pgwm
A minimal tiling x11 window manager (by MarcusGrass)
x11rb
X11 bindings for the rust programming language, similar to xcb being the X11 C bindings (by psychon)
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4.9 | 8.7 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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pgwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of pgwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
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I reinvented another wheel, linux threads.
Ps. I don't at all endorse using tiny-std, I think it's correct but I wouldn't be surprised if some nasty bugs are hiding somewhere in there. Although I do use it for my WM pgwm which can now be build on stable, assuming you're running Linux with io-uring, a wrote a bit about that change here but didn't post about it then. The main benefit of tiny-std being tiny binaries that link statically.
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Pgwm 0.3 a pure rust `no_std` no libc window manager.
If you want to check out the WM, that can be found here. If you want to check out tiny-std, that's here. As previously mentioned, there's a write-up on all of that here.
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I wrote an x11 tiling window manager inspired by DWM that I've been using for a few months now. If you're using x11 and want to try out a new tiling window manager I'd love your feedback!
So if firefox is an application you can find you can query the WM_CLASS property, like this. Other applications might not set that and you'd have to use some other property or information to deduce that this given window(which is just a u32) is actually applicationA. A tip is to start the application, use xprop and see what properties it sets. call_wrapper.rs contains a lot of code about querying different properties. The x11rb example simple_window.rs has a few examples of the other side of that showing how an application can set its on properties.
x11rb
Posts with mentions or reviews of x11rb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.
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My (challenging) experience building a window switcher for Ubuntu
xdotool worked ... but I didn't want to depend on external command-line tools, so I decided to look for X11 bindings for Rust. The best library I could find was x11rb. It had very little documentation and almost no one used it (it was difficult to find people who could help me with it). Fortunately, it had a detailed tutorial. Still, it was a struggle to make things works sometimes.
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x11rb: Listening to key presses from anywhere on the screen
I'm using x11rb, X11 Rust Bindings. I modified some code from this tutorial so that I'm listening to key presses from parent_win (screen.root) rather than win:
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Handling two types of errors in the same function
In the end, I decided to use x11rb: https://github.com/psychon/x11rb. This way I don't have to run external commands.
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Moving a window with Rust X11 bindings
I'm trying to move a window (the GNOME terminal) with x11rb. I followed this tutorial. But the move_window function doesn't move the window.
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x11rs can't access window created with gtk-rs
I'm using x11rb to interact with a window created with gtk-rs. window_id is the ID of the window created with gtk-rs. window_id_2 is the ID of the window created with x11rb (for testing purposes).
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Focusing/switching X11 windows with a Rust crate
I also checked x11rb, but I think it's too low level (and too complicated).
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X11 programming: x11rb or rust-xcb ? What's the difference ?
There is a comparison page in x11rb but it seems to be outdated w.r.t rust-xcb and the unsafe claims, so would appreciate other perspectives.
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We never know who is delusional..
Do you have a source for that or any specifics on how it "can't handle" the usecases? There's already work in Rust around fully supporting X11 (for example https://github.com/bread-graphics/breadx or https://github.com/psychon/x11rb)
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Pgwm 0.3 a pure rust `no_std` no libc window manager.
I was thinking about specializing x11rb which is a great library for interfacing with X11, to my specific single threaded use case.
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I wrote an x11 tiling window manager inspired by DWM that I've been using for a few months now. If you're using x11 and want to try out a new tiling window manager I'd love your feedback!
So if firefox is an application you can find you can query the WM_CLASS property, like this. Other applications might not set that and you'd have to use some other property or information to deduce that this given window(which is just a u32) is actually applicationA. A tip is to start the application, use xprop and see what properties it sets. call_wrapper.rs contains a lot of code about querying different properties. The x11rb example simple_window.rs has a few examples of the other side of that showing how an application can set its on properties.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pgwm and x11rb you can also consider the following projects:
penrose - A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager
unsafe-code-guidelines - Forum for discussion about what unsafe code can and can't do