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## Yet Another Window Manager?
I went down the path of minimalist window managers a very long time
-ago. I used [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) for many years. I briefly
-tried out both [i3](https://i3wm.org/) and [bspwm](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm). I've relied on [cwm](https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/app/cwm/) for the most recent several years.
+ago. I used [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) for many years. I tried out both
+ [i3](https://i3wm.org/) and [bspwm](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm). I've relied on [cwm](https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/app/cwm/) for the most recent several years.
-One day when I should've been working, I daydreamed about a window
-manager that did nothing more nor less than what I needed a window
-manager to do. That matched my worflow without tweaking or patching
-or scripting or hacking.
+One day not too long ago when I should've been working, I daydreamed
+about a window manager that did nothing more nor less than what I
+needed a window manager to do. That matched my worflow without
+tweaking or patching or scripting or hacking.
-Dreaming led to finding minimal window manager source code, then
+Dreaming led to looking up minimal window manager source code, then
learning to read C code, then designing, then roadmapping, then
-stumbling along writing C code, a lot of trial and error. And voila.
+stumbling along writing C code, a lot of trial and error. And voilà.
Here is yet another window manager. My window manager. __bxwm__.
A stacking window manager that is purposely opinionated regarding
## Build
-To build __bxwm__ from source.
+Compile __bxwm__ from source.
```
make
## Install
-Install the binary and man page. Note that root privileges are not required as the default desination is `$HOME/.local/`.
+Install the binary and man page. Note that root privileges are not
+required as the default desination is `~/.local/`.
```
make install
## Configuration
-__bxwm__ is configured at compile-time by editing config.def.h. After making changes, the program must be recompiled and reinstalled. See bxwm(1) for details.
+__bxwm__ is configured at compile-time by editing config.def.h. After
+making changes, the program must be recompiled and reinstalled. See
+bxwm(1) for details.
## Design & Functionality
__bxwm__ is built around a set of opinionated primitives:
-- Window Sizing & Placement
- - New windows are opened at a golden ratio dimension, centered on the screen
- - Windows can be moved and resized to
- - centered half the width of the screen and full height
- - right half of the screen and full height
- - left half of the screen and full height
- - maximized to full screen height and width, and,
- - back to a small screen centered at a golden ratio dimension.
+ - Window Sizing & Placement
+ - New windows are opened
+ - small, centered on the screen, and,
+ - at a gold ratio dimension.
+ - Windows can be moved and resized to
+ - centered half the width of the screen and full height,
+ - right half of the screen and full height,
+ - left half of the screen and full height,
+ - maximized to full screen height and width, and,
+ - back to a small screen centered.
-- Stacking
- - Windows are maintained in a stack
- - The focus follows the stack order, allowing for rapid movement between the “top” and “bottom” windows.
+ - Stacking
+ - Windows are maintained in a stack.
+ - Window focus follows stack order.
+ - Windows are navigated via key command
+ - next window and
+ - previous window.
-- Workspaces
- - There are 10 distinct workspaces available to organize your environment.
- - Windows can be moved between workspaces, and navigation is persistent.
+ - Workspaces
+ - 10 workspaces available.
+ - Windows can be moved between workspaces via key commands.
+ - Workspaces are navigated via key command.
-Window management commands via hotkeys are sent to __bxwm__ via __bxhkd__.
+Window and workspace management and navigation commands via hotkeys
+are sent to __bxwm__ via __bxhkd__.
-To start __bxwm__, add the following line to your `~/.xinitrc`:
+Add the following lines to `~/.xinitrc` to start __bxwm__.
```
exec bxwm 2> ~/.local/var/log/bxwm.log
