berry
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berry
- Berry Wm
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Berry is a healthy, byte-sized window manager written in C for Unix systems
I downloaded the latest release as a zip file here - https://github.com/JLErvin/berry/releases
FWIW, it’s 34KB and while it’s only the source, that seems pretty small. I haven’t gone through the build process to figure out the executable though.
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How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One
This is a great article and I remember reading it numerous times while I was implementing my own window manager.
For someone interested in working on a really fun and rewarding hobby project a WM is a great one to look into since there are so many resources starting from really small implementations:
- https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm
- https://github.com/venam/2bwm
- https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm
- https://github.com/dcat/swm
- https://github.com/JLErvin/berry
Which are great at introducing the concepts and allowing you to grok the required libraries.
There are also a bunch of more full featured window managers which will introduce you to more advanced topics:
- https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
- https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm
- https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
- https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
Gradually as you get more familiar with the ecosystem a few questions will come up:
Should I use X11 or XCB? - I personally used XCB and didn't find it too difficult to interface with, and there are a large number of implementations which use it (2bwm, bspwm, ratpoison, etc) so you shouldn't have an issue with learning more about it. But the documentation is pretty limited. If you are just wanting to write a toy WM than X11 is perfectly fine.
X or Wayland? - If you're wanting to write your first WM as a hobby project than I would recommend X over wayland just due to the much larger amount of reference material and documentation. You will have a much easier time getting your feet wet. Ignore the comments about X dying as it doesn't really matter for a hobby project, since the whole point is to have fun.
Feel free to check out my window manager which is an example of what just reading this blog post and getting inspired can result in: https://github.com/cfrank/natwm
- Skipping class
dwm
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Easy build for suckless utilities
Same text in proper README here.
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statuscmd patch always running last command
Thanks a lot u/bakkeby for the comment. It solved my issue. I think you should add this change in the systray patch as I think this could be a missed bug there.
What are some alternatives?
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc / 24kb compiled!).
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
modwm - MODWM - Modular Dynamic Window Manager
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
unix - Mirror of the Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources from pdf document.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
jgmenu - An X11 menu
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
xwm - A tiny XCB floating window manager.
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
devoidwm - A simple X11 window manager