(sawfish.info)Introduction


Introduction
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   Sawfish is a lisp-extensible window manager for X11. Its aim is to
allow all areas of window management (decoration, manipulation) to be
customized as far as is possible, yet still remain as fast or faster
than existing window managers.

   Despite this extensibility its policy is very minimal compared to
most window managers. It does not implement desktop backgrounds,
applications docks, or other things that may be achieved through
separate applications.

   All high-level window management functions are implemented in Lisp
for future extensibility or redefinition. Also, most received events are
exported to the Lisp environment through key-bindings and hooks,
similar to in Emacs. These events include pointer behavior and many
internal X11 events.

   Sawfish uses the librep Lisp environment (*note Overview:
(librep)Top.), this is a run-time library implementing a language
similar to Emacs Lisp (Note: Overview.), but with many
extensions, and using lexical instead of dynamic scope. This manual
assumes at least a basic knowledge of the language.


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