penrose VS leftwm

writing an X11 window manager is ... extremely tedious. have a look at https://github.com/sminez/penrose .

Hey everyone 👋 ! I'm currently working on a rust library for building and configuring your own shell! It's inspired by projects like xmonad and penrose where the configuration of the program is done in code. This means that for example, instead of using Bash's arcane syntax for configuring the prompt, it can be configured instead using a rust builder pattern! The project itself is still at a very young stage, so there are plenty of bugs and unimplemented features. However, some things that are (partially) implemented are:

https://github.com/sminez/penrose https://sminez.github.io/penrose/

im not sure weather or not i should mention penrose an dwm here :D you can configure even more than with kde (and my setup ended up way beyond anything recognisable)

There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.

Mostly non-dynamic except for wm-specific actions. What kind of events are we talking about? I think that if we're talking about something that on a more low-level exposes x11 events penrose is a better bet. That being said, exposing something like:

You might find Penrose interesting. Basically a rust library that you can use to write your own X11 window manager without needing to deal with a lot of the lower level details of X11.

https://github.com/sminez/penrose which I'm really enjoying so far.

(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))

LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.

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:

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

Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm

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!

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.