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This is intended as an overview of what AfterStep has to offer,
the documentation holds information how to achieve these things.

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• AfterStep proper


• Fully controlable behaviour:
• Window Placement & decor ( on a per-window basis )
• fully configurable keyboard and mouse behaviour
• almost full EWMH compliance


• Modules ( can be started multiple times )


• Wharf ( application launcher )
• Can swallow any app or applet (gnome/kde applets not supported)
• Can have any shape and ( multi ) ( column / row ) layout
• WinList ( shows open windows )
• Horizontal or vertical
• Arbitrary number of rows/columns
• Pager ( virtual desktops )
• Desktops and Viewports
• Arbitrary number of rows/columns
• WinTabs ( groups several windows into a tabed one )
• WinCommand ( control of windows )
• understands regular expressions for selecting windows to affect
• Supports the commands: center, center jump, jump, iconify, deiconify, group, kill, move, raize, resize, sendtodesk
• GUI frontend ( GWCommand ) for ease of use
• Helper Tools


• ASWallpaper ( desktop background utility )


• ASFileBrowser ( imagebrowser to view ASXML images among others )


• ASRun ( run dialogue )


• Ident ( displays window properties )


• ASDocGen ( Documentation generation system )
supported documentation formats:
man pages, Docbook XML, html, php