What is subtle?¶

subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Per default there is no typical layout enforcement, windows are placed on a position (gravity) in a custom grid. The user can change the gravity of each window either directly per grabs or with rules defined by tags in the config.

Windows are visible on views - the virtual desktops in subtle - that have at least one tag in common.

Features¶

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

Where to start?¶

Installing subtle Using subtle Using sublets Themes

Understanding tagging Understanding gravity Customizing panel Configuring keys Hooking events

Hacking subtle Scripting Snippets FAQ

Contribute¶

In case you want to help but don't know how, please help with some documentation and improve the wiki or make a donation. Patches, suggestions and open discussions are always welcome.

Unfinished pages:

• Usage
• Sublets
• Tagging
• Gravity
• Scripting

Problems?¶

• Join #subtle on irc.freenode.org (IRC)
• Use the bugtracker
• Ask in the forum
• Drop a mail to unexist at dorfelite dot net

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