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8 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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?
progman
- Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows
- Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
- Progman is a simple X11 window manager modeled after Program Manager from Win3
- Progman
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«Наш Линукс»: Astra Linux (Россия) vs. Red Star OS (Северная Корея) [2 слайда]
Так пусть веет же сильнее!
- Windows 3.x's Program Manager as an X11 window manager
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Suckless desktop starter pack, how to start?
Maybe look at a different window manager like progman https://github.com/jcs/progman
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Starfish Window Manager (sdorfehs)
also by the same guy: progman
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Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
https://github.com/jcs/progman
What are some alternatives?
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
sdorfehs - A tiling window manager
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
themix-gui - Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes. Have a hack for HiDPI in gtk2. Its Base16 plugin also allowing a lot of app themes support like Alacritty, Emacs, GTK4, KDE, VIM and many more.
cwm - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
i3blocks - The hacker-friendly status_command for Sway and i3
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad
91menu - A Plan9-inspired, mouse-oriented, graphical menu, which works with the standard input.