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# Notion

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Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for X.

## Installation

Install notion.

## 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 during use with 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()

with

     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

Category:

- Tiling WMs