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Use X11 without a window manager
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no-wm Use X11 without a window manager components included x-alt-tab x-move-resize x-session x-focus-manager distributed with X11 xsel xprop xrdb xset xsetroot xwininfo key-daemons xbindkeys http://www.nongnu.org/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html speckeysd http://www.jessies.org/~enh/software/x11/ xchainkeys http://code.google.com/p/xchainkeys/ sxhkd https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd alttab https://github.com/sagb/alttab window-manipulators xdotool http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ window http://www.jessies.org/~enh/software/x11/ niceties unclutter http://unclutter.sourceforge.net/ dmenu http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ autocutsel http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel/ overview http://www.sbin.org/doc/Xlib/index_contents.html procedure set up your ${HOME}/.xinitrc to be something like #!/bin/bash while ! xprop -root | grep -q Free; do sleep 1; done xrdb -merge ${HOME}/etc/Xresources xsetroot -solid black xset b off exec xterm & exec speckeysd ${HOME}/etc/speckeysd.conf & exec x-focus-manager & exec x-session and your ${HOME}/etc/speckeysd.conf to be like # Key names come from <X11/keysymdef.h> (remove the XK_ prefix). # MUST have a Tab separating the key-combo and command Alt-Tab x-alt-tab Alt-Shift-Tab x-alt-tab -1 Alt-Return x-banish push Alt-BackSpace x-banish pop Alt-m x-move-resize Alt-r echo run | dmenu -fn 10x20 | exec bash -s Alt-s surf "$( echo www.duckduckgo.com | dmenu )" Alt-t urxvt & x-focus-topmost wait Alt-f xdotool selectwindow windowsize 100% 100% windowmove 0 0 then ${HOME}/etc/Xresources with the preferred window geometries R_x11*geometry: 1024x600+0+0 XTerm*geometry: 1024x600+0+0 URxvt*geometry: 1024x600+0+0 surf*geometry: 1024x600+0+0 window managers bind orthogonals (keyboard shortcuts, window manipulation, window decoration) which should remain separate. x-focus-manager is not needed when all your apps return focus properly. A mis-behaving app can be fixed by calling x-alt-tab after it runs; however that needs to be scripted as focus remains with a window that no longer exists.
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