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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..)





Licensing

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Notes

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Matt Kraai

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27 October 2000




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Christopher Bratusek Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Bug Tracking,Developer,SupportMailing List Subscribehttps://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/
GentooHomepagehttps://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-wm/sawfish
WikiHomepagehttp://sawfish.wikia.com/
Python (Ref) (R)https://pypi.org/project/Sawmill
DeveloperDownloadhttps://download.tuxfamily.org/sawfish/
GuixHomepagehttps://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/s.html
Ruby (Ref) (R)https://rubygems.org/gems/sawmill
NetBSDHomepagehttp://pkgsrc.se/wip/sawfish
DeveloperBug Trackinghttps://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/issues
DeveloperVCS Repository Webviewhttps://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish
DeveloperDownloadhttps://github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/releases
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sawfish
DebianDownloadhttp://apt.nanolx.org/pool/main/s/sawfish/


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to buildrep-gtk 0.14 or later
Required to buildimlib
Required to buildlibrep 0.13 or later
Required to buildGNU make




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