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Lisp scripts contributed by users are here.

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Adopted scripts

Jump-or-exec (adopted)	Focus a specific application, start it if it is not running, or perform custom actions if it's already focused. Note that this script is now included in Sawfish as a command, but unfortunately the person who included it moved the third argument to the fourth, so if you want to use the example below you will need to add 'nil' as the third argument.
Infinite-desktop (adopted)	Makes the size of a workspace infinite.
Maximize-windows-fullscreen (adopted)	Three maximization functions: vertical, horizontal, both.
Tabbed-windowing (adopted)	Tabbed windowing implementation similar to PWM or FluxBox... turns the titlebar into tabs, so that windows can be grouped into a single frame.
Prompt (adopted)
SawTabs (1.0.1) (adopted)	Fluxbox Like Tabs for Sawfish.
Alternative Animators (adopted)	3 Additional Animation/Outline Modes: draft, cross and elliptical
Smart Tile (adopted)	Tile Windows in an intelligent (hah!) way
Shrink-yank (adopted)	Shrink or move windows to overlap with fewer others. This is the opposite of grow-pack.jl in a sense.
Mousetrap (adopted)	Move the mouse to any place of the screen with a few keystrokes by zooming (as much precision as you want).
Emacs	Provides greater integration with emacs.
Background (adopted)	Another background selector.

Emacs

Emacs

Provides greater integration with emacs.

Eye-candy scripts

Focus-transparency	Make windows not in focus translucent.
Native-focus-transparency	Quick hack of Suraj's focus-transparency to remove dependency on transset-df.
Window-alpha	Changes window's opacity depending on focus and adds window's alpha property.

Focus management scripts

Waffle	Combination of Iswitch-window with Jump-or-exec.
Gimme	Lets you configure bindings to bring focus to specific windows or start a program if it doesn't exist.
Focus-by-direction	Move focus to a windows east/west/north/south of the current one.
Iswitch-window	Iswitch is a window switcher with an incremental search.
Wid	Assign to windows short ids and provide shortcuts to switch to them by one key-stroke.
Stop-focus	Adds a focus mode which gives focus to a window only after the pointer enters the window and remains stationary for some time.
Stop-raise	A variant on the Stop-focus mode.
Window-focus-binding	Adds a window binding option to focus a window.
Restore-focus	Restore focus to last "interesting" window when switching to an workspace.
Jumper	Allow to tag windows explicitly with an ID and allow to jump to such marked windows directly.
Viewport save pointer & focus	Each viewport remembers, after switching the viewport, its previously focused window and pointer position, and restores them when the viewport is changed.
App	Yet another focus-or-run script; this one uses cycle-commands.
Cabinet	A tool for window display,search and manipulation

Miscellaneous scripts

Customize-messages	Dialog to customize the look of most messages.
Macros	Emacs-style keyboard macros for sawfish.
Dynamic-menu	Reads a flat text file and converts it into a menu variable.
Animate-move	Smoothly slide windows across the screen.
Better-quote-event	This is an improved version of quote-event that also works with pointer button events.
Panel-integration	Two helper function to pop up the Gnome run and panel main dialog.
Web-development	Useful for web developers.
Program-functions	Six Macros and a couple of functions to start some common programs.
Xmms-for-XFAudio	xmms-controller for XFAudio enabled keyboards.
String2	A string manipulation library.
Hsv	Convert HSV to RGB.
Active-theming	Varies the color of your window frames according to context.
Uptimes	Track uptimes of your Sawfish sessions.
Wclass	Functions that allow you to test and work with window classes.
Festival	Turns Sawfish into a speaking window manager.
Navigator	Working with Netscape windows.
Shutdown	Closing windows gracefully.
Run-application	Prompt for an application and run it.
Merlin.Ugliness (1.4.0)	Merlin is a Set of scripts for Sawfish, which give you more control about it's look'n'feel and behaviour.
Focus-Shade	Different behaviour for Shaded Windows
Run-application-ng	Prompt for an application and run it.
Prext	Prompt extensions.
Subwm	Selectively delegate window management to a "sub window manager". (another process, emacs :-)
Prompt-menu	Access menus via a prompt with tab completion.
Debug-utils	Utilities for debugging sawfish code.
3d-hack	Simple script implementing two glxgears-like drawing-showcases.
Old-window-menu	Sawfish (very) old window-menu.
Window-info	Shows window's properties, like xwininfo/xprop
Cabinet	A tool for window display,search and manipulation
Hqw-util	A bunch of util functions for sawfish, and cabinet
Messages	A simple API for multiple (i.e. extension-specific), configurable message windows.
Window-mode	This implements a togglable "window mode" with a custom keymap for window-manipulation keys.

