortable with. xpdf wmii.pdf & # Launch wmii exec wmii # That was easy. \end{code} Before you run |xinit|, make sure you know how to switch between terminals. Depending on your system, your current X session is probably on terminal 5 or 7. You should be able to switch between your terminals by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F$\langle n\rangle$. Assuming that your current X session is on terminal 7, you should be able to switch between it and your new session by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. Now you should be ready to start \wmii. When you run the following command, you should be presented with a new X session running wmii and a PDF viewer showing this document. \begin{code} xinit \end{code} When you're there, find this page in the new PDF viewer and continue. \section{Your First Steps} If everything went according to plan, you should be viewing this from a nearly empty \wmii\ session. We're going to be using the keyboard a lot, so let's start with a convention for key notation. We'll be using the key modifiers Control, Alt, Shift, and Meta\footnote{The Windows$^{\mbox{\tiny®}}$ key on most keyboards. The Penguin key, on the more tongue in cheek varieties.}, which we'll specify as C-, A-, S-, and M-, respectively. So, means pressing ‘|a|’ while holding |Control| and |Shift|. We'll also express mouse clicks this way, with signifying a press of the right mouse button, with the Meta key depressed. Buttons 4 and 5 are the up and down scroll wheel directions, respectively. \subsection{Floating Mode} Beginning with what's familiar to most users, we'll first explore floating mode. First, we need to select the floating layer. Press . You should see the titlebar of this window change color. Now, press to launch a terminal. The easiest way to drag the terminal around is to press and hold over the window and simply drag the window around. You should be able to drag the window anywhere onscreen without ever releasing the mouse button. As you drag near the screen edges, you should notice a snap. If you try to drag the window fully off-screen, you'll find it constrained so that a portion always remains visible. Now, release the window and move the mouse toward one of its corners. Press and hold \footnote{The right button.}. As you drag the mouse around, you should see the window resized accordingly. To move the window without the modifier key, move the pointer over the layout box to the left of its titlebar. You should see the cursor change. Now, simply click and drag. To resize it, move the pointer toward the window's edge until you see the cursor change, and again, click and drag. Now, to close the window, move the mouse over the windows titlebar, press and hold , select |Delete|, and release it. You should see this window's titlebar return to its original color, indicating that it's regained focus. \subsection{Managed Mode} Now, for the fun part. We'll start exploring managed mode by looking at the basics of columns. In the default configuration, columns have three modes: \begin{description} \item[Stack] The default mode for new columns. Only one window is fully visible per column at once. The others only display their title bars. When new windows are added to the column, the active window collapses, and the new one takes its place. Whenever a collapsed client is selected, the active window is collapsed to take its place. \item[Max] Like stack mode, but the titlebars of collapsed clients are hidden. \item[Default] Multiple uncollapsed windows may be visible at once. New windows split the space with the other uncollapsed windows in their vicinity. Windows may still be collapsed by shrinking them to the size of their titlebars. At this point, the behavior of a stack of collapsed and uncollapsed clients is similar to that of stack mode. \end{description} Before we open any new windows in managed mode, we need to explore the column modes a bit. Column modes are activated with the key bindings listed above. This column should be in stack mode now. Watch the right side of the titlebar as you press to enter max mode. You should see an indicator appear. This tells you the number of hidden windows directly above and below the current window, and its position in that stack. Press to enter default mode. Now we're ready to open another client. Press to launch another terminal. Now, press to move the terminal to a new column to the right of this one. Once it's there, press two more times to launch two more terminals. Now that you have more than one window in a column, cycle through the three column modes again until they seem familiar. \subsection{Keyboard Navigation} To begin, switch back to default mode. The basic keyboard navigation keys, , , , and , derive from vi, and represent moving left, down, up, and right respectively. Try selecting each of the four windows currently visible on screen. Notice that navigation wraps from one side of the screen to the other, and from the top to the bottom. Now, return to the write column, switch to stack mode, and select each of the three terminals again. Do the same in max mode, paying careful attention to the indicator to the right of the titlebar. Now that you can select windows, you'll want to move them around. To move a window, just add the Shift key to the direction keys. So, to move a window left, instead of , type . Now, experiment with moving windows, just as you did with navigating them, in each of the three column modes. Once you're comfortable with that, move a window to the floating layer. Since we toggled between the floating and managed layers with , we'll move windows between them with . Try moving some windows back and forth until it becomes familiar. Now, move several windows to the floating layer and try switching between them with the keyboard. You'll notice that and don't function in the floating layer. This is for both historical and logistical reasons. and cycle through floating windows in order of their most recent use. \subsection{Mouse Navigation} \wmii\ uses the “sloppy focus” model, which is to say, it focuses windows when the mouse enters them and when you click them. It focuses windows only when you select them with the keyboard, click their titlebars, or press click them with . Collapsed windows may be opened with the mouse by clicking their titlebars. Moving and resizing floating windows should be largely familiar, and has already been covered. The same can't be said for managed windows. Let's begin working with the mouse in the managed layer. Return to a layout with this document in a column on the left, and three terminals in a column to the right. Switch the right column to default mode. Now, bring the mouse to the top of the third terminal's titlebar until you see a resize cursor. Click and drag the titlebar to the very top of the screen. Now, move the cursor to the top of the second terminal's titlebar and drag it to the very bottom of the screen. Press to restore the terminals to their original sizes. Now, click and hold the layout box of the second terminal. Drag it to the middle of the terminal's window and release. Click and hold the layout box of the third terminal and drag it to the middle of the first terminal's window. Finally, drag the first terminal's layout box to halfway down this window. works to the same effect as dragging the layout box, but allows you to click anywhere in the window. Now that you've seen the basics of moving and dragging windows, let's move on to columns. Click and drag the border between the two columns. If that's a difficult target to click, there's a triangle at the top of the division between the two columns that you can click and drag as well. If that's still too hard a target, try using , which works anywhere and provides much richer functionality. \subsection{Window Focus and Selection} For the purposes of keyboard navigation, \wmii\ keeps track of which window is currently selected, and confers its titlebar a different color scheme from the other windows. This window is the basis of relative motion commands, such as “select the window to the left”, and the target of commands such as “close this window”. Normally, the selected window is the same as the focused window, i.e., the window that receives keyboard events. Some applications, however, present strange corner cases. \begin{description} \item[Focused, selected window] This is the normal case of a window which is both selected and has the keyboard focus. \titlebar{selected} \item[Unfocused, unselected window] This is the normal case for an unselected window which does not have the keyboard focus. \titlebar{unselected} \item[Unfocused, selected window] This is the first unusual case. This is the selected window, for the purposes of keyboard navigation, but it does not receive