What is subtle?¶

subtle is a manual tiling window manager with an uncommon approach of tiling: Per default there is no typical layout enforcement, windows are placed on a custom grid either directly by the user per grabs or according to rules defined by tags in the config.

Besides the grid placement tags also determine how and where a window can be viewed. Views - the virtual desktops in subtle - show all windows with matching tags.

Features¶

• Builtin system tray
• Extendable panel (see sublets)
• Customizeable key/mouse actions (see grabs)
• Scriptable with Ruby (see rdoc)
• Window tagging
• EWMH / ICCCM / XDG compliant
• Xinerama / XRandr support

Where to start?¶

• Installing subtle
• Using subtle
• Hacking subtle
• Using sublets

Read more¶

Ohloh, Rubyforge, Freshmeat, Sourceforge, Archlinux Wiki, Archlinux Forum, Gentoo Forum

Contact¶

If you have problems, suggestions or just want to talk about subtle feel free to join #subtle on irc.freenode.org or drop a mail to unexist at dorfelite dot net.