STUMPWM(1)

📦 version 24.11, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 STUMPWM — the Common Lisp window manager bestie 💅

ok so you found the STUMPWM(1) page, General Commands Manual energy, and honestly? you're about to have a great time. sit down, hydrate, let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

stumpwm — it's a Common Lisp window manager. that's it. that's the whole vibe. a window manager written in Lisp, no cap 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

stumpwm

literally just run it. no flags, no drama, no twelve subcommands you have to memorise. iconic behavior honestly 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager, and the way that it's written entirely in Common Lisp?? obsessed. like, all of it. every last bit. Lisp girlies stay winning 🌈

StumpWM is trying to be customizable while staying visually minimal — and she ate, fr fr. That means:

  • no window decorations — none. zero. nada 💀
  • no icons — nope 🙈
  • no buttons — bestie there are no buttons to click, it's keyboard hours only ⌨️

but here's the part where it gets good: it does have various hooks so you can attach your own personal customizations, plus variables to tweak. so it's minimal out of the box and then you make it yours. main character energy, truly 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ~/.stumpwmrc — your config file, your little home for your customizations 🏠✨

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

  • LISP — tells StumpWM which Common Lisp implementation it should be using. default is CLISP, and the other values are SBCL and CMUCL — and yes, all lowercase, don't come in here with your capital letters, she's picky 😭

You can also configure this in ~/.stumpwmrc like so:

;debian=lisp

pick your fighter, bestie 🥊

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

also!! the complete StumpWM documentation is available under the info subsystem, and there's the SLIME documentation too. go read, you'll be glad you did 📚💖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

StumpWM was principally written by Shawn Betts <sabetts@vcn.bc.ca>, and it is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. slay, legally speaking ⚖️✨

This manual page was written by Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> for the Debian StumpWM package, and it is also licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later. wanna check the receipts? look at /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/copyright for more information 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you made it!! go forth and tile some windows 💅

and a lil sign-off for the girlies who read all the way down here: this page comes from the Debian StumpWM package, dated Jul 23, 2008 — yes bestie, 2008, she's vintage and she still ate 🎀💖 bye!!

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