[edit] Sawfish - Window Manager

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[edit] Official Sawfish website

Welcome to the Sawfish website.

Sawfish is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage 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 functionality 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 is readily available.

Sounds interesting? Take a look at the Screenshots to see Sawfish in action!

[edit] Meet the community

Many people are interested in Sawfish. You can meet other users and the people maintaining Sawfish on the Mailing list (archives) or chat with them on IRC.

[edit] About this site

Yes, this site is a Wiki. Since Sawfish has become a community effort it is only fair that the community is in charge of Sawfish's website. That means if something is wrong or missing you can fix it.

If you are new to the wiki concept take a look at our Wiki portal to get started. We are currently editing over 575 pages and rely on your help to keep the number growing.

[edit] Download

Current release:

Sawfish 1.3.3

Latest sources:

Browse current SVN

Howto download current SVN

[edit] Latest News

• 2008 02 18: Sawfish 1.3.3 released
• 2008 02 05: Bugfix release 1.3.3 in two weeks
• 2008 01 20: Sawfish 1.3.2 released
• 2008 01 14: One week patches deadline for 1.3.2
• 2007 07 27: Sawfish 1.3.1 released

All news ...

[edit] Recent Additions

Documentation

• 12 05 2008: User Guide
• 11 05 2008: Enabling transparency
• 07 05 2008: Compilation on Slackware 12
• 25 04 2008: Third-party software

Scripts

• 12 05 2008: Merlin
• 05 05 2008: Win-align
• 04 05 2008: Restore-focus
• 17 02 2008: Autohide pager

Themes

• 27 11 2007: Candido
• 12 08 2007: ZenBlend
• 12 08 2007: Yellowcurve-Prion
• 12 08 2007: Surgical

Patches

• 13 05 2008: Decorations toolbar windows
• 11 05 2008: Shade-focus
• 13 03 2008: Focus window without raise
• 02 03 2008: Parallel make patch

• patch hunting: Missing patches