evilwm(1)

NAME
evilwm - Minimalist Window Manager for X

SYNOPSIS
evilwm [ -display display ] [ -term termprog ] [ -fg foreground ] [ -bg background ] [ -bw borderwidth ]

DESCRIPTION
evilwm is a minimalist window manager based on aewm, extended to feature many keyboard controls, and otherwise altered to be more friendly.

The non-obvious flags are: -display display specifies the X display to run on. -term termprog specifies an alternative program to run when Control+Alt+Return is pressed (the default is xterm).

To make evilwm exit, you have to kill the process.

In evilwm , the focus follows the mouse pointer, and focus if not lost is you stray onto the root window. The current window border is shaded gold, with other windows left as a dark grey.

Control+Alt+[HJKLYUBN] moves windows around. Experiment to find out what they do, but you'll have a good idea if you've played nethack.

Control+Alt+Return spawns a new xterm.

Control+Alt+Escape kills the current window.

Control+Alt+Insert lowers the current window.

Alt+Tab moves you to the next window. 'Next' is entirely subjective here.

SEE ALSO
xterm(1).

BUGS
The author's idea of friendly may differ to that of many other people.

Multiple screens are not handled since the move to aewm. I intend to address this.

AUTHOR
Ciaran Anscomb <ciarana@rd.bbc.co.uk>. aewm was written by Decklin Foster <fosterd@hartwick.edu>. 9wm was written by David Hogan <dhog@cs.su.oz.au>.