About

herbstluftwm is a manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib. Its main features can be described with:

• the layout is based on splitting frames into subframes which can be split again or can be filled with windows (similar to i3/musca)
• tags (or workspaces or virtual desktops or ...) can be added/removed at runtime. Each tag contains an own layout
• exactly one tag is viewed on each monitor. The tags are monitor independent (similar to xmonad)
• it is configured at runtime via ipc calls from herbstclient. So the configuration file is just a script which is run on startup. (similar to wmii/musca)

Get It

There aren't any releases yet. You can browse the source in the GitWeb or directly clone the git repository with:

FAQ

Why is herbstluftwm called herbstluftwm?

I liked the name of the e-mail client wanderlust. Unfortunately I am a happy mutt user, so I needed an other application with a similar name.

If the config is a bashscript, does it mean it is called on each keystroke?

No, the configfile is executed once to set internal settings and keybindings and so on. If a keybind is registred and its key is pressed, the according (internal) command directly is called.

Documentation

There are manpages in the doc/ directory. The also can be seen online:

• herbstluftwm
• herbstclient

Support

Feel free to join the IRC channel #herbstluftwm on irc.freenode.net.

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