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 ## Design goals
 
 - Simplicity and minimalism, river should not overstep the bounds of a
-window manger.
+window manager.
 - Window management based on a stack of views and tags.
 - Dynamic layouts generated by external, user-written executables. (A default
 `rivertile` layout generator is provided.)