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Sawfish - Window Manager[]

Official Sawfish website[]

Welcome to the Sawfish website.

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using aLisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimalcompared to most window managers. Its aim is simply tomanage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. All high-level WM functions are implemented in Lisp for future extensibility or redefinition. These are some of the features that set Sawfish apart from other window managers:

Powerful key-binding: Virtually every function provided by Sawfish can be bound to keys (or mouse buttons).
Event hooking: For many events (moving windows etc.) you can customize the way Sawfish will respond.
Window matching: When windows are created you can match them to a set of rules and automatically perform actions on them.
Flexible theming: Sawfish allows for very different themes to be created and a variety of third-party themes are readily available.

Does this sound interesting? Take a look at theScreenshots to see Sawfish in action!

Meet the community[]

Many people are interested in Sawfish. You can meet other users and thepeople maintaining Sawfish on theMailing list (Archives:Tuxfamily (new)GNOME (old)) or chat with them onIRC.

About this site[]

Yes, this site is aWiki.Since Sawfish has become a community effort itis only fair that the community be in charge ofSawfish's website. That means if something iswrong or missingyou have the power to fix it.

If you are new to the wiki concept take a lookat ourWiki portal to get started.We are currently editing over774 pages and rely onyour help to keep the number growing.