RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

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  • tinywm

    The tiniest window manager.

  • 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...

  • rubywm

    An X11 window manager in pure Ruby

  • Same, the wayback machine produces this: https://web.archive.org/web/20240122090024/https://rubyflow....

    Which points to this GitHub: https://github.com/vidarh/rubywm/tree/master

    I was hoping for some screenshots and I can't seem to find any easily. Would appreciate some screenshots/recording of it working to get a taste of it!

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  • Hyprland

    Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

  • I've been an X11 holdout since forever, but after nvidia proprietary drivers broke for the millionth time on a system upgrade, I switched over to Nouveau and the "Hyprland" tiling compositor on Wayland. It's the only setup that felt worth the upgrade to me. Setup was easy, animations are very slick (scroll down on the link below for a sample), and I've had no bugs or quirks. Highly recommend checking it out if you're bored or curious.

    https://hyprland.org/

  • lrama

  • Great to hear!

    I wonder if your ruby compiler project would benefit from the now official pure ruby parser? [1]

    [1] https://github.com/yui-knk/lrama

  • wayland_client

    A basic wayland client library.

  • I raise with a wayland client in crystal: https://github.com/yxhuvud/wayland_client

    Very basic though, you'd have to provide your own functionality to print any text..

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