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Scrotwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries
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to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be
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used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does
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not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It
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was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small,
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compact and fast.
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It was largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. Both are fine products
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but suffer from things like: crazy-unportable-language-syndrome,
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silly defaults, asymmetrical window layout, "how hard can it be?"
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and good old NIH. Nevertheless dwm was a phenomenal resource and
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many good ideas and code was borrowed from it. On the other hand
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xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but
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is crippled by not being written in C.
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Scrotwm is a beautiful pearl! For it too, was created by grinding
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irritation. Nothing is a bigger waste of time than moving windows
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around until they are the right size-ish or having just about any
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relevant key combination being eaten for some task one never needs.
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The path of agony is too long to quote and in classical OpenBSD
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fashion (put up, or hack up) a brand new window manager was whooped
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up to serve no other purpose than to obey its masters. It was
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written by Marco Peereboom & Ryan Thomas McBride and it is released
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under the ISC license.
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