IonWm

page was renamed from Ion

[http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/ Ion] is a keyboard-oriented window manager for X-windows. It was written by Tuomo Valkonen, creator of [http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ PWM], the first window manager to use tabs. Since PWM, many window managers have adopted tabs, most notably Fluxbox and Ion.

I use Ion on every machine at home. In addition, I compiled it for solaris on the UBC undergraduate servers. It's definetely my preferred window manager. Ion can easily be extended using the powerful scripting language, [http://lua.org Lua]. All of it's config files are written in lua.

= Key Bindings =

I have configured Ion to use vim-like key-bindings. Since most computer keyboards these days have Super (windows) keys, I use this modifier as the DEFAULT_MOD (to avoid conflict with applications that use the meta (alt) key).

The compass rose as per VI is:

    k
    ^
    |
h<-   ->l
    |
    v
    j

I was going to split the keybindings into 3 submaps: one for workspaces, one for frames and one for windows. This would have been too confusing. So I decided to use

hjkl

ui

yo

Obligatory screenshot:

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