polytreewm/polytreewm.1

.TH POLYTREEWM 1 polytreewm\-VERSION
.SH NAME
PolytreeWM \- Polytree tiling window manager
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B polytreewm
.RB [ \-v ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
PolytreeWM is a tiling window manager for X. It manages windows in monocle,
floating and tiled layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimising
the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
.P
In tiled layouts windows are managed in a master and stacking area. The master
area on the left contains one window by default, and the stacking area on the
right contains all other windows. The number of master area windows can be
adjusted from zero to an arbitrary number. In monocle layout all windows are
maximised to the screen size. In floating layout windows can be resized and
moved freely. Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the
layout applied.
.P
PolytreeWM draws a small border around windows to indicate the focus state.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-v
prints version information to stderr, then exits.
.SH USAGE
.SS Keyboard commands
.TP
.B Mod1\-/
Spawn
.BR rofi(1)
for launching other programs.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-/
Start terminal.
.TP
.B Mod1\-,
Focus previous screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-.
Focus next screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-,
Send focused window to previous screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-.
Send focused window to next screen, if any.
.TP
.B Mod1\-m
Sets monocle layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-f
Sets floating layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-t
Sets tiled layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-u
Sets tiled layout with centered master.
.TP
.B Mod1\-space
Toggles between current and previous layout.
.TP
.B Mod1\-j
Focus next window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-k
Focus previous window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-i
Increase number of windows in master area.
.TP
.B Mod1\-d
Decrease number of windows in master area.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-i
Reset number of windows in master area to default.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-d
Set number of windows in master area to 0.
.TP
.B Mod1\-l
Increase master area size.
.TP
.B Mod1\-h
Decrease master area size.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Return
Zooms/cycles focused window to/from master area (tiled layouts only).
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-x
Close focused window.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-space
Toggle focused window between tiled and floating state.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Shift\-q
Quit PolytreeWM.
.SS Mouse commands
.TP
.B Mod1\-Button1
Move focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Button2
Toggles focused window between floating and tiled state.
.TP
.B Mod1\-Button3
Resize focused window while dragging. Tiled windows will be toggled to the floating state.
.SH CUSTOMIZATION
PolytreeWM is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR rofi (1)
.SH ISSUES
Java applications which use the XToolkit/XAWT backend may draw grey windows
only. The XToolkit/XAWT backend breaks ICCCM-compliance in recent JDK 1.5 and early
JDK 1.6 versions, because it assumes a reparenting window manager. Possible workarounds
are using JDK 1.4 (which doesn't contain the XToolkit/XAWT backend) or setting the
environment variable
.BR AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit
(to use the older Motif backend instead) or running
.B xprop -root -f _NET_WM_NAME 32a -set _NET_WM_NAME LG3D
or
.B wmname LG3D
(to pretend that a non-reparenting window manager is running that the
XToolkit/XAWT backend can recognize) or when using OpenJDK setting the environment variable
.BR _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 .
.SH BUGS
Send all bug reports with a patch to kotovalexarian@gmail.com.