Sawfish
Sawfish
https://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/
Window manager
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language. All window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp language.
Despite this extensibility, its policy is currently very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, applications docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications.
All high-level wm functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition. Currently this includes menus (using GTK+), interactive window moving and resizing, virtual desktop, iconification, focus/transient window policies, frame theme definitions and much more. Also, most received events are exported to the Lisp environment through key-bindings and hooks, similar to in Emacs. These events include pointer behavior and many internal X11 events (enter/leave, focus-in/focus-out, map/unmap, etc..)
Documentation
Programmer's manual available in HTML format from https://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/sawfish.html/index.htmlTo read the Info manual, execute the command info sawfish, or enter the Info mode within Emacs (`C-h i') and type g (sawfish) RET.
IRC general channel- irc://irc.freenode.net/sawfish
Download
https://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/
version 1.12.0
(stable)
released on 13 August 2016
User level
Intermediate
VCS Checkout
git clone git://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish.gitCategories
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Christopher Bratusek | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | VCS Repository Webview | https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish |
| Ruby (Ref) (R) | https://rubygems.org/gems/sawmill | |
| Gentoo | Homepage | https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-wm/sawfish |
| Bug Tracking,Developer,Support | Mailing List Subscribe | https://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/ |
| Python (Ref) (R) | https://pypi.org/project/Sawmill | |
| NetBSD | Homepage | http://pkgsrc.se/wip/sawfish |
| Developer | Bug Tracking | https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/issues |
| Developer | Download | https://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/releases |
| Wiki | Homepage | http://sawfish.wikia.com/ |
| Debian | Download | http://apt.nanolx.org/pool/main/s/sawfish/ |
| Developer | Download | https://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/ |
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sawfish | |
| Guix | Homepage | https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/s.html |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to build | GNU make |
| Required to build | imlib |
| Required to build | librep 0.13 or later |
| Required to build | rep-gtk 0.14 or later |
This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 29 March 2018.
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