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We provide an easily usable and very-well documented API to configure and
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define the behaviour of your window manager.
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## Tag
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Windows are grouped by tags. Each window can be tagged with one or multiple
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tags.
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Selecting certain tags displays all windows with those tags. Each tag can have
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its own layout.
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Tags can be compared to virtual desktops, but it's more powerful: you can
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quickly merge and show several tags at the same time,
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and go back to only one tag after.
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## Layout
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A layout is a function which organize windows according to the space available
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on the screen.
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### Tiled
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With tiled layout, windows are managed in a master and a stacking area.
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The master area contains the windows which currently need most attention,
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whereas the stacking area contains all other windows.
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The master area can be splited in several rows and column, as you want.
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### Max
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Each window is resized to take full screen space.
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### Magnifier
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All windows are stacked behind the focused window.
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This one is centered in your screen and takes most of the available space.
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### Floating
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In floating layout, windows can be resized and moved freely, just like a usual
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window manager.
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Dialog windows are always managed floating, regardless of the layout selected.
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## Statusbar
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A statusbar is a bar which is displayed on top, bottom, left or right edge of
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the screen. It contains one or several widgets.
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## Titlebar
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Like statusbar, but this ones are displayed around a window: top, bottom, left
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or right edge or also usable.
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## Widget
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The widgets are contained inside statusbars or titlebars and displays
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various informations in form of text, image, progress bar, graph, etc…
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<div id="screenshot">
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[[!img images/4mon.png alt="awesome running on 4 monitors" size="320x240"]]
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</div>
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# Features and non-features
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* Very stable, fast, small and simple;
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* Only window manager using asynchronous [XCB](http://xcb.freedesktop.org)
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* Very stable, fast and small codebase and footprint;
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* First window manager using asynchronous [XCB](http://xcb.freedesktop.org)
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library instead of the old synchronous
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[Xlib](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlib): make **awesome** faster than
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any other window manager;
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[Xlib](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlib): make **awesome** less subject to
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latency than many window managers;
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* Very well documented source code and API;
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* No mouse needed: everything can be performed with keyboard;
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* Real multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode) with per screen
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[XEmbed](http://standards.freedesktop.org/xembed-spec/xembed-spec-latest.html),
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[Desktop Notification](http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/),
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[System Tray](http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html);
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* Real transparency support (using Composite extension and *xcompmgr*);
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* Doesn't distinguish between layers: there is no floating or tiled layer;
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* Whether or not the clients of currently selected tag(s) are in tiled layout,
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you can rearrange them on the fly. Popup and fixed-size windows are
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automatically floating.
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* Layout handling: automatically manage your windows placement according to
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the chosen policy for each tag;
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* Use tags instead of workspaces: allow to place clients on several tags, and
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display several tags at the same time;
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* A lot of Lua extensions to add features: dynamic tagging, widget feeding,
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tabs, …;
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tabs, layouts …;
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* [D-Bus](http://dbus.freedesktop.org) support;
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* And more.
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