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tinywm
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Fedora Workstation 41 to No Longer Install Gnome X.org Session by Default
> Nobody's requiring Wayland.
Yet. Defaulting to it is one step on the path towards removing support for X and independent window managers forever.
I deeply, deeply care about running an independent window manager. A minimal X window manager is a page of code: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c (yes, plus xlib); a minimal Wayland compositor is tens of thousands of lines of code.
> contrary to your statements, it's perfectly ready for prime time
These comments are full of folks mentioning issues. Wayland does not support my window manager; thus it is demonstrably not ready for prime time for me.
> Wayland is the way forward
It may actually be. I’m not as opposed to Wayland as I may sound! But do you understand how you and other Wayland advocates sound — like advocates? ‘Wayland is the way forward’; ‘there's no future for Xorg’; these things are arguably true, but they are also rather cruel to say (a bit like ‘inevitably you and everyone will die’: it really is true, but it’s also not at all a nice thing to say).
I do think that Wayland or something very like it may be the way forward, but it needs to be an evolution, not a revolution. I know that the party line is that that’s not possible, but I suspect that rather than not possible it is just very hard. It’s always easier to greenfield, and it is always hell to be 100% backwards compatible.
But that’s what it needs to be.
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RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
Hah. I didn't think this was quite HN worthy at this point - the code is still a mess, and has plenty of bugs. It was however the wm I actually use since I got frustrated with bspwm and did a very minimalist rewrite of TinyWM [1] in Ruby [2] and expanded it from there. It was painful the first few days until I'd had time to add multiple desktops and the start of a tiling mode. But at this point, it's "almost" pleasant for me.
The warnings are real, though, apart from the initial hyperbole - this is likely to break for you in all kinds of horrible ways still. I use very few applications beyond (my own) terminal, (my own) polybar replacement, (my own) file manager, and a browser, and so once Chrome and my own apps mostly started working ok I've had very little incentive to make sure it behaves nicely with anything else and I know the distinction between different EWMH window types is incomplete and broken - just not in ways that usually affect my own use.
[1] https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c
[2] https://gist.github.com/vidarh/1cdbfcdf3cfd8d25a247243963e55...
- What’s something simple but interesting I can build with c
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WM like i3wm
picking a random bare bones wm tinywm
- TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C
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I cannot find the desktop environment for me
Or Check out TinyWM. Its just a few lines of code.
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WM/DE iceberg
TinyWM
leftwm
- Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
- if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
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Where should I adventure myself
(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))
- LeftWM – A tiling window manager for Adventurers
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Preferred DE/WM?
LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.
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Picom backend optimization
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:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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
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Arch + Tiling Window Manager
Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm
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Different window managers (e.g. tiling) on Windows?
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!
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Komorebi: Another tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning
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.
What are some alternatives?
chadwm - Making dwm as beautiful as possible!
i3-and-kde-plasma - How to install the i3 window manager on KDE
dwm-xcb - A port of dwm to XCB.
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
wayland-rs - Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
dwl - dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
my-penrose-config - My personal penrose config