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# komorebi for KDE
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## Overview
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`komorebi` is a tiling window manager for KDE Plasma on Wayland. It decides where each window
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goes, and KWin, the window manager of Plasma, moves and draws the windows.
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`komorebi` is a daemon that runs in the background, and it is controlled with a CLI,
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`komorebic`. Every `komorebic` command that asks something of the daemon is a message on its
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socket, so anything that can run a command can drive `komorebi`: a terminal, a script, or a
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program that binds keys, which is how a key is given an action.
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`komorebi` aims to make _as few modifications as possible_ to the operating system and desktop
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environment by default. Users are free to make such modifications in their own configuration
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files for `komorebi`, but these will always remain opt-in and off-by-default.
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## How it fits together
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_komorebi_ only responds to the events KWin reports about windows and to the messages it
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receives on a dedicated socket. _komorebic_ is a CLI that writes messages on _komorebi_'s
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socket. _komorebi_ doesn't read the keyboard or the mouse: a key runs a _komorebic_ command,
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as a global shortcut of KDE. komorebi makes those shortcuts from a key binding file in the
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format of skhd, whkd or sxhkd ([Key bindings](usage/keybindings.md)); the custom shortcuts of
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Plasma's System Settings work too.
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```text
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PROCESS SOCKET
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key bindings --------> komorebic <------> komorebi
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```
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## Getting started
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[Trying komorebi in a virtual machine](trying-it.md) starts a Plasma guest in which komorebi tiles a
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few windows, with one command, and says what to do when it does not start.
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[Installing komorebi](installation.md) explains how to install the two programs: on NixOS with
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the flake's module, which also starts komorebi with every Plasma session, and from source
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anywhere else. [Running komorebi](usage/running-komorebi.md) explains how to start and stop the
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daemon, ask it what it is doing and read its log.
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[Key bindings](usage/keybindings.md) explains how to bind keys to `komorebic` commands with
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an skhdrc, a whkdrc or an sxhkdrc, and [Example configurations](example-configurations.md) has
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a NixOS configuration and sample key bindings in the three formats.
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[Focusing windows](usage/focusing-windows.md) explains how to give the focus to another window,
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[Moving windows](usage/moving-windows.md) how to move a window to another tile,
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[Stacking windows](usage/stacking-windows.md) how to put windows on one tile, have the others wait
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out of sight and bring one of them to the front,
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[Layouts](usage/layouts.md) how to change the arrangement of the tiles,
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[The scrolling layout](usage/scrolling-layout.md) how its columns work,
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[Resizing windows](usage/resizing-windows.md) how to change the size of one (and
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[Resizing a tile by dragging its edge](drag-resize.md) what a drag with the pointer does),
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[Floating windows](usage/floating-windows.md) how to take a window out of the layout and work with
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the floating ones,
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[Monocle](usage/monocle.md) how to give one window the whole work area,
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[Maximizing windows](usage/maximizing-windows.md) how to have KWin maximize one, and what
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komorebi does when you maximize one yourself,
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[Fullscreen windows](usage/fullscreen-windows.md) what komorebi does with one,
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[Managing windows](usage/managing-windows.md) how to minimize, close and unmanage the focused
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window and pause the daemon, and
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[Padding and work area offsets](usage/padding-and-offsets.md) how to put gaps around the tiles
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and keep parts of a monitor free of them.
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[Rules](usage/rules.md) explains how to keep an application out of the layout, always tile it, or
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float its windows.
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[Initial window placement rules](initial-window-placement-rules.md) explains how to say where in the
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layout a window goes when it opens.
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[Workspaces](usage/workspaces.md) explains how each monitor shows one of its workspaces, which
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are KWin's virtual desktops, and how to show another or move a window to one, and
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[Workspace rules](usage/workspace-rules.md) how to have the windows of an application go to a
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workspace by themselves.
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[Configuration](usage/configuration.md) explains `komorebi.json`, where komorebi looks for it and
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how it is reloaded when it changes, [Example configurations](example-configurations.md) has one to
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start from, and [Application specific configuration](usage/application-specific-configuration.md)
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explains the files of rules for particular applications it can name.
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[Quickstart and autostart](usage/quickstart-and-autostart.md) explains how to write an example
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configuration, how to start komorebi with Plasma without the module, and how to replace the
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configuration of a running daemon.
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[Borders](usage/borders.md) explains how komorebi has KWin draw a border around each window,
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[Animation](usage/animation.md) how it has KWin animate the windows going to their places, and
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[Transparency](usage/transparency.md) how it makes the windows that do not have the focus
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see-through, [Focus follows mouse](usage/focus-follows-mouse.md) how it has KWin give the focus
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to the window under the pointer, [Themes](usage/themes.md) how a theme gives the borders their
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colors, and [Wallpapers](usage/wallpapers.md) how a monitor or a workspace shows a picture of its own,
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and what it does to the borders.
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[Changing monitors](usage/changing-monitors.md) explains what komorebi does when a monitor
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changes size, is unplugged or is plugged in, and
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[Sleeping and locking](usage/sleeping-and-locking.md) what it does when the machine wakes up and
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the screen is unlocked.
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[Checking the setup](usage/checking-the-setup.md) explains how `komorebic check` finds the
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mistakes in a configuration and a key binding file, and what is missing from the desktop, before
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the daemon does.
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[Subscribing to notifications](usage/subscribing-to-notifications.md) explains how a program
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such as a status bar follows what komorebi does. The [CLI reference](cli/start.md) has a page
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for every `komorebic` command, generated from its help.
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[Compared with komorebi for Windows and for Mac](dev/COMPARE.md) says, for someone who knows
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komorebi on one of them, what is the same on KDE Plasma, what is different, what KDE does by
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itself and what is not supported.
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## Community
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There is a [Discord server](https://discord.gg/mGkn66PHkx) available for
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`komorebi`-related discussion, help, troubleshooting etc.
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There is a [YouTube
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channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeai3-do-9O4MNy9_xjO6mg) where I post
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`komorebi` development videos, feature previews and release overviews. Subscribing
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to the channel (which is monetized as part of the YouTube Partner Program) and
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watching videos is a really simple and passive way to contribute financially to
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the development and maintenance of `komorebi`.
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There is an [Awesome List](https://github.com/LGUG2Z/awesome-komorebi) which
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showcases the many awesome projects that exist in the `komorebi` ecosystem.
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## Licensing for Personal Use
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`komorebi` is licensed under the [Komorebi 2.0.0 license](https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license), which is a fork
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of the [PolyForm Strict 1.0.0 license](https://polyformproject.org/licenses/strict/1.0.0). On a high level this means
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that you are free to do whatever you want with `komorebi` for personal use other than redistribution, or distribution of
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new works (i.e. hard-forks) based on the software.
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Anyone is free to make their own fork of `komorebi` with changes intended either for personal use or for integration
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back upstream via pull requests.
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The [Komorebi 2.0.0 License](https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license) does not permit any kind of commercial use (
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i.e. using `komorebi` at work).
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## Sponsorship for Personal Use
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`komorebi` is a free and educational source project, and one that encourages you
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to make charitable donations if you find the software to be useful and have the
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financial means.
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I encourage you to make a charitable donation to the [Palestine Children's
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Relief Fund](https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery) or to contribute
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to a [Gaza Funds campaign](https://gazafunds.com) before you consider sponsoring
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me on GitHub.
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[GitHub Sponsors is enabled for this
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project](https://github.com/sponsors/LGUG2Z). Sponsors can claim custom roles on
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the Discord server, get shout-outs at the end of _komorebi_-related videos on
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YouTube, and gain the ability to submit feature requests on the issue tracker.
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If you would like to tip or sponsor the project but are unable to use GitHub
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Sponsors, you may also sponsor through [Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/lgug2z), or
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make an anonymous Bitcoin donation to `bc1qv73wzspc77k46uty4vp85x8sdp24mphvm58f6q`.
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## Licensing for Commercial Use
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A dedicated Individual Commercial Use License is available for those who want to
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use `komorebi` at work.
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The Individual Commercial Use License adds “Commercial Use” as a “Permitted Use”
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for the licensed individual only, for the duration of a valid paid license
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subscription only. All provisions and restrictions enumerated in the [Komorebi
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License](https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license) continue to apply.
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More information, pricing and purchase links for Individual Commercial Use
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Licenses [can be found here](https://lgug2z.com/software/komorebi).
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