Simple Window Manager

NOTE: This repo is not maintained.

SWM is a utility to place and resize windows, written for Ubuntu. It might work with other *nix distributions.

SWM has been confirmed not to work with OS X. Please help fix this :)

$ gem install swm

Some command line tools are needed:

• xdotool (for getting window id of current window)
• wmctrl (for moving and resizing windows)
• xdpyinfo (for getting screen dimensions)
• xwininfo (for getting window information)

Install these with apt-get if they are not on your system.

SWM is meant to be assigned to shortcuts and will always work on the currently active window.

For example, I have configured my Super-1 - Super-4 to place the current window in the four corners of my screen.

Move windows with the move subcommand. It accepts parameters x and y which can both be specified in percentages of free screen space.

Examples:

swm move --x 50 --y 50

Will center the window

swm move --x 0 --y 100

Will move the window to the top right corner

Resize windows with the resize command It accepts x, y, width and height.

Example:

swm resize --x 10 --y 10 --width 80 --height 80

Will resize and move the window so that it has 10% of the screen size to all screen edges.

1. Fork 8t
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request