goomwwm

Get out of my way, Window Manager! (by seanpringle)

Goomwwm Alternatives

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  • River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2022
    I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic!

    [1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm

    [2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca)

  • Switching to the I3 Window Manager
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021
    I came to filing window managers through musca[1] and then goomwwm[2] (Get Out Of My Way Window Manager) and then switched to i3 (and more recently, away) because both Musca and goomwwm haven’t been updated in years.

    I still miss Musca and goomwwm. They didn’t require any visualisation of the hierarchy, things were just layer out next to each other without a hierarchy and just worked. It was very intuitive. Goomwwm went a step further: it’s not technically a tiling window manager at all, but rather a floating window manager (so you can have your windows overlap if you want) that happens to be usable as if it were tiling and that’s keyboard centric (but you can use mouse too if you wish). That really was the sweet spot for me and I often find annoying behaviour in i3/sway that goomwwm didn’t have (typically around movement and resizing).

    [1] https://github.com/enticeing/musca (original source and all documentation seems to be gone)

    [2] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm

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seanpringle/goomwwm is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of goomwwm is C.

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