Building a Tiling Window Manager with Rust and Penrose

• penrose

  15 1,202 7.6 Rust

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There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.

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There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.

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We could use something like polybar to build a powerful and sophisticated top-bar for our system. However, for this example we are going to use the built-in dwm_bar which mimics the bar that can be found in dwm. What's happening here is pretty straight-forward. First we populate the styling struct, and then we plug these values into the dwm_bar.

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Building your own window manager can be a very daunting undertaking. With tools like Penrose, much of the complexities involved are hidden behind helpful libraries. This particular build only scratches the surface of what can be accomplished. The complete code for this project can be found on my gitlab alongside my actual build.

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