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sowm | waymonad | |
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20 | 21 | |
890 | 828 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
7 months ago | almost 5 years ago | |
C | Haskell | |
MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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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/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?
waymonad
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X11 is dead, switch to Wayland
I am personally waiting for Waymonad. https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
It takes time, but the teams behind wlroots etc are doing good work to make sure that wms managed by smaller teams can exist. There are even clones for your specific wm on wayland. See https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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switching from awesomewm to a wayland compositor
In addition, there was the last commit in 2019. Thus, it can be assumed that the project is dead and therefore nothing will change on the current state. And according to https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44, there are probably not enough people who would actively participate in a fork.
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I was in a stream and I realized what is still lacking from Linux Gaming to be mainstream
Ideally xmonad would be ported/xmonad devs would be working on waymonad, but I doubt it will happen. Waymonad seems to be abandoned.
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Cool Desktops Don’t Change
Nice to see Qtile on Wayland. But I'm personally waiting for xmonad on Wayland.
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A tiling desktop environment is now available for Bullseye
I wouldn't count on it, as Waymonad has not seen active development since 2019 and the Haskell bindings to wlroots have not been updated since 2019 as well. There is a fork, but it has not been active since September 2021. Also, it was based on wlroots, not sway.
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.
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I would not give up haskell for hiring purposes. I think it will exponentialy rise through the roof in a year or two [2012]
Unfortunately it was abandoned https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44
- Is there a successful Wayand wm that is close to xmonad?
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Little advice, please.
regarding keeping an interest, waymonad has been dead for something like two and a half years but according to startrack it's still getting people giving him stars so i don't think you should worry about it.
What are some alternatives?
2bwm - A fast floating WM written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
tinywm - The tiniest window manager.
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
cwm - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
i3blocks - The hacker-friendly status_command for Sway and i3
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation