A collection of C programs created to make use of X with no window managers (or window managers lacking certain features) more tolerable.

wmcontrib consists (currently) of 9 programs. They are:
wtfc: window transfer focus cardinal
wtsr: window teleport screen relative
wrsr: window resize screen relative
cfw: currently focused window
wsft: window shift
wsrz: window resize
wuc: window under cursor
BETA
wucm: window under cursor move
wucr: window under cursor resize

wtfc was created to make up for the lack of (in a no-wm setup), what I deem the core feature of tiling window managers; being able to focus neighbouring windows using the keyboard. wtfc was designed to be a little more useful than that. You can pass arguments to wtfc to focus or to not focus the window it finds. This could be useful if you wanted to hack together a bash script to swap a window with a neighbouring window. Obviously this has more potential, but I will leave that to the user. Below you see an example of using wtfc to focus the windows to the left (-lf) and to the right (-rf) of the currently focused window. The gif also shows the window ids via cfw to demonstrate the output of wtfc.

Note that in some window managers, wtfc will NOT be able to focus the windows it finds due to the way some wms control window focusing.

Note: This program has just under gone a name change. wtsr is what used to be wmvc. Apologies if this breaks anyones' binds.

wtsr came about because I often would create a urxvt instance, set it to floating and then I'd drag it to a corner with my mouse. For instance, having a separate urxvt for svn, git or just for compiling the project. wtsr was designed to speed up/replace this process. Instead you can use wtsr to move a given window to a location, relative to the screen it is on. For instance, running wtsr -x 1 -y 1 -w $(cfw) will send the currently focused window to the bottom right corner of the screen it is currently on. -x and -y take doubles. This means you could do wtsr -x 0.7593 -y 0.5 -w $(cfw) to send the currently focused window to the middle of the screen in the y, 75.93% of the way to the right. Examples where -x and -y = 0, 1, 0.5 and -x = 0.5 -y = 0.7593 are shown below.

wrsr works similarly to wtsr. It takes 1 or 2 ratios representing a width, height, or both and resizes a given window to those ratios relative to the screen it is on. For instance, wrsr -w 1 -h 1 -W $(cfw) will resize the currently focused window to the full size of the screen it was on when the call was made. Note that this does not include borders so part of the window may appear off screen. To take in account border sizes, use the -b flag. wrsr -w 1 -h 1 -W $(cfw) -b will resize the window to the full size of the screen, accounting for border width. Just like wtsr, wrsr accepts doubles. A call of wrsr -w 0.252525 -h 0.00001 -W $(cfw) will resize the width to 25.2525% of the screen width and make the height 0.001% of the height. In cases where either the new width or height would be 0, the program sets it (or them) to 1, because you cannot have a window with a width or height or 0. Examples where -w and -h = 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1 are shown below.

Simply prints the currently focused window's id. Takes no arguments. Prints out an error to stderr and returns a non-zero number if the currently focused window cannot be found.

This was created out of necessity in case one needs programs in this directory but doesn't want to install wmutils. I used wmutil's pfw for a long time, but I feel that this repo shouldn't "depend" (most of my binds that use the programs in this repo use pfw) so heavily on something from another repo.

Very basic program that just shifts a given window by a given amount in the x or y direction. I didn't like how wmutils wmv didn't allow you to move the window outside of the screen borders. Sometimes I like to have the window just peeking onto the screen (if I'm running a MySql or testing a server program of mine that I want to check on only once in a while). Similarly to cfw, I also like not depending on yet another part of wmutils. The gif below showcases a user moving a window in a loop pattern by moving it 50 pixels at a time in a given direction. 2 of the commands used are: wsft -x -50 -y 0 -w $(cfw) -m and wsft -x 0 -y 50 -w $(cfw) -m.

Also a basic program. Modifies the size of the given window by the given amount in the dimension (width or height). This came about as a complement to wsft because if this repo was going to contain programs to shift the windows, it should have ones to resize them too. The gif below showcases a user resizing a window by adding or subtracting 50 pixels at a time in a given dimension. 2 of the commands used are: wrsz -w 50 -h 0 -W $(cfw) -r and wrsz -w 0 -h -50 -W $(cfw) -r.

Fairly important program for pure X usage in my opinion. Simply outputs the id of the window under the cursor, if there is one. Using the -f flag, it will attempt to focus the window it finds as well. By binding wuc -f to mouse 1, you can have click-to-focus functionality without a window manager. In the gif below, a user hovers their mouse over 2 windows running the command wuc -f once the mouse is over the window they wish to focus.

Note that in some window managers, wuc will NOT be able to focus the windows it finds due to the way some wms control window focusing.

The two programs below are currently being renamed. Until suitable names are found, and other kinks have been sorted out, they are not recommended for use.

Coming soon...

Coming soon...

• Write wucm and wucr man pages, readme overviews.
• Make wucm and wucr gifs
• Maybe more zoomed in wsft and wrsz gifs?