About

page is mouse friendly tiling window manager for linux. page organizes windows in tiles and groups them in tabs. It allow to reconfigure dynamically tile and tabs with your mouse pointer. page can be used with desktop environment that allow to replace the window manager, for instance MATE or XFCE.

page is under development and implement ICCCM and EWMH. It is implemented in C++11 and depend on Xlib, xcb, glib, pango and cairo. The code is distributed under GPLv3.

Features

Supported features:

• Tiling Window manager,
• Mouse friendly,
• Drag&Drop tabs,
• Floating windows,
• Internal compositor,
• Multiple monitor support,
• Multiple desktop.

Install on gentoo

An ebuild is available in the official gentoo repository, thus just do:

 $ emerge x11-wm/page

page package is marked as unstable on amd64 and x86, you may have to add the corresponding keywords as emerge may suggest.

Also, note that, the page executable is renamed to /usr/bin/pagewm because /usr/bin/page is used by another package.

That's it, now you may want use page with Mate desktop environment, folow instruction of the next section.

page is a standalone window manager, but it doesn't include a full desktop environment. In order to use page you need to integrate it into an existing desktop environment. While page can be used in any desktop environment that allow to replace the window manager, I recommend to use Mate desktop environment, mainly because I use page in this environment. To install Mate in several linux distribution you can follow instruction here.

Setup Mate session to use page

You can permanently replace the default window manager of Mate, which is marco, by page with the following command lines in terminal while your are loged in Mate desktop environment:

 $ dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager page
 $ dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set org.mate.session required-components-list \
       [\'windowmanager\',\ \'panel\']

you can now logout then login within mate-desktop with page as windows manager.

Revert Mate session to default

If you want revert back to the legacy window manager of Mate, login in a console and run :

 $ gsettings set org.mate.session.required-components windowmanager marco
 $ gsettings set org.mate.session required-components-list \
     [\'windowmanager\',\ \'panel\',\ \'filemanager\']

and log-in again.

Configuration

page has a system default configuration file: /usr/share/page/page.conf. You can override default setting with the $HOME/.page.conf file. The easiest way to override the configuration is to copy /usr/share/page/page.conf to $HOME/.page.conf with:

 $ cp /usr/share/page/page.conf $HOME/.page.conf

then edit the $HOME/.page.conf file with your favourite text editor.

Defaults Shortcut

Default shortcut use ctrl, alt and mod4 meta key. mod4 is Windows key on window or the apple key on MacOS. Many shortcut can be changed in the configuration file.

General shortcuts:

• mod4 + q : terminate page,
• ctrl + alt + Left : go to the left workspace,
• ctrl + alt + Right : go to the right workspace
• mod4 + v : turn the selected window to fullscreen
• mod4 + b : bind the selected window
• mod4 + c : unbind the selected window

Shortcuts for floating windows:

• alt + right mouse button : resize window
• alt + left mouse button : move window

Shortcuts bound windows:

• alt + left mouse button : drag&drop to move window

Shortcut fullscreen windows:

• alt + left mouse button : drag&drop to change window screen