grist
A Windows window manager written in Rust (by ryancerium)
nog
A tiling window manager for Windows (by TimUntersberger)
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grist
Posts with mentions or reviews of grist.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-03.
- Rust for Windows.
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I found interesting to find that Microsoft has Rust as one of the main "Develoipment paths" to development on Windows.
I haven't pushed the official Windows crate version yet, but here's the winapi-rs version: https://github.com/ryancerium/grist
nog
Posts with mentions or reviews of nog.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-26.
- FancyZones fork which maximizes windows properly
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Komorebi: Another tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
Once again I'm happy to answer any questions, and I want to give a special thanks to nog, leftwm and umberwm, whose work this project borrows from and builds upon.
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I found interesting to find that Microsoft has Rust as one of the main "Develoipment paths" to development on Windows.
I wrote my very first window manager for Windows 10 in Rust earlier this here, I built it from the ground up using the new windows-rs crate. It was my first time developing anything for Windows and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the MS documentation ecosystem, and I also had a lot of great example code to learn from thanks to other projects like nog.
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Closest thing to i3 on windows
My pick would be nog, also see this post. Probably worth a try.
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Can I do this?
Instead of explorer.exe, I use Nog which is a tiling window manager for Windows. I have x410 autostart and wsl launch i3.
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[yatta] Windows 10 BSP TWM - looking for contributors
To give credit where it is due, I borrowed and repurposed a fair chunk of code from https://github.com/TimUntersberger/nog, https://github.com/tarkah/grout and https://github.com/yazgoo/umberwm to get up and running.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing grist and nog you can also consider the following projects:
yatta - A tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
window-switcher - Easily switch between windows of the same app with Alt+` (Backtick), also switch between apps with Alt+Tab.
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
wincs - A Rust wrapper for the Windows Cloud Filter API
bug.n - Tiling Window Manager for Windows
windows-rs - Rust for Windows
umberwm - :ram: a minimalistic X window manager based on tinywm, inspired by qtile.
win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm
too-many-lists - Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists