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I created my own X11 window manager [1] at the start of this year in around 800 lines of C. I had been using dwm (4000 lines of C) for many years and wished to
by ChanderG 1y ago
I created my own X11 window manager [1] at the start of this year in around 800 lines of C.
I had been using dwm (4000 lines of C) for many years and wished to write my own for a long time, but what made me take the leap was really steveWM [2] and TinyWM [3] which are both super small.
[1] - https://github.com/ChanderG/cellwm https://github.com/ChanderG/cellwm
[2] - https://github.com/stodd1031/steveWM https://github.com/stodd1031/steveWM
[3] - https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm
- vidarh 1y agoTinyWM was the starting-point for my wm in Ruby as well. It really drives home just how little you need to get started.