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NAME

       Notion - an X11 window manager

SYNOPSIS

       notion [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Notion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.

OPTIONS

       -display host:display.screen
              X display to manage

       -conffile configfile
              Configuration file to use instead of default

       -searchdir dir
              Directory to search for configuration files and other scripts

       -oneroot
              On  X servers with multiple (traditional non-Xinerama) screens, manage only default
              screen (root window), not all, as given by the -display option or  in  the  DISPLAY
              environment variable.

       -session session_name
              Set  session name. This option affects where workspace and other save files are put
              (~/.notion/session_name if option set).

       -help  Show help on command line options

       -version
              Show version

       -about Show about text (version, author, license)

BASIC CONCEPTS

       This section is an overview of the types objects that appear on an X  display  managed  by
       Notion  and  their  relationships  in  a  standard setup. This information is necessary to
       understand the operations and availability of the different key bindings explained  below.
       For  a  more detailed explanation, needed for writing custom bindings configuration files,
       see the additional documentation available from the Notion Web page.

       The top-level objects that matter in the case at hand are  screens.   They  correspond  to
       physical  screens.  Screens  contain  workspaces  (which  are a kind of group), and client
       windows put into full screen mode. These objects are multiplexed in the  sense  that  only
       one can be displayed at a time.

       Workspaces  themselves  may  contain  tilings  and  detached/floating  frames. A workspace
       containing no tilings and  only  detached/floating  windows  is  also  called  a  floating
       workspace.  Tilings  themselves  contain  frames  tiled to fill the screen, and possibly a
       statusbar or dock. Akin to screens, frames multiplex  other  objects,  but  in  this  case
       mostly client window groups. Most of the time, frames are the only trace of Notion you see
       on the screen. Frames  may  have  border  decorations,  and  they  have  a  tab  for  each
       multiplexed object.

       Queries  are  boxes that appear at the bottoms of frames or screens to ask you for textual
       input to execute an action that depends on it.  Most queries support tab-completion.

BINDINGS

       These are the default key and pointer bindings. (Mod1) depends on  your  system.  On  PC:s
       with XFree86 it is probably bound to the left Alt key (Alt_L). On Suns it is usually bound
       to the diamond keys (Meta_L, Meta_R). Use xmodmap(1x) to find out.

       The string in square brackets after a binding group heading  below  indicates  the  module
       whose configuration file defines these bindings.

   Globally available bindings
       Mod1+1, Mod1+2, Mod1+3, Mod1+4, Mod1+5, Mod1+6, Mod1+7, Mod1+8, Mod1+9, Mod1+0
              Switch to n:th object (workspace, full screen client window) within current screen.

       Mod1+comma, Mod1+period
              Switch to next/previous object within current screen.

       Mod1+K K
              Go to first region demanding attention or previously active one.

       Mod1+K T
              Clear all tags.

       Mod1+Shift+1, Mod1+Shift+2
              Go to n:th screen on multihead setup.

       Mod1+Shift+comma, Mod1+Shift+period
              Go to next/previous screen on multihead setup.

       Mod1+F9
              Create a new workspace of chosen default type.

       F12, Button3 press
              Display the main menu.

       Button2 press
              Display the window list menu.

       Mod1+Tab
              Forward-circulate focus.

       Mod1+K Tab
              Backward-circulate focus.

       Mod1+K R
              Raise focused object, if possible.

   Bindings operating on all frames and screens
       Mod1+C Close current object.

   Bindings operating on all frames
       Mod1+K H, Mod1+K V
              Maximize the frame horizontally/vertically.

       Button3 press
              Display context menu.

       Mod1+R Begin move/resize mode.

       Button1 click at tab, Button2 click at tab
              Switch the frame to display the object indicated by the tab.

       Button1 drag at border, Mod1+Button3 drag
              Resize the frame.

       Mod1+Button1 drag
              Move the frame.

       Button1 drag at tab, Button2 drag at tab
              Move objects between frames by dragging and dropping the tab.

   Bindings operating on top-level (non-transient) frames and screens
       Mod1+T Toggle tag of current object.

       F1     Query for manual page to be displayed.

       Mod1+F1
              Show the Notion manual page.

       F2     Run a terminal emulator.

       F3     Query for command line to execute.

       Mod1+F3
              Query for Lua code to execute.

       F4     Query for host to connect to with SSH.

       F5     Query for file to edit.

       F6     Query for file to view.

       F9     Query for workspace to go to or create a new one.

       Mod1+G Query for a client window to go to.

       Mod1+M Display context menu.

       Mod1+K D
              Detach (float) or reattach an object to its previous location.

   Bindings operating on top-level (non-transient) frames
       Mod1+A Query for a client window to attach.

       Mod1+K  1, Mod1+K 2, Mod1+K 3, Mod1+K 4, Mod1+K 5, Mod1+K 6, Mod1+K 7, Mod1+K 8, Mod1+K 9,
       Mod1+K 0
              Switch to n:th object within the frame.

       Mod1+K N, Mod1+K P
              Switch to next/previous object within the frame.

       Mod1+K comma, Mod1+K period
              Move current object within the frame left/right.

       Mod1+K H, Mod1+K V
              Maximize the frame horizontally/vertically.

       Mod1+K A
              Attach tagged objects to this frame.

   Bindings for floating/detached frames
       Button1 double click at tab
              Toggle shade mode

       Button1 press at tab, Button1 press at border, Mod1+Button1 click
              Raise the frame.

       Mod1+Button3 click
              Lower the frame.

       Button1 drag at tab
              Move the frame.

       Mod1+K B
              Tile frame, if no tiling exists on the workspace

   Bindings for tilings and tiled frames [mod_tiling]
       Mod1+S Split current frame vertically.

       Mod1+P, Mod1+N, Mod1+Tab, Mod1+K Tab
              Go to frame above/below/right/left of current frame.

       Mod1+K S
              Split current frame horizontally.

       Mod1+K X
              Destroy current frame.

   Bindings for client windows
       Mod1+L Nudge the client window. This might help with some programs' resizing problems.

       Mod1+K C
              Kill client owning the client window.

       Mod1+K Q
              Send next key press to the client window. Some  programs  may  not  allow  this  by
              default.

       Mod1+Return
              Toggle client window group full-screen mode

   Move/resize mode bindings
       Escape Cancel the resize mode.

       Return End the resize mode.

       Left, Right, Up, Down, F, B, P, N
              Grow in specified direction.

       Shift+Left, Shift+Right, Shift+Up, Shift+Down, Shift+F, Shift+B, Shift+P, Shift+N
              Shrink in specified direction.

       Mod1+Left, Mod1+Right, Mod1+Up, Mod1+Down, Mod1+F, Mod1+B, Mod1+P, Mod1+N
              Move in specified direction.

   Bindings for message boxes and queries [mod_query]
       Escape, Control+G, Control+C
              Close the query/message box, not executing bound actions.

       Control+U, Control+V, Page_Up, Page_Down
              Scroll the message or completions up/down.

   Bindings for editing in queries [mod_query]
       These  bindings are similar to those of the joe(1) text editor.  Cut, copy and paste works
       in a more conventional manner, though, but the keys are equivalent.

       Control+F, Control+B, Right, Left
              Move one character forward/backward.

       Control+E, Control+A, End, Home
              Go to end/beginning.

       Control+X, Control+Z
              Skip one word forward/backward.

       Control+D, Delete
              Delete next character.

       BackSpace, Control+H
              Delete previous character.

       Control+W, Control+O
              Delete one word forward/backward.

       Control+J
              Delete to end of line.

       Control+Y
              Delete the whole line.

       Control+T
              Transpose characters.

       Control+P, Control+N, Up, Down, Control+Up, Control+Down
              Select next/previous (matching) history entry.

       Button2 click, Control+K C
              Paste from the clipboard.

       Control+K B
              Set mark/begin selection.

       Control+K Y
              Cut selection.

       Control+K K
              Copy selection.

       Control+K G
              Clear mark/cancel selection.

       Tab, Shift+Tab, Control+Tab
              Try to complete the entered text or cycle through completions.

       Control+R, Control+S
              Complete from history

       Control+M, Return, KP_Enter
              Close the query and execute bound action.

   Bindings for menus [mod_menu]
       Escape, Control+G, Control+C, Left
              Close the menu.

       Return, KP_Enter, Control+M, Right
              Activate current menu entry.

       Control+N, Control+P, Up, Down
              Select next/previous menu entry.

       BackSpace
              Clear the menu's typeahead find buffer.

FILES AND DIRECTORIES

       /etc/X11/notion/cfg_notion.lua
              System default main configuration files

       /etc/X11/notion/cfg_*.lua
              Other configuration files.

       /etc/X11/notion/look_*.lua
              Colour scheme configuration files

       ~/.notion/
              User configuration files

       ~/.notion/cfg_notion.lua
              User default main configuration file (overrides system default)

SEE ALSO

       The Notion home page, http://notion.sf.net/

       The document "Configuring and extending Notion with Lua" found in the notion-doc package.

       /usr/share/doc/notion/

       X(7x), pwm3(1), joe(1)

AUTHOR

       Notion was written by the Notion team, based on Ion which was written  by  Tuomo  Valkonen
       <tuomov at iki.fi>.

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