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A

Animate-move	Smoothly slide windows across the screen.
Active-theming	Varies the color of your window frames according to context.
Autohide pager	Automatically hide pager window when not performing desktop-related operations.
Alternative Animators (adopted)	3 Additional Animation/Outline Modes: draft, cross and elliptical
App	Yet another focus-or-run script; this one uses cycle-commands.

B

Better-quote-event	This is an improved version of quote-event that also works with pointer button events.
Background-hack	Makes it easier to choose your background.
Background-changer	Another background changing application.
Background (adopted)	Another background selector.

C

Customize-messages	Dialog to customize the look of most messages.
Center-mouse-on-window-move	Centers mouse on the window moved.
Corner-placement	Adds a placement mode in which sawfish place the first four windows in the corners.
Corner	Moves windows to corners of the screen.
Corner-windows	Put windows into the corner of your viewport by a single keypress.
Cabinet	A tool for window display,search and manipulation

D

Drag-screen-viewport	Allows you to pan the screen around by clicking on the root-window and dragging.
Dynamic-menu	Reads a flat text file and converts it into a menu variable.
Debug-utils	Utilities for debugging sawfish code.
Drag-to-head

E

Emacs

Provides greater integration with emacs.

F

Focus-by-direction	Move focus to a windows east/west/north/south of the current one.
Focus-transparency	Make windows not in focus translucent.
Festival	Turns Sawfish into a speaking window manager.
Focus-Shade	Different behaviour for Shaded Windows

G

Gimme

Lets you configure bindings to bring focus to specific windows or start a program if it doesn't exist.

H

Hsv	Convert HSV to RGB.
Home-ws	Switch to a specified home workspace when the last window in your current workspace is removed.
Hqw-util	A bunch of util functions for sawfish, and cabinet

I

Infinite-desktop (adopted)	Makes the size of a workspace infinite.
Iswitch-window	Iswitch is a window switcher with an incremental search.
Iconify-all	Iconify all windows.
Iconify-on-open	Matches windows in the iconify-on-open list, and automatically iconifies it.

J

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.
Jumper	Allow to tag windows explicitly with an ID and allow to jump to such marked windows directly.

K

Keydrag	Drag windows around using only the keyboard.
Keyboard-paste	Paste or clear the primary selection using the keyboard.

M

Macros	Emacs-style keyboard macros for sawfish.
Maximize-windows-fullscreen (adopted)	Three maximization functions: vertical, horizontal, both.
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.
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.
Mousetrap (adopted)	Move the mouse to any place of the screen with a few keystrokes by zooming (as much precision as you want).
Messages	A simple API for multiple (i.e. extension-specific), configurable message windows.

N

Number-windows	Makes window titles unique by adding a number to them.
No-mouse	Quickly move, resize, maximize and restore windows with simple keyboard commands.
Navigator	Working with Netscape windows.
Native-focus-transparency	Quick hack of Suraj's focus-transparency to remove dependency on transset-df.

O

Old-window-menu

Sawfish (very) old window-menu.

P

Panel-integration	Two helper function to pop up the Gnome run and panel main dialog.
Program-functions	Six Macros and a couple of functions to start some common programs.
Prompt (adopted)	-	Prext	Prompt extensions.
Prompt-menu	Access menus via a prompt with tab completion.

R

Rewrite-window-titles	Uses regular expression to rewrite the title of some windows.
Rich-title	Show time, mail arrival, etc. on the title bar.
Randback	Switches the desktop background to a random one after a specified period of time.
Repel	Makes windows push each other out of the way.
Run-application	Prompt for an application and run it.
Restore-focus	Restore focus to last "interesting" window when switching to an workspace.
Run-application-ng	Prompt for an application and run it.

S

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.
Scrolling-viewport-switches	Makes switching between viewports scrolling like Enlightenment does.
Services	Send mouse selection to shell program.
Selection-push	Store multiple selections (aka clipboard) for later retrieval.
Send-to-head	Send focused window to next/previous Xinerama head.
Sawscreen	Shell script to switch input between screens without needing to use the mouse.
Sticky-head	Defines all windows on a Xinerama head to be sticky.
Shade-stack	An iconify operation that instead of an icon provide a shade stack on top of the workspace.
String2	A string manipulation library.
Shutdown	Closing windows gracefully.
Scripts (by category)	-	SawTabs (1.0.1) (adopted)	Fluxbox Like Tabs for Sawfish.
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.
Subwm	Selectively delegate window management to a "sub window manager". (another process, emacs :-)

T

Tiling-functions	Tiling functions for horizontal and vertical tiling.
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.
Tiling placement	Implements tiling-like placements of windows.
Toggle-ws	switch to your "toggle" workspace, then back

U

Undo	Remembers window activity (moving, resizing, iconifying...) and lets you undo it.
Uptimes	Track uptimes of your Sawfish sessions.
Undo-viewport	Remembers switching viewports in single workspace and lets you undo it.

V

Viewport-scrolling	Scroll between viewports taking care of system load.
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.

W

Waffle	Combination of Iswitch-window with Jump-or-exec.
Window-dumping	Allows "dumping" of windows off to regions of the screen with hotkeys, to be restored later in a LIFO method.
Workspace-persistent-focus	Allows Sawfish to remember a focus per workspace.
Wid	Assign to windows short ids and provide shortcuts to switch to them by one key-stroke.
Wmaker	Treat WindowMaker dock applications specially.
Wmaker-gnome	Treat WindowMaker dock applications specially (with Gnome support).
Web-development	Useful for web developers.
Window-size-presets	Define window size presets, f.i. for 80x24 terminals.
Workspace-background	Change the background on entering a different workspace.
Window-focus-binding	Adds a window binding option to focus a window.
Wclass	Functions that allow you to test and work with window classes.
Ws-send-to	Show workspaces in "Send window to" menu option.
Win-align	Move/grow/shrink windows to align with other windows
Window-alpha	Changes window's opacity depending on focus and adds window's alpha property.
Wmaker-placement	WindowMaker-like Cascade placement mode.
Wmaker-dockapps	WindowMaker-like dockapp handling module.
Window-info	Shows window's properties, like xwininfo/xprop
Window-mode	This implements a togglable "window mode" with a custom keymap for window-manipulation keys.

X

Xmms-for-XFAudio

xmms-controller for XFAudio enabled keyboards.