Emacs Is My New Window Manager

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  • exwm

    Emacs X Window Manager

  • The developer has been missing on GitHub since 2020 [1]

    [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/845

  • systemE

    🤣 A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs lisp 🤣

  • This was posted by someone else in the thread, but SystemE is close to that dream [1]:

    > Using the tooling in this repo, I am able to boot from linux to sinit as PID1, and from there to Emacs acting as PID2 using --script mode, performing all typical rc.boot system initialization using Emacs lisp until we hit the getty.

    [1]: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE

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  • awesome-ultraviolet

    Awesome WM theme with dark violet colours

  • https://github.com/peterhil/awesome-ultraviolet

    Peter Pan on Twitter: "@app4soft @probonopd @MX_Linux Screenshot of my #AwesomeWM setup. https://t.co/2XMnDEdJfN" / X

  • meow

    Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑 (by meow-edit)

  • https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

    Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.

  • cage

    A Wayland kiosk

  • I thought this was going to be some development news with Wayland compositing going further: https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/wayland/. Maybe it's because 29.1 was on my mind with the full Wayland client support being released.

    If you want to just run one application in a modern way (yes, I'm assuming you agree that Wayland is desirable), then check out https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/cage/.

  • evil

    The extensible vi layer for Emacs.

  • If you already know Vim, you should probably not use Emacs without Evil:

    https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

    It gives you comprehensive Vim bindings so what you need to learn to be comfortable in Emacs is very little. As a bonus, it also keeps your RSI risk unchanged.

  • sawfish

    Sawfish Window-Manager

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