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 (HTM) Author: z3bra <willy@mailoo.org>
       Date:   Thu,  8 Jan 2015 21:41:23 +0100
       
       New article released !
       
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         M config.mk                           |       3 ++-
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 (DIR) diff --git a/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.txt b/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.txt
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       +# [You are the WM](#)
       +## &mdash; 08 January, 2015
       +
       +A window manager is a program that runs in the background, and give you keybinds
       +and/or mouse moves to move/resize and arrange your windows on your screen.
       +
       +Abbreviated "WM", the window manager is an important part of your system,
       +because without it, you'd probably end up with all your windows pop in the
       +bottom left hand-corner of your screen, unable to switch between them.
       +
       +But guess what...
       +
       +### You don't need it !
       +
       +It's a fact. A
       +[study](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/11/health/11anim.html) determined that
       +some rat could be able to determine which language you are speaking. But that's
       +totally unrelated here, I agree.
       +
       +What is a window manager ?
       +
       +<q>It's a program !</q> woah. Thank you Timmy.
       +
       +A window manager is a program (thank you Timmy) that runs in the background, and
       +wait for X events (I wont talk about wayland here).  Those X events can be of
       +any form: key press, window creation/deletion, mouse move, and so on.
       +
       +The most used events being the keypress events, because the window manager will
       +perform different actions to arrange you windows.
       +
       +With [dcat](http://vps.iotek.org/~dcat), we realized that some programs (sxhkd,
       +xbindkeys and others) already handle those events, and could start programs when
       +receiving them. Following the Ô so true Unix way, we decided to create a set of
       +small tools to perform all the task a window manager is supposed to do.
       +
       +We ended up with [wmutils](http://github.com/wmutils/core).
       +
       +### Coreutils, for Xorg
       +
       +This project aims to provide all the tools needed to manage a list of X windows,
       +while keeping each tool as simple as possible, so that they can easily be glued
       +together to create complex behaviors.
       +
       +Using wmutils, you can list windows, move/resize/teleport them, change their
       +borders, change their visibility, stacking order, ignore them, focus them, and
       +more...
       +
       +It's power reside in its simplicity. As you can chain commands together, you
       +could easily perform some action that other WM can't even do.
       +
       +For example, here is how you kill all the windows that are not shown on screen
       +(eg, attached to other workspaces):
       +
       +    lsw -u | xargs killw
       +
       +Put a window in the top-left corner ? pff. easy:
       +
       +    wtp 0 0 $(wattr whi `$pfw`)
       +
       +bottom-left corner ?
       +
       +    wid=$(pfw)
       +    w=$(wattr w $wid)
       +    h=$(wattr h $wid)
       +    fh=$(wattr h `lsw -r`)
       +
       +    wtp 0 $((fh - h)) $(wattr whi $wid))
       +
       +You get the idea. As a matter of fact, the following as been done using ONLY\*
       +wmutils tools:
       +
       +[![gif showing floating
       +mode](http://blog.z3bra.org/img/thumb/floater.gif)](http://blog.z3bra.org/img/floater.gif)
       +[![gif showing tiling
       +mode](http://blog.z3bra.org/img/thumb/tiler.gif)](http://blog.z3bra.org/img/tiler.gif)
       +
       +<span class="caption">\*only exception is the use of x-move-resize from
       +[no-wm](https://github.com/patrickhaller/no-wm), which is planned to be added to
       +wmutils anyway)</span>
       +
       +Check out the "[contrib](http://github.com/wmutils/contrib)" repo. There are
       +some nice scripts in there !
       +
       +Now throw your window manager away, you don't need it anymore. **YOU ARE THE WM
       +!**
       +
       +<!-- vim: set ft=markdown ts=4 et tw=80: -->
 (DIR) diff --git a/config.mk b/config.mk
       t@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ PAGES   =   index.html \
                    2014/08/shred-configh.html \
                    2014/09/backup-someone.html \
                    2014/11/avoid-workspaces.html \
       -            2014/12/so-tox-me-maybe.html
       +            2014/12/so-tox-me-maybe.html \
       +            2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html
        
        FEEDS = rss/feed.xml
        EXTRA = css img vid errors favicon.ico
 (DIR) diff --git a/index.txt b/index.txt
       t@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
       +* 0x0013 - [You are the WM](/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html)
        * 0x0012 - [So tox me maybe](/2014/12/so-tox-me-maybe.html)
        * 0x0011 - [Avoid workspaces](/2014/11/avoid-workspaces.html)
        * 0x0010 - [Backup, someone ?](/2014/09/backup-someone.html)