safwm

a Simple and Adequate Floating Window Manager

But why another window manager?

I'm a man of simplicity. I used many window managers for a really long time (about a week) and I've came to the realization of what is the best window manager that can be created (imo ofc).
It's important to know that I can't please everyone, so a "must be" thing is source code readability and ease of modification - meaning that everyone who wants to can modify/add/remove from the source code without any problem.

TLDR

simplicity.

There are some window managers that almost met my expectancies:

• Ragnar - The first ever window manager that I've used. truly an amazing piece of software, but the source was hard to modify, although it was easy to understand.
• sowm - Really amazing window manager. most of my source code is inspired (stolen) from it. the only problem I had is variable naming (hard to understand the difference between client.f and client.fs - which one is focus? which one is fullscreen? both words contain f and s...) and weird control flow (it took me about an hour to understand for win if, until I figured out that win is actually a macro).
  sowm also killed windows instead of properly closing them, and it also windows became invisible when trying to do a screenshot and I couldn't figure out why (this is the thing that made me decide on starting to write my own window manager).
• dwm - the first minimal window manager I've encountered (but not the first one I've settled on using), but the source code was just... weird? and I was too lazy to actually understand how it works.
• xmonad - I'm in love Haskell for about a year and a half already, but XMonad made the installation process and configuration a lot more complicated than it should be :(

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/netfri25/safwm
$ cd safwm
$ sudo make install

if you are using a session manager, then also run:

$ sudo cp safwm.desktop /usr/share/xsessions

if you are using startx (why) then just add this to the end of your xinit script:

exec safwm

Keybindings

(more will be added in the future)

General window manager keybindings

Key Combo	action
Super + Shift + q	quit safwm

Window related keybindings

Key Combo	action
Mouse	focus under cursor
Super + LMB	move window
Super + RMB	resize window
Super + c	center window
Super + m	maximize window
Super + f	fullscreen window
Super + q	quit window
Super + h	shrink left
Super + l	shrink right
Super + k	shrink up
Super + j	shrink down
Super + Shift + h	extend left
Super + Shift + l	extend right
Super + Shift + k	extend up
Super + Shift + j	extend down
Super + Alt + h	move left
Super + Alt + l	move right
Super + Alt + k	move up
Super + Alt + j	move down
Super + Left	swap with the previous window
Super + Right	swap with the next window

Workspace keybindings

Key Combo	action
Super + 1	goto workspace 1
Super + 2	goto workspace 2
Super + 3	goto workspace 3
Super + 4	goto workspace 4
Super + Shift + 1	move the focused window to workspace 1
Super + Shift + 2	move the focused window to workspace 2
Super + Shift + 3	move the focused window to workspace 3
Super + Shift + 4	move the focused window to workspace 4
Super + d	go to the next workspace
Super + a	go to the previous workspace
Super + Shift + d	drag the focused window to the next workspace
Super + Shift + a	drag the focused window to the previous workspace
Alt + Tab	focus the next window in the current workspace
Alt + Shift + Tab	focues the previous window in the current workspace
Super + v	toggle the visibility of all windows in the current workspace

Applications keybindings

Key Combo	action	command
Super + s	application launcher	rofi -show drun -theme gruvbox
Super + Return	terminal	alacritty
Super + b	bar	toggles the bar
Shift + Print	screenshot	compilcated long command
Print	screenshot with selection	compilcated long command
Super + F2	increase volume	amixer sset Master 5%+
Super + F1	decrease volume	amixer sset Master 5%-
Alt + F3	media next track	playerctl next
Alt + F2	media previous track	playerctl previous
Alt + F1	media toggle play/pause	playerctl play-pause
Super + F4	increase brightness	brightnessctl set 2%+ -n
Super + F3	decrease brightness	brightnessctl set 2%- -n