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h1. What is subtle?\015\012\015\012[[subtle]] is a +manual+ tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of a bunch of predefined layouts, windows are placed on customizeable positions (called [[gravity|gravities]]) inside of a grid. The user can freely modify [[gravity]] definitions and assign [[gravity|gravities]] to windows either manually or via [[tagging|tags]] rules in the [[config]].\015\012\015\012Another unique concept is the +strict+ [[tagging]]: Unlike other tiling window managers, [[subtle]] doesn't allow weak [[tagging]] and always maps windows to virtual desktops (calles [[views]]) with the appropriate [[tagging|tags]] *regardless* of the current active [[views|view]].\015\012\015\012{{column(:start, width: 40%; vertical-align: top)}}\015\012\015\012h2. Features\015\012\015\012* Builtin system tray\015\012* Extendable [[Panel|panel]] (see [[sublets]])\015\012* Customizeable key/mouse actions (see [[Grabs|grabs]])\015\012* Scriptable with "Ruby":http://www.ruby-lang.org (see "rdoc":http://rdoc.subforge.org and [[subtlext]])\015\012* Commandline client (see [[subtler]])\015\012* Window [[tagging]]\015\012* "EWMH":http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html / "ICCCM":http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ / "MWM":http://www.ist.co.uk/motif/books/vol6A/ch-20.fm.html /  "XDG Base Directory":http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html compliant\015\012* "Xinerama":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama / "XRandR":http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR support\015\012\015\012{{column(:mid, width: 60%; background: url(/images/subtlebw.png) right center no-repeat)}}\015\012\015\012{{column(:end)}}\015\012\015\012h2. Where to start?\015\012\015\012{{column(:start)}}\015\012\015\012* *Basics*\015\012* [[Install|Installing subtle]]\015\012* [[Usage|Using subtle]]\015\012* [[Sublets|Using sublets]]\015\012* [[Multihead|Using multihead]]\015\012* [[Themes]]\015\012\015\012{{column(:mid)}}\015\012\015\012* *In depth*\015\012* [[Clients|Understanding clients]]\015\012* [[Tagging|Understanding tagging]]\015\012* [[Gravity|Understanding gravity]]\015\012* [[Styles|Understanding styles]]\015\012* [[Panel|Customizing panel]]\015\012* [[Grabs|Configuring keys]]\015\012* [[Hooks|Hooking events]]\015\012\015\012{{column(:mid)}}\015\012\015\012* *Hacking*\015\012* [[Hacking|Hacking subtle]]\015\012* [[Writing_sublets|Writing sublets]]\015\012* [[Scripting]]\015\012* [[Snippets]]\015\012* [[Blamelist]]\015\012\015\012{{column(:mid)}}\015\012\015\012* *Problems*\015\012* "Frequently asked..":http://subforge.org/ezfaq/index/subtle\015\012* [[bugs|Reporting a bug]]\015\012\015\012{{column(:end)}}\015\012\015\012{{column(:start)}}\015\012\015\012h2. Contribute\015\012\015\012In case you want to help but don't know how, please help with some documentation and improve the wiki or make a donation. Patches, suggestions and open discussions are always welcome.\015\012\015\012{{pledgie}}\015\012\015\012{{column(:mid)}}\015\012\015\012h2. Problems?\015\012\015\012* Join *#subtle* on *irc.freenode.org* (IRC)\015\012* Use the "bugtracker":http://subforge.org/projects/subtle/issues\015\012* Ask in the "forum":http://subforge.org/projects/subtle/boards\015\012* Drop a mail to _chkappel_ at _subforge_ dot _org_\015\012\015\012{{column(:end)}}\015\012\015\012h2. License\015\012\015\012This code can be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2. See the file COPYING for details.\015\012\015\012h2. Read more\015\012\015\012"Ohloh":https://www.ohloh.net/p/subtle, "Rubyforge":http://rubyforge.org/projects/subtle/, "Freshmeat":http://freshmeat.net/projects/subtle, "Sourceforge":http://sourceforge.net/projects/subtle-wm/, "Archlinux Wiki":http://wiki.archlinux.org, "Archlinux Forum":http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=71783, "Gentoo Forum":http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-825036.html