• Sawflibs
  • sawfilbs.xmobar
  • sawflibs.util
  • sawflibs.tile

Sawflibs

A collection of libraries for Sawfish.

sawfilbs.xmobar

This module exports two procedures:

- activate-xmobar, which takes the name of an Xmobar configuration file and starts an xmobar instance, piping to its standard input a list of currently active namespaces and the title of the currently focused window. If an xmobar is already running, activate-xmobar will kill it before starting the new one.

• activate-xmobar-prop, which takes a symbol representing an X atom name, and sets the corresponding X property to the value described above. This one is useful is you use XMonadProp (instead of StdinReader) in your xmobar configuration (in which case you will pass '_XMONAD_LOG as the property to be set.

Both procedures accept the following keyword arguments:

• width Maximum width of the displayed window title
• foreground Foreground color for workspace names
• highlight Highlight color for current workspace name

sawflibs.util

Utility functions for rep programming.

• take N LST
• group-by LST N

sawflibs.tile

NOTE: A version this module is available in sawfish since version 1.9.91, see docs there.

Tilings for your workspaces. These are the exported interactive commands:

• tile-workspace Tiles the current workspace with the active, registered tiling, if any.
• next-tiling Cycles through available tilings for this workspace.
• increase-max-windows, decrease-max-windows For tall tiling, increases/decreases the number of visible windows.
• tall-rotate-left, tall-rotate-left For tall tiling, rotate the tile left or right.

Currently there are 2 tilings available:

• tall tile Use tall-tiling to add to a given workspace. It works as xmonad's tall layout: one master window on the left, and the rest stacked on its right. The function takes a workspace number as its first argument plus the following keyword arguments:

  • width The master window will take (screen-width)/width pixels (default: 2).
  • top, bottom Top and bottom margins, in pixels (default: 0).
  • gap Spacing between adjacent windows, in pixels (default: 0).
  • max Maximum number of visible windows (default: 3).
  • auto A boolean or predicate indicating whether tiling should happen automatically whenever a new window is created (default: t).

• column tile Divide the screen in the given number of columns and distributed windows among them. All columns have the same width and the window width is resized to fit in (its height is left untouched). The function to register a column tiling is col-tiling, which again takes the workspace number as its first argument and the following keyword args:

  • cols number of columns (default: 3)
  • top, bottom, gap as above.
  • auto as above, but defaults to false.

Sample usage:

  (require 'sawflibs.tile.tile)
  (tall-tiling 3 #:width 2 #:top 0 #:bottom 1 #:gap 1 #:max 3)
  (tall-tiling 1 #:width 3 #:top 20 #:bottom 3 #:gap 1 #:max 2 #:auto #f)
  ;; we can have more than one tiling per workspace, and
  ;; switch among them with 'next-tiling':
  (tall-tiling 0 #:width 3 #:top 20 #:bottom 20 #:gap 1 #:max 2 #:auto #f)
  (col-tiling 0 #:cols 3 #:gap 2 #:top 40 #:bottom 20)
  ;; here's a tiling that will only act on urxvt windows:
  (tall-tiling 2 #:auto (lambda (w) (equal "URxvt" (window-class w))))

  (bind-keys global-keymap
             "F12" 'tile-workspace
             "Super-=" 'increase-max-windows
             "Super--" 'decrease-max-windows
             "Super-Space" 'next-tiling)