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xwm
2bwm
- I like using bspwm, it's snappier and more responsive than other window managers
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Distro is Arch Linux and WM is 2bwm
- What is the most customizable yet easy to configure stacking (floating) window manager?
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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
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[2bwm] 爪ㄩㄒ丨几ㄚ
wm: 2bwm
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[OC] Most used WM's in this subreddit out of 1000 posts.
It's a pity 2bwm does not get the love :) https://github.com/venam/2bwm
What are some alternatives?
dwm - Personal built of Dynamic Window Manager from suckless.org
berry - :strawberry: A healthy, byte-sized window manager
kfc - A terminal-emulator color palette setter written in POSIX C99.
hello-wayland - A hello world Wayland client (mirror)
xbar - An tiny XCB information bar.
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc / 24kb compiled!).
FrankenWM - 🖼️ Fast dynamic tiling X11 window manager
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
unclutter-xfixes - Hides the cursor on inactivity (rewrite of unclutter)
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11