NAME

subtle - a grid-based manual tiling window manager

SYNOPSIS

subtle OPTIONS

DESCRIPTION

subtle is a manual tiling window manager with a rather uncommon approach of tiling: Instead of relying on predefined layouts, subtle divides the screen into a grid with customizeable slots (called gravities). For better understanding, the default config uses a 3x3 grid and maps each gravity to one key of the numpad. With those keys, windows can be moved directly to the desired gravity - the same can be done with tagging rules in the config.

Another unique concept is the strict tagging: Unlike other tiling window managers, subtle doesn´t allow weak tagging and always maps windows to virtual desktops (called views) with matching tags, regardless of the current active view.

OPTIONS

-c, --config=CONFIG
Load config
-d, --display=DISPLAY
Connect to DISPLAY
-h, --help
Show this help and exit
-k, --check
Check config syntax
-n, --no-randr
Disable RandR extension (required for Twinview)
-r, --replace
Replace current window manager
-s, --sublets=DIR
Load sublets from DIR
-v, --version
Show version info and exit
-l, --level=LEVEL[,LEVEL] Set logging levels
-D, --debug
Print debugging messages

LOGLEVELS

subtle uses a loglevel system to distinguish between messages and to be able to turn certain messages off. The level can be set with the -l or --level= options, multiple values are comma separated without any whitespace.

subtle -l ruby,subtlext
subtle --level=ruby,subtlext

Default levels:

warnings Warning messages
sublet Sublet warnings
error Error messages
deprecated Deprecation warnings

Debugging levels:

events Information about handled events
ruby Ruby debugging messages
xerror X11 error messages
subtlext Debugging messages of subtlext
subtle Subsystem messages of subtle
debug General debugging messages

GETTING STARTED

To get started with subtle just follow the install instructions, have a look in the INSTALL file in the tarball or check if there is a package for your distribution. If no package is available and you want to supply one you are welcome.

Next step after installing is configuring. subtle follows the XDG specifications, therefore can the default system config be found in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/subtle or in /etc/xdg/subtle. If you prefer a user based config just copy the system config to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/subtle or to $HOME/.config/subtle.

If you update the config please check it with subtle -k first before starting subtle.

Inside of subtle just press Win+Return to launch a xterm which usually starts at center gravity. Once you have a client you can play with gravites to get used to the system. It´s really easy and straight forward, just try the various combinations of Win+Numpad number.

BUGS

Report bugs at http://subforge.org/projects/subtle/issues
Homepage: http://subtle.subforge.org