## Preface / Disclaimer

Judging by the file’s timestamp I first took these notes on 2010-05-09.  I have been using FVWM as my window manager back then and tried to figure out which actions should have which effect – or the other way round maybe: which effects do I need and which action should cause them, I can’t remember.

In any case, this is what I seem to have come up with and just because I still find it amazing how many different actions are configurable in FVWM where almost all other WMs I am aware of do not allow this fine-grained level of control, I thought I’d polish this list just a tiny bit and publish it.  Maybe it helps someone, maybe I want to refer someone to it some day.

Also: this is not complete!  These were just my initial thoughts when (re)designing the controls but they have not been updated with additional things I figured out during actual use of the WM.  I’m also not using FVWM or any [stacking WM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacking_window_manager) but the [tiling WM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager) [AwesomeWM](https://awesomewm.org/) so all this information has become obsolete for me.


## Mouse Controls

| action      | location          | effect                                              |
| ----------- | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| click       | background        | menu mainmenu                                       |
| click       | title             | raise                                               |
| click       | corner/border     | raise                                               |
| click       | window content    | raise                                               |
| click+move  | in window content | not raise                                           |
| hold/move   | title             | move                                                |
| hold/move   | corner/border     | resize                                              |
| scroll      | title             | shade                                               |
| scroll      | corner/border     | resize in steps (Shift/Meta/Control increase steps) |
| doubleclick | title             | maximize                                            |
| doubleclick | corner/border     | maximize in direction                               |
| middleclick | title             | grow (resize to fit free space)                     |
| middleclick | corner/border     | grow in direction                                   |
| rightclick  | title             | menu windowsops                                     |
| rightclick  | corner/border     | menu windowsops                                     |
| leftclick   | windowbutton1     | close                                               |
| rightclick  | windowbutton1     | menu windowops                                      |
| scroll      | windowbutton1     | change layer                                        |

Legend:

* windows have the following components: title frame border
* title bar geometry: windowbuttons title windowbuttons
* windowbuttons are numbered
  * left side: 1 3 5 7 9
  * right side: 0 8 6 4 2


## Keyboard Controls

| Modifier   | Key    | Effect                      |
| ---------- | ------ | --------------------------- |
| S          | ESC    | menu windowsops             |
| M          | Space  | menu windowsops             |
| MC         | M      | menu mainmenu               |
| MC         | h or ← | go one page/workspace left  |
| MC         | j or ↓ | go one page/workspace down  |
| MC         | k or ↑ | go one page/workspace up    |
| MC         | l or → | go one page/workspace right |

Legend:

* S = Shift
* M = Meta / Alt
* C = Control


## Keyboard & Mouse

| Modifier   | Action      | Effect         |
| ---------- | ----------- | -------------- |
| MC         | leftclick   | move           |
| MC         | rightclick  | menu windowops |
| MC         | middleclick | menu mainmenu  |


## References

<http://web.archive.org/web/20180614115814/http://www.s-and-b.ru/syshlp/motif_guide/MotifStyleGuide/Window_Decorations.html> for windowops menues and shortcuts