RIVERCTL(1) "github.com/ifreund/river" "General Commands Manual"
# NAME

riverctl - command-line interface for controlling river

# SYNOPSIS

*riverctl*
*close*|*declare-mode*|*enter-mode*|*exit*|*focus-output*|*focus-view*|*layout*|*map*|*mod-master-count*|*mod-master-factor*|*send-to-output*|*set-focused-tags*|*set-option*|*set-view-tags*|*spawn*|*toggle-float*|*toggle-focused-tags*|*toggle-view-tags*|*zoom* [_command specific arguments_]

# DESCRIPTION

*riverctl* is a command-line interface inspired by bspc from bspwm
used to control and configure river.

# COMMANDS

## ACTIONS

*close*
	Close the focused view.

*exit*
	Exit the compositor, terminating the Wayland session.

*focus-output* *next*|*previous*
	Focus next or previous output.

*focus-view* *next*|*previous*
	Focus next or previous view in the stack.

*layout* *full*|_command_
	Provide a command which river will use for generating the layout of
	non-floating windows on the currently focused output. See
	*river-layouts*(7) for details on the expected formatting of the output
	of layout commands. Alternatively, “full” can be given instead of a
	command to cause river to use its single internal layout, in which
	windows span the entire width and height of the output.

*mod-master-count* _integer_
	Increase or decrease the number of master views. _integer_ can be
	positive or negative.

*mod-master-factor* _float_
	Make the master area bigger or smaller. _float_ is a positive or
	negative floating point number (such as 0.05) where 1 corresponds to
	the whole screen.

*send-to-output* *next*|*previous*
	Send the focused view to the next or the previous output.

*spawn* _shell_command_
	Run _shell_command_ using _/bin/sh -c_. Put single quotes around
	_shell_command_ if you do not want special characters to get
	interpreted by your shell before the command gets passed to _/bin/sh_.

*toggle-float*
	If the focused view is floating, make it tiled. If it is tiled, make
	it floating.

*toggle-fullscreen*
	Toggle the fullscreen state of the focused view.

*zoom*
	Bump the focused view to the top of the layout stack to make it the
	new master.

## ACTIONS ON TAGS

Tags are like workspaces but more flexible: You can assign views to
multiple tags and look at multiple tags at once. A _tagmask_ is used
to represent which tags are visible. The following commands take a
_tagmask_ in base 10 as argument but _tagmasks_ are best understood in
binary: 000000001 means that the first tag is visible; 111111111 means
that tag 1 through 9 are visible.

*set-focused-tags* _tagmask_
	Show the tags specified with _tagmask_.

*set-view-tags* _tagmask_
	Assign focused view to tags specified with _tagmask_.

*toggle-focused-tags* _tagmask_
	Toggle visibility of tags specified with _tagmask_.

*toggle-view-tags* _tagmask_
	Toggle tags of focused view as specified with _tagmask_.

## CONFIGURATION COMMANDS

*declare-mode* _name_
	Create a new mode called _name_ for use in mappings.

*enter-mode* _name_
	Switch to given mode if it exits.

*map* _mode_ _modifiers_ _key_ _command_
	_mode_ is either “normal” (the default mode) or a mode created with
	*declare-mode*. _modifiers_ is a list of one or more of the following
	modifiers separated with a plus sign:

	- Shift
	- Lock (Caps lock)
	- Control (Ctrl)
	- Mod1 (Alt)
	- Mod2
	- Mod3
	- Mod4 (Super, Logo, Windows)
	- Mod5

	_key_ is an XKB key name. See _/usr/include/xkbcommon/xkbcommon-keysyms.h_
	for a list of special key names. _command_ can be any of the above commands.

	A mapping without modifiers can be created by passing an empty string as
	the modifiers argument.

*set-option* _option_ _value_
	Set _option_ to a specified _value_. List of valid options:

	- *background_color* _RGB/RGBA_hex_code_
	- *border_width* _non-negative_integer_
	- *border_color_focused* _RGB/RGBA_hex_code_
	- *border_color_unfocused* _RGB/RGBA_hex_code_
	- *outer_padding* _non-negative_integer_
	- *view_padding* _non-negative_integer_

# EXAMPLES

Bind bemenu-run to Super+P:

	riverctl map normal Mod4 P spawn bemenu-run

See _contrib/config.sh_ for some basic keybindings.

# SEE ALSO

*river*(1), *river-layouts*(7), *rivertile*(1)