Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?

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  • leftwm

    A tiling window manager for Adventurers

  • 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

  • gabelstaplerwm

    A window manager in Rust, using XCB

  • 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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  • dwm-xcb

    A port of dwm to XCB.

  • 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

  • penrose

    A library for writing an X11 tiling window manager (by sminez)

  • You might find Penrose interesting. Basically a rust library that you can use to write your own X11 window manager without needing to deal with a lot of the lower level details of X11.

  • tinywm

    The tiniest window manager.

  • In theory, you can make a tiny WM, but it won't do much. You could port that to Rust if you want. But turning it into a real WM that you'd actually want to use is not something that a simple tutorial can really cover.

  • wayland-rs

    Rust implementation of the wayland protocol (client and server).

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    A smithy for rusty wayland compositors

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  • dwl

    Discontinued dwm for Wayland - ARCHIVE: development has moved to Codeberg

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