howm
berry
howm | berry | |
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1 | 4 | |
645 | 998 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
almost 2 years ago | 4 months ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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howm
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Note taking in Emacs with howm
I thought this was going to be about the window manager
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
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What are some alternatives?
core - Liman allows you to centrally manage all servers, clients and network devices in your organization remotely, with stable and secure way. You can improve the features with expandable extensions.
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
FrankenWM - 🖼️ Fast dynamic tiling X11 window manager
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
dwm - Personal built of Dynamic Window Manager from suckless.org
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)