Welcome to nsowm
The next generation of sowm
A minimal floating window manager
- Floating only.
- Fullscreen toggle.
- Window centering.
- Mix of mouse and keyboard workflow.
- Focus with cursor.
- Rounded corners (patch)
- Titlebars (patch)
- lemonbar support (barfs)
- Alt-Tab window focusing.
- All windows die on exit.
- Window borders (patch).
- No ICCCM.
- No EWMH.
- etc etc etc
Default Keybindings
Window Management
| combo | action |
|---|---|
Mouse |
focus under cursor |
MOD1 + Left Mouse |
move window |
MOD1 + Right Mouse |
resize window |
MOD1 + f |
maximize toggle |
MOD1 + c |
center window |
MOD1 + Shift + c |
kill window |
MOD1 + Shift + q |
quit nsowm |
MOD1 + 1-6 |
desktop swap |
MOD1 + Shift +1-6 |
send window to desktop |
MOD1 + TAB (alt-tab) |
focus cycle |
Programs
| combo | action | program |
|---|---|---|
MOD1 + Shift + Return |
terminal | alacritty |
MOD4 + d |
dmenu | dmenu_run |
MOD4 + p |
scrot | scrot |
MOD4 + w |
wallpaper cycler | bud |
XF86_AudioLowerVolume |
volume down | amixer |
XF86_AudioRaiseVolume |
volume up | amixer |
XF86_AudioMute |
volume toggle | amixer |
XF86_MonBrightnessUp |
brightness up | bri |
XF86_MonBrightnessDown |
brightness down | bri |
Dependencies
xlib(usuallylibX11).
Installation
1) Run make to build nsowm.
2) Copy it to your path or run make install.
DESTDIRandPREFIXare supported. 3) (Optional) Apply patches with thepatches.hfile. 4) (Optional) Edit your config with theconfig.hfile.
If you are using GDM, run make desktop as root to copy the nsowm.desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions/. It is still recommended to start nsowm from .xinitrc or through
your own xinit implementation.
Rebuilding
- Run
make clean installas root.