Notion
Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for X.
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Installation
Starting Notion
With a login manager
To start/select Notion from most login managers, a standard .desktop file can be created in the /usr/share/xsessions/ directory. An example notion.desktop file can be found below:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Notion Comment=This session logs you into Notion Exec=/usr/bin/notion TryExec=/usr/bin/notion Icon= Type=XSession
See the display manager article for more details.
With xinitrc
You can start Notion from the command line by adding exec notion
to ~/.xinitrc or any other startup script you may want to use. An example .xinitrc file can be found below.
DEFAULT_SESSION=notion case $1 in awesome) exec awesome ;; notion) exec notion ;; openbox) exec openbox-session ;; *) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;; esac
Using Notion
You can view Notion's man page at any time during use by pressing the F1 key and pressing the return key This will tell you the default key bindings for Notion. You can also access the man page for other programs this way by pressing F1, typing in the program's name and pressing return.
Lua 5.2
gfind
You should replace 'gfind' to 'gmatch' because of 'gfind' was removed
goto
'goto' is a keyword now. You can use following workaround:
replace
win:goto()
to
function win_goto(w) return w['goto'](w) end ... win_goto(win)
See also
- http://notion.sourceforge.net/ - Notion website
- http://notion.sourceforge.net/notionconf/ - Configuring and Extending Notion using LUA
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/notion/ - Notion Wiki