keyboard events. A good example is an onscreen keyboard, which will receive mouse clicks and translate them to keyboard events, but won't absorb those keyboard events itself. Other examples include any window whilst another (such as \wimenu) has grabbed the keyboard. \titlebar{unfocused} \item[Focused, unselected window] This is the second unusual focus case. The window has the keyboard focus, but for the purposes of keyboard navigation, it is not considered selected. In the case of an onscreen keyboard, this is the window which will receive the generated events. In the case of a keyboard grab, the will likely be the window holding the grab. \titlebar{focused} \end{description} \section{Running Programs} You've already seen the convenient key binding to launch a terminal, but what about other programs? To get a menu of all of the executables in your path, type . This should replace the bar at the bottom of the screen with a prompt, followed by a string of completions. Start typing the name of a program that you want to open. You can press and to cycle through the completions, or you can just press to select the first one. If you want to execute a more complex command, just type it out and press . If you want to recall that command later, use \wimenu's history. Start typing the command you want and then press until you come to it. When you're done with a program, you'll probably want an easy way to close it. The first way is to ask the program to close itself. Since that can be tedious (and sometimes impossible), \wmii\ provides other ways. As mentioned, you can right click the titlebar and select |Delete|. If you're at the keyboard, you can type . These two actions cause \wmii\ to ask nicely that the program exit. In those sticky cases where the program doesn't respond, \wmii\ will wait 10 seconds before prompting you to kill the program. If you don't feel like waiting, you can select |Kill| from the window's titlebar menu, in which case \wmii\ will forcefully and immediately kill it. Beware, killing clients is a last resort. In cases where the same program opens multiple windows, killing one will kill them all—without warning. \section{Using Views} As already noticed, \wmii's concept of virtual workspaces is somewhat unique, so let's begin exploring it. Open up a terminal and press . You should see a new button on the bar at the bottom of the screen. When you click it, you should see your original terminal. Press to come back here. Now, press , and again to return here once more. Notice that the views were created when needed, and destroyed when no longer necessary. If you want to select a view with a proper name, use and enter the name. Other than the dynamic creation of views, this is still similar to the familiar X11 workspace model. But that's just the beginning of \wmii's model. Open a new terminal, and type: \begin{code} echo ‘Hello world!’ \end{code} \noindent Now, type . In the menu that appears, enter |1+2+3|. Now, visit the views |1|, |2|, and |3|, and you'll see the client on each. To remove a tag, type again, and this time enter |-2|. You'll notice that the client is no longer on the |2| view. Finally, tag names needn't be discrete, ordinary strings. They can also be regular expressions. Select the terminal again, and enter |+/^5/|. Now, switch to the |5| view. Now try the |6| view. Finally, type and enter |50| to check the |50| view. Clients tagged with regular expressions are attached to any matching views when they're created. So, when you switch to an empty view, or tag a client with a new tag, any clients with matching regular expressions are automatically added to it. When all explicitly tagged clients disappear from the view, and it's no longer visible, clients held there by regular expressions are automatically removed. \section{Learning More} For full tables of the standard key bindings, and descriptions of the precise semantics of the topics discussed above, you should refer to \wmii's |man| pages. \chapter{Customizing \wmii} There are several configuration schemes available for \wmii. If you're only looking to add basic key bindings, status monitors, \emph{et cetera}, you should have no trouble modifying the stock configuration for your language of choice. If you're looking for deeper knowledge of \wmii's control interface though, this section is for you. We'll proceed by building a configuration script in \POSIX\ |sh| syntax and then move on to a discussion of the higher level constructs in the stock configuration scripts. \section{Events} The \wmii\ control interface is largely event driven. Each event is represented by a single, plain-text line written to the |/event| file. You can think of this file as a named pipe. When reading it, you won't receive an EOF\footnote{End of File} until \wmii\ exits. Moreover, any lines written to the file will be transmitted to everyone currently reading from it. Notable events include key presses, the creation and destruction of windows, and changes of focus and views. We'll start building our configuration with an event processing framework: \begin{code} «Event Loop» ::= # Broadcast a custom event wmiir xwrite /event Start wmiirc # Turn off globbing set -f # Open /event for reading wmiir read /event | # Read the events line by line while read line; do # Split the line into words, store in $@ set -- $line event=$1; shift line = "$(echo $line | sed ‘s/^[^ ]* //’ | tr -d ‘\n’)" # Process the event case $event in Start) # Quit when a new instance starts [ $1 = wmiirc ] && exit;; «Event Handlers» esac done \end{code} Now, we need to consider which types of events we'll need to handle: \begin{code} «Event Handlers» ::= «View Button Events» «Urgency Events» «Unresponsive Clients» «Notice Events» «Key Events» «Client Menu Events» «Tag Menu Events» \end{code} \section{Bar Items} The bar is described by the files in the two directories |/lbar/| and |/rbar/| for buttons on the left and right side of the bar, respectively. The format of the files is: \begin{code} ‹Color Tuple› ‹Label› \end{code} although the color tuple may be elided in cases where the label doesn't match its format. A ‹Color Tuple› is defined as: \begin{code} ‹tuple› ::= ‹foreground color› ‹background color› ‹border color› ‹color› ::= #‹6 character RGB hex color code› \end{code} Let's define our basic theme information now: \begin{code} «Theme Definitions» ::= normcolors=‘#000000 #c1c48b #81654f’ focuscolors=‘#000000 #81654f #000000’ background=‘#333333’ font=‘drift,-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*’ \end{code} \subsection{View Buttons} With a basic understanding of bar items in mind, we can write our view event handlers: \index{events!CreateTag} \index{events!DestroyTag} \index{events!FocusTag} \index{events!UnfocusTag} \begin{code} «View Button Events» ::= CreateTag) # CreateTag ‹Tag Name› echo $normcolors $1 | wmiir create /lbar/$1;; DestroyTag) # DestroyTag ‹Tag Name› wmiir rm /lbar/$1;; FocusTag) # FocusTag ‹Tag Name› wmiir xwrite /lbar/$1 $focuscolors $1;; UnfocusTag) # UnfocusTag ‹Tag Name› wmiir xwrite /lbar/$1 $normcolors $1;; \end{code} \subsection{Urgency} \index{events!UrgentTag|(} \index{events!NotUrgentTag|(} Windows can specify that they require attention, and in X11 parlance, this is called urgency. When a window requests attention as such, or declares that it's been satisfied, \wmii\ broadcasts an event for the client and an event for each view that it belongs to, and fills in the client's layout box. It's the job of a script to decide how to handle it above and beyond that. The standard scripts simply mark urgent views with an asterisk: \begin{code} «Urgency Events» ::= # The urgency events are ‘Client’ events when the program # owning the window sets its urgency state. They're ‘Manager’ # events when wmii or the wmii user sets the state. UrgentTag) # UrgentTag ‹‘Client’ or ‘Manager’› ‹Tag Name› wmiir xwrite /lbar/$2 $2;; NotUrgentTag) # NotUrgentTag ‹‘Client’ or ‘Manager’› ‹Tag Name› wmiir xwrite /lbar/$2 $2;; \end{code} \index{events!UrgentTag|)} \index{events!NotUrgentTag|)} \subsection{Notices} The standard scripts provide a custom Notice event for displaying status information. The events appear in the long bar between the left and right sides for five seconds. \begin{code} «Notice Events» ::= Notice) wmiir xwrite /rbar/!notice $line kill $xpid 2>/dev/null # Let's hope this isn't reused... { sleep 5; wmiir xwrite /rbar/!notice ‘ ’; } & xpid = $!;; \end{code} \section{Keys} \label{keybindings} \index{key bindings} \index{filesystem!/!keys} \index{filesystem!/!event} Now to the part you've no doubt been waiting for: binding keys. When binding keys, you need to be aware of two files, |/keys| and |/event|. The former defines which keys \wmii\ needs to grab, and the latter broadcasts the events when they're pressed. Key names are specified as a series of modifiers followed by a key name, all separated by hyphens. Valid modifier names are |Control|, |Shift|, |Mod1| (usually Alt), |Mod2|, |Mod3|, |Mod4| (usually the Windows® key), and |Mod5|. Modifier keys can be changed via |xmodmap(1)|, the details of which are beyond the scope of this document. Key names can be detected by running |xev| from a terminal, pressing the desired key, and looking at the output (it's in the parentheses, after the keysym). A \wmii-specific utility is forthcoming. Examples of key bindings: \begin{description} \item[Windows® key + Capital A] |Mod4-Shift-A| \item[Control + Alt + Space] |Mod1-Control-Space| \end{description} Now, let's bind the keys we plan on using: \begin{code} «Bind Keys» ::= { cat < ‹width›{\color{gray}[}+‹width›{\color{gray}]*}} \end{quote} Where, \begin{code} ‹width› := ‹percent of screen› | ‹pixels›px \end{code} When a new column, ‹n›, is created on a view whose name matches ‹regex›, it is given the ‹n›th supplied ‹width›. If there is no ‹n›th width, it is given $1/\mbox{‹ncol›th}$ of the screen. \item[tagrules] \index{filesystem!/!tagrules} The |/tagrules| file contains a list of rules similar to the colrules. These rules specify the tags a client is to be given when it is created. Rules are specified: \begin{quote}\texttt{ /‹regex›/ -> ‹tag›{\color{gray}[}+‹tag›{\color{gray}]*}} \end{quote} When a client's ‹name›:‹class›:‹title› matches ‹regex›, it is given the tagstring ‹tag›. There are two special tags. |!|, which is deprecated, and identical to |sel|, represents the current tag. |~| represents the floating layer. \end{description} \index{!filesystem!/|)} \subsection{Configuration} We'll need to let \wmii\ know about our previously defined theme information: \begin{code} «Configuration» ::= «Theme Definitions» xsetroot -solid $background wmiir write /ctl </dev/null # Let's hope this isn't reused... { sleep 5; wmiir xwrite /rbar/!notice ‘ ’; } & xpid = $!;; # «Key Events» Key) # Key ‹Key Name› case $1 in # «Motion Keys» Mod4-h) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select left;; Mod4-l) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select right;; Mod4-k) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select up;; Mod4-j) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select down;; Mod4-space) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl select toggle;; # «Client Movement Keys» Mod4-Shift-h) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel left;; Mod4-Shift-l) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel right;; Mod4-Shift-k) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel up;; Mod4-Shift-j) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel down;; Mod4-Shift-space) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl send sel toggle;; # «Column Mode Keys» Mod4-d) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel -stack-max;; Mod4-s) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel stack-max;; Mod4-m) wmiir xwrite /tag/sel/ctl colmode sel stack+max;; # «Client Command Keys» Mod4-Shift-c) wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl kill;; Mod4-f) wmiir xwrite /client/sel/ctl Fullscreen toggle;; # «Command Execution Keys» Mod4-Return) terminal & ;; Mod4-p) eval exec wmiir setsid "$(proglist $PATH | wimenu)" &;; Mod4-a) { set -- $(proglist $WMII_CONFPATH | wimenu) prog=$(PATH=$WMII_CONFPATH which $1); shift eval exec $prog “$@” } &;; # «Tag Selection Keys» Mod4-t) # Prompt the user for a tag tags=$(wmiir ls /tag | sed ‘s,/,,; /^sel$/d’ | wimenu) # Write it to the filesystem. wmiir xwrite /ctl view $tag;; Mod4-[0-9]) wmiir xwrite /ctl view ${1##*-};; # «Tagging Keys» Mod4-Shift-t) # Get the selected client's id c=$(wmiir read /client/sel/ctl | sed 1q) # Prompt the user for new tags tags=$(wmiir ls /tag | sed ‘s,/,,; /^sel$/d’ | wimenu) # Write them to the client wmiir xwrite /client/$c/tags $tag;; Mod4-Shift-[0-9]) wmiir xwrite /client/sel/tags ${1##*-};; esac;; # «Client Menu Events» ClientMouseDown) # ClientMouseDown ‹Client ID› ‹Button› [ $2 = 3 ] && clickmenu \ “Delete:xwrite /client/$1/ctl kill” \ “Kill:xwrite /client/$1/ctl slay” \ “Fullscreen:/client/$1/ctl Fullscreen on” # «Tag Menu Events» LeftBarMouseDown) # LeftBarMouseDown ‹Button› ‹Bar Name› [ $1 = 3 ] && clickmenu \ “Delete:delete_view $2” esac done \end{code} \backmatter \printindex \end{document}