92 lines
4.6 KiB
Org Mode
92 lines
4.6 KiB
Org Mode
#+TITLE: EXWM layer
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#+TAGS: layer|tool
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[[file:img/spacemacsOS.jpg]]
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* Table of Contents :TOC_5_gh:noexport:
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- [[#description][Description]]
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- [[#features][Features:]]
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- [[#install][Install]]
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- [[#layer][Layer]]
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- [[#note-about-display-managers][Note about Display Managers]]
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- [[#not-having-display-managers][Not having Display Managers]]
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- [[#osx][OSX]]
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- [[#key-bindings][Key bindings]]
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** Description
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The time has arrived when one can finally use Emacs as a Window Manager, long
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ago the concepts of *windows* and *frames* made so much sense when one was
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working in a TTY, and basically that's all the window management you got. In
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these *modern* times though, it sounds silly to have those names. But not
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Anymore!
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Thanks to @ch11ng and his [[https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm][EXWM]] project we can now use Emacs as our window
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manager, and all those *windows* that didn't make sense before, now can not only
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hold buffers, but X Windows, that means that you can spawn a Browser Window, or
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your music player, or anything.
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I urge you to read the [[https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki][EXWM Wiki]] for a more in depth explanation and if you can
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contribute, please do so! The purpose of me making this layer is that I find it
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awesome and having nice defaults would make more people dive into it and the
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project would receive more attention and contributions which will only make it
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more awesome, so if you try it and like it, share it!
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** Features:
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- Support for using Spacemacs as window manager
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** Install
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To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
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add =exwm= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
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file.
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*** Note about Display Managers
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This is most common among Ubuntu and derivative users:
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LightDM, GDM, and other Display managers that need a session file will need you
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to copy the [[file:files/exwm.desktop][desktop file]] I bundled with this layer to
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~/usr/local/xsessions/exwm.desktop~, that's what I used on my Ubuntu box, but
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make sure the [[file:files/exwm-start][exwm-start script]] is in your PATH, you can put it in
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~/usr/local/bin/exwm-start~ and that should be enough, next time you log out,
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select the EXWM session instead of the Ubuntu one and you should be alright.
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*** Not having Display Managers
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If you use Arch, Gentoo, or any other Linux, most probably you'll start your
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configurations via a ~.xinitrc~ file, just append ~exwm-start~ to the end of
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that file and you should be fine. I do recommend to check the [[https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki][EXWM Wiki]] for more
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details.
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*** OSX
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If you are an OSX user, please report back on whether this works with xQuartz,
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always back up your data before attempting to try stuff like this.
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** Key bindings
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As other window managers the ~s~ or *Super* key (Windows Key) is the one that
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is the prefix to every action. We'll use a lot of ~s~.
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I have, for convenience, disabled the use of ~C-x~ and ~C-c~ in X windows,
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mainly because that's something we could use for Cutting and Copying text, but if
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you want you can enable it, this layer focuses on less Emacs-y bindings.
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| Key Binding | Description |
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|-----------------------+------------------------------------------------|
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| ~C-q~ | Send next key pressed to the X window |
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| ~C-'~ | Pop shell |
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| ~C-g~ | Universal GetMeOuttaHere Key from Emacs |
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| ~C-u~ | Universal Argument |
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| ~C-[0-9]~ | Universal Prefix for [0-9] |
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| ~M-m~ | Spacemacs Leader Key |
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| ~s-[1 2 3 ... 8 9 0]~ | Switch to workspace [1 2 3 ... 8 9 10] |
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| ~s-TAB~ | Switch to last workspace |
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| ~s-w~ | Workspace Switch Menu (kinda like micro-state) |
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| ~s-r~ | Reset window state |
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| ~s-SPC~ | App Launcher |
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| ~s-ESC~ | Lock Screen |
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| ~s-:~ and ~s-;~ | Helm M-x (same as ~SCP :~) |
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| ~s-u,U~ | Undo, Redo window configurations |
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| ~s-b~ | Show all opened buffers |
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| ~s-h,j,k,l~ | Switch to left,lower,upper,right window |
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| ~s-H,J,K,L~ | Move window to far left,down,lower,upper,right |
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| ~M-s-h,j,k,l~ | Resizing (try them, it's too hard to explain) |
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| ~s-[,]~ | Switch to prev,next workspace |
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