Features

Reusable tile layouts
A floating window layer above every tiled workspace that can be shown and hidden on command
Powerful commands for changing the focus and moving windows
A history of recently-focused tiles
Pattern-matching on new windows to put them where you want them
Keybinding groups which can be enabled and disabled independently of each other
User-defined event-handling hooks

Download

There are two options:

Get the pre-built binary package with lzma (916K) or gzip (1360K) compression
Get the source package (40K), which can be built with cabal.

Argon is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The full text of the license is included in all download packages in the file LICENSE.

Installation

There are two options:

Manually put the binary, dist/build/argon/argon, somewhere on your execution path.
Run cabal install. Note that the directory to which cabal installs Argon may not be on your execution path.

If you don’t have GHC, the Haskell compiler, you may need to install the GMP library. You almost certainly have all the other dependencies already.

Configuration

You need a configuration file to run Argon. An example configuration is included in both download packages at src/argon.ini. The example was written for a 1920x1200 display and a Dvorak keyboard, so you may not find it directly useful, but it may help you understand how to write your own.

Use

If you start X by running startx, then the script $HOME/.xinitrc is responsible for starting your window manager. But if you use startx, you probably already knew that.

If you use a display manager to start X, like GDM, KDM, or XDM, then you may be able to configure a “custom session” by editing the script $HOME/.xsession. I’m not an expert at this, but if you’re having trouble, ask anyway.

How to use Argon itself depends almost entirely on your configuration file, but there are a few features that are not exposed by the configuration.

Bugs

To report a bug, please send me an email.

It would be helpful for you to include the runtime log of Argon with your bug report.

Development

You can clone the latest sources from GitHub by running:

git clone git://github.com/ktvoelker/argon.git

You can send patches to ktvoelker@gmail.com or send me a pull request on GitHub.