Tips and Tricks

• Enable the ignoreresizehints setting (set ignoreresizehints 1) to force windows to conform to the frame size, eliminating any gap around windows like terminals that supply resize hints to request sizing in a multiple of their font size.

• Enable xterm's allowSendEvents setting to allow sdorfehs to send a fake Control+a key when pressing Control+a, a (which runs its meta command). xterm disables this by default as a security measure to prevent other programs from sending it arbitrary key input.

• Since sdorfehs does not color active and inactive window borders differently by default (though this can be done by setting bwcolor and fwcolor), a compositor like Compton can be used with its inactive-dim setting to dim inactive windows. Its use-ewmh-active-win setting should also be enabled since sdorfehs focuses its own input windows periodically, and it supports EWMH hints to inform Compton which window should actually be considered focused.

• While most default key bindings require the prefix command key (Control+a by default), keys can be bound without them in the top keymap. For example, definekey top F1 vselect 0 will switch to the first virtual screen when F1 is pressed.

  A related tip: if you have bound a key to an action and then need to send that key to a window, you can do it with the meta command accessible via the interactive input menu (Control+a, :meta F1), or with sdorfehs -c "meta F1".