Ion
Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard
users in mind.
Ion divides the screen into tiles and places windows in these
tiles by
default. Each tile has a set of tabs for the windows
within it. It also allows windows to be made 'floating' and placed
freely. Ion can be controlled through the keyboard alone or together
with a mouse.
Ion comes pre-configured with a number of useful functions
that you run by typing the function keys. It can be configured and
extended using the Lua language. It
also supports extension modules written in C.
Features include:
- Tiled workspaces with tabbed frames
- Designed to be primarily used from the keyboard
- Fully documented configuration and scripting
interface on top of the lightweight Lua extension language
- Modular design
- The query module implements a line editor similar to mini
buffers
in many text editors. It is used to implement many different
queries with tab-completion support: show manual page, run
program, open SSH session, view file, goto named client window
or workspace, etc. Menus are also displayed as queries
- A statusbar that adapts to the tilings, taking only the
space it
really needs, modulo constraints of the layout. The statusbar can also
be configured to swallow other (small) windows, and does so
automatically for Window Maker protocol dockapps, and KDE-protocol
system tray icons
- Full screen client windows are seen as workspaces on their
own.
It is possible to switch to a normal workspace while keeping
several client windows in full screen state and also switch clients
that do not themselves support full screen mode to this state
- The scratchpad module provides a conveniently toggleable
area
for random tasks, akin to the consoles of many FPS games
- Supports
floating windows of the PWM flavour. These can be had as separate
workspaces without an underlying tiling, or floating on top of a
tiling. Tiled windows can be detached to float, and reattached
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