leftwm
A tiling window manager for Adventurers (by leftwm)
my-penrose-config
My personal penrose config (by sminez)
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| leftwm | my-penrose-config | |
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| 22 | 1 | |
| 2,722 | 25 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 8.4 | 5.6 | |
| 9 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | - |
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leftwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of leftwm.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
- Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
- if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
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Where should I adventure myself
(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))
- LeftWM – A tiling window manager for Adventurers
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Preferred DE/WM?
LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.
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Picom backend optimization
I'm using a tiling window manager (LeftWM) and picom with experimental backends for compositing. I'm running into issues configuring picom for use on my laptop when I am on battery power. Two problems arise:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
I've looked at these: - DWM: A popular, compact WM written in C - LeftWM: A popular, configurable WM written in Rust - GabelstaplerWM: An obscure, compact WM written in Rust - XCB DWM: An abandoned rewrite of DWM using XCB
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Arch + Tiling Window Manager
Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm
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Different window managers (e.g. tiling) on Windows?
In particular, I think that "ultrawide-vertical-stack" (based on "CenterMain" from LeftWM) is quite close to what you are looking for. Give it a try with komorebic change-layout ultrawide-vertical-stack!
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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.
my-penrose-config
Posts with mentions or reviews of my-penrose-config.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-17.
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Penrose 0.2.0 - a tiling window manager library
For general use (including the built in status bar) my personal config might be of interest: https://github.com/sminez/my-penrose-config
What are some alternatives?
When comparing leftwm and my-penrose-config you can also consider the following projects:
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
breadx - An implementation of the X Window System Protocol in Rust
wayland-rs - Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm
yatta - A tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
nushell - A new type of shell
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
umberwm - :ram: a minimalistic X window manager based on tinywm, inspired by qtile.