Obsolete or non-working scripts

Tiling-functions	Tiling functions for horizontal and vertical tiling.
Center-mouse-on-window-move	Centers mouse on the window moved.
Workspace-persistent-focus	Allows Sawfish to remember a focus per workspace.
Scrolling-viewport-switches	Makes switching between viewports scrolling like Enlightenment does.

Scripts

3d-hack

Simple script implementing two glxgears-like drawing-showcases.

Selection scripts

Services	Send mouse selection to shell program.
Selection-push	Store multiple selections (aka clipboard) for later retrieval.
Keyboard-paste	Paste or clear the primary selection using the keyboard.

Transparency

Focus-transparency	Make windows not in focus translucent.
Native-focus-transparency	Quick hack of Suraj's focus-transparency to remove dependency on transset-df.
Window-alpha	Changes window's opacity depending on focus and adds window's alpha property.

Window placement management scripts

Number-windows	Makes window titles unique by adding a number to them.
Undo	Remembers window activity (moving, resizing, iconifying...) and lets you undo it.
Window-dumping	Allows "dumping" of windows off to regions of the screen with hotkeys, to be restored later in a LIFO method.
Rich-title	Show time, mail arrival, etc. on the title bar.
Corner-placement	Adds a placement mode in which sawfish place the first four windows in the corners.
Send-to-head	Send focused window to next/previous Xinerama head.
Corner	Moves windows to corners of the screen.
Corner-windows	Put windows into the corner of your viewport by a single keypress.
Sticky-head	Defines all windows on a Xinerama head to be sticky.
Iconify-on-open	Matches windows in the iconify-on-open list, and automatically iconifies it.
Window-size-presets	Define window size presets, f.i. for 80x24 terminals.
Repel	Makes windows push each other out of the way.
Keydrag	Drag windows around using only the keyboard.
Win-align	Move/grow/shrink windows to align with other windows
Move-resize-by-key-cursor	If mouse is not used for doing move/resize, the cursor will be placed in a good position for moving/resizing using keyboard.
Tiling placement	Implements tiling-like placements of windows.
Wmaker-placement	WindowMaker-like Cascade placement mode.
Wmaker-dockapps	WindowMaker-like dockapp handling module.
Drag-to-head

Workspace management scripts

Drag-screen-viewport	Allows you to pan the screen around by clicking on the root-window and dragging.
Rewrite-window-titles	Uses regular expression to rewrite the title of some windows.
Iconify-all	Iconify all windows.
Wmaker	Treat WindowMaker dock applications specially.
Wmaker-gnome	Treat WindowMaker dock applications specially (with Gnome support).
Viewport-scrolling	Scroll between viewports taking care of system load.
Sawscreen	Shell script to switch input between screens without needing to use the mouse.
No-mouse	Quickly move, resize, maximize and restore windows with simple keyboard commands.
Shade-stack	An iconify operation that instead of an icon provide a shade stack on top of the workspace.
Randback	Switches the desktop background to a random one after a specified period of time.
Workspace-background	Change the background on entering a different workspace.
Background-hack	Makes it easier to choose your background.
Background-changer	Another background changing application.
Home-ws	Switch to a specified home workspace when the last window in your current workspace is removed.
Ws-send-to	Show workspaces in "Send window to" menu option.
Autohide pager	Automatically hide pager window when not performing desktop-related operations.
Undo-viewport	Remembers switching viewports in single workspace and lets you undo it.
Toggle-ws	switch to your "toggle" workspace, then back

See also

• Snippets - lists code snippets, slacker in the style.
• Tips

External links

• Daniel M German's code repository
• Dave Pearson's page for sawfish
• Mark Triggs' codes
• Ewan Mellor's page