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Spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out
of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more
important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a
language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it
strives to be small, compact and fast.

NOTES:
The installer includes several example files, including:
* baraction.sh (scripts for the status bar in Linux)
* spectrwm.conf (a default configuration file)
* spectrwm_$LANGUAGE.conf (language-specfic keyboard layouts)

All these files can be found in /usr/doc/spectrwm-$VERSION/examples

The installer places a default spectrwm.conf in /etc but spectrwm will also look
for .spectrwm.conf and .spectrwm_us.conf in $HOME/user/

baraction.sh can go in an executable path which should be named in .spectrwm.conf

Finally, dmenu is a soft dependency, and spectrwm will give a warning if it's
missing. However it's not essential and some users may prefer other app launchers.