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sawfish — Sawfish window manager.

sawfish

Sawfish is a lisp-extensible window manager for X11. Its aim is to allow all areas of window management (decoration, manipulation) to be customized as far as is possible, yet still remain as fast as existing window managers.

Disable internationalization of messages.
Load the Lisp file FILE (from the cwd if possible, implies --batch).
Batch mode: process options and exit.
Interpreted mode: don't load compiled Lisp files.
Call Lisp function FUNCTION.
Load the file of Lisp forms called FUNCTION.
Print version details.
--no-rc
Don't load rc or site-init files.
Terminate the interpreter process.
--5-buttons
Support keyboard layout switching, but drop mouse buttons 6 - 8 support.
Replace the running window manager with Sawfish.

Connect to X display DPY.
Fork a copy of sawfish for each screen.
Preferred VISUAL type.
Preferred color DEPTH.

Overrides the default custom file ~/.sawfish/custom.
Overrides the default window history file ~/.sawfish/window-history.
Do not load the rc file.

Read src/display.c. Don't use it unless you're sure.

Sawfish is documented fully by John Harper available via the Info system.

This manual page was written by Christian Marillat marillat@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).