Using rio

Windows are created, deleted and rearranged using the mouse. Clicking (pressing and releasing) mouse button 1 in a non-current window makes that window current and brings it in front of any windows that happen to be overlapping it. When the mouse cursor points to the background area or is in a window that has not claimed the mouse for its own use, pressing mouse button 3 activates a menu of window operations provided by rio. Releasing button 3 then selects an operation. At this point, a gunsight or cross cursor indicates that an operation is pending. The button 3 menu operations are:

New

Create a window. Press button 3 where one corner of the new rectangle should appear (cross cursor), and move the mouse, while holding down button 3, to the diagonally opposite corner. Releasing button 3 creates the window, and makes it current. Very small windows may not be created. The new window is created running termprog, by default or, if 9term is not available,

Resize

Change the size and location of a window. First click button 3 in the window to be changed (gunsight cursor). Then sweep out a window as for the New operation. The window is made current.

Move

Move a window to another location. After pressing and holding button 3 over the window to be moved (gunsight cursor), indicate the new position by dragging the rectangle to the new location. The window is made current. Windows may be moved partially off-screen.

Delete

Delete a window. Click in the window to be deleted (gunsight cursor). Deleting a window causes a note to be sent to all processes in the window's process group (see

Hide

Hide a window. Click in the window to be hidden (gunsight cursor); it will be moved off-screen. Each hidden window is given a menu entry in the button 3 menu according to its current window system label.

label

Restore a hidden window.

Windows may also be arranged by dragging their borders. Pressing button 1 or 2 over a window's border allows one to move the corresponding edge or corner, while button 3 moves the whole window.

When the mouse cursor points to the background area and rio has been started with multiple virtual screens using the -virtuals option, clicking button 2 brings up a menu to select a virtual screen to view. Scrolling the mouse wheel while the cursor points at the background will cycle through the virtual screens.

Xshove moves or resizes every window whose X11 class or instance strings contain name. The rectangle argument can be widthxheight, widthxheight@xmin,xmax, 'xmin ymin xmax ymax', or xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax. A leading + or - causes the rectangle to be interpreted as a delta: nudges a window to the right, while grows a window. With no arguments, xshove lists all the current X windows. Xshove is not specific to rio and can be used with other window managers.