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sowm
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XFCE live usb(i686) is using almost 200mb of memory on boot?
To add to the comment above, if memory is all you care about, I managed to get it down to 75MB once with custom kernel and sowm.
- any patch that entirely removes the bar?
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How does dwm spawn() work exactly?
You can check https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm It will be handy to you to understand how Dwm works
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
Or sowm.
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Think this beast can run Linux?
I managed to get 75mb with X session on Void. (sowm + minimal kernel)
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Suckless desktop starter pack, how to start?
Then perhaps you should have a look at sowm. It is a fork (if you can still call it that) of dwm that has no tiling support and no bar.
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what linux distro is recommended for my slow pc?
If you are r/linux4noobs then you probably won't be able to get it running but... I managed to get voidlinux with sowm and a custom kernel to 70MB memory usage.
- Asking for a really lightweight distro for me to learn linux with.
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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
- Is Debian 11 XFCE a good choice for an old laptop?
dotfiles
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Weird focus after exit from fullscreen
Resources: dotfiles, copied from dotfiles.
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Can't install the `elenapan/dotfiles`
I think the dude ' s dots you want to use is using the git master version and you are using the stable version ? Maybe. The stable version is too old. And the Git master version some new Api's. up to date. So try using the git master version.
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Customize min, max and close buttons
Found it here https://github.com/elenapan/dotfiles/tree/master/config/awesome/themes/amarena/titlebar
- looking for the best awesomewm config
- Update widget whenever i get the new output from pactl subscribe command
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Which one of these window managers is the most customizable/has the most features?
Otherwise you can just use the prethemed ones for instance this and this
- How to get rid of angular rounded corners?
- Where to start learning configuring awesome?
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Hide popup on "click away"
checkout elenapan's implementation
- Any good config/themes for the wibar and the manager itself other than the awesome-copycat git repo?
What are some alternatives?
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
qtile-polybar
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
nix-gui - Use NixOS Without Coding
cwm - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
neoterm - Wrapper of some vim/neovim's :terminal functions.
i3blocks - The hacker-friendly status_command for Sway and i3
awesome-wm-widgets - Widgets for Awesome Window Manager
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
awesome-wm-nice - An Awesome WM module that add MacOS-like window decorations, with seamless titlebars, double click to maximize, and window shade feature
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
nixos - NixOS Configuration