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screenshot (in use): https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png Took heavy inspiration from dwm, bluewm, tinywm, lainwm and the li

by mcpcpc 6y ago

screenshot (in use): https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png Took heavy inspiration from dwm, bluewm, tinywm, lainwm and the likes to create what I would consider a minimally viable window manager solution. The project is C99 POSIX and MISRA compliant, which promotes portability, security and safety of the source. I would say the target audience are those that spend most of their time staring at a single terminal and periodically need to jump into a GUI based application (e.g. web browser). There are many projects like this, but I am hoping to improve on previous ones by reducing the overall complexity (per the KISS principle) and improve upon documentation. I am still developing my C programming skills, so all feedback is welcomed. =) Enjoy!

pdkl95 6y ago
> screenshot (in use): https://clbin.com/OEh1h https://clbin.com/OEh1h $ HEAD https://clