Ion is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.

Ion is an awesome minimalist window manager that let’s you get job done without wearing out your mouse. That is right, you can do everything with your keyboard. Throw that cheap mouse away.

Some quick shortcuts:

F2 - open the default terminal
F3 - run a command
Mod1-s - split a frame in half vertically
Mod1-k s - split a frame in half horizontally
Mod1-n - move vertically between frames
Mod1-tab - move horizontally between frames
Mod1-k x - kill the current frame

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