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README for WinWrangler
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WinWrangler is copyright Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen 2008,
<mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com>
The source code is licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3. Make sure you have
read the COPYING file which should be distributed with the project.
WinWrangler is a simple project whose aim is to add additional functionality
to all standards compliant window managers. This means that it should work
under Gnome, KDE and XFCE.
WinWrangler provides a desktop daemon that can be controlled via desktop-wide
hotkeys to do advanced window manipulations that are not normally provided by
the window manager. For example tiling and intelligent expansion of windows.
Features
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* Expand window - expand the currently active window to fill all
available space without overlapping any new windows
* Tile windows - Tile all windows on the current workspace in a grid
* 2/3 layout - Make the active window fill 2/3 of the desktop while arranging
the rest of the windows in the remaining 1/3.
* Spatial window switching - Switch active window to the nearest neighbour
in the up, down, left, or right directions
Hotkeys
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Here follows the defailt hotkeys. They can be manually configured in the file
~/.config/hotkeys/winwrangler.hotkeys
* <Control><Super>1 - Expand window
* <Control><Super>2 - Tile windows
* <Control><Super>3 - 2/3 layout
* <Control><Super>Up|Down|Left|Right - Spatial window switch
Honorable Mentions
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* Mads Villadsen - Build fixes
* Alessio Bolognino - for the 2/3 Layout and initial work on spatial
window switching
* Wouter Bolsterlee - Build- and code cleanup, i18n enabling and
dutch translation
* The Tango team - The WinWrangler icons are based on the Tango window icon
* Vincent Untz, Elijah Newren, and Thomas Thurman for being responsive and
helpful in sorting out bugs in Metacity and libwnck