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cortile
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leftwm discussion
leftwm reviews and mentions
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Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
I'm surprised there hasn't been any mention of my favorite rust based tiling windows manager - leftwm (https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm?tab=readme-ov-file#why-go-l...)
- Any new Opensource projects in (rust) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
- if I wanted to make a Tiling Window Manager in Rust, how would I go about it?
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Where should I adventure myself
(Also I wouldn't mind if you want to contribute to leftwm ;))
- LeftWM – A tiling window manager for Adventurers
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Preferred DE/WM?
LeftWM if you are adventurous and want to support more Rust projects on Linux.
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Picom backend optimization
I'm using a tiling window manager (LeftWM) and picom with experimental backends for compositing. I'm running into issues configuring picom for use on my laptop when I am on battery power. Two problems arise:
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Is there a good tutorial for writing an X11 Tiling Window manager in Rust?
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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Arch + Tiling Window Manager
Been using and liking LeftWM: https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm
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Different window managers (e.g. tiling) on Windows?
In particular, I think that "ultrawide-vertical-stack" (based on "CenterMain" from LeftWM) is quite close to what you are looking for. Give it a try with komorebic change-layout ultrawide-vertical-stack!
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leftwm/leftwm is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of leftwm is Rust.