euclid-wm

euclid-wm is a minimalist, tiling window manager for X11 that seeks to allow easy management of numerous windows entirely from the keyboard.

euclid seeks to do two things in particular:

• balance the ease of use common among window managers with automatic or fixed layouts with the flexibility of those with dynamic layouts,
• create an easy way to manage minimized windows

Features

• Completely keyboard controlled, no need to reach for the mouse . . . ever.
• Easy layout: Place and resize windows into just about any layout with very few keystrokes.
• Small

  ps -o comm,vsize,rss,trs,drs,cputime -C euclid-wm
  COMMAND            VSZ   RSS  TRS   DRS     TIME
  euclid-wm         3264  1224   27  3236 00:00:00
  

• A per view "stack" that manages minimized windows (and can itself be hidden to free up yet more screenspace).
• Fullscreen support.
• Simple (non-XMLified) config file, lets you tweak just about everything.
• Supports on-the-fly reloading of config file, without losing your layout.
• No floating layer. (This is a feature.)
• Plays nice with dzen and similar apps.
• Allows binding keys to arbitrary, external commands.
• Xinerama support (in development, get the source from SVN if you want to try it).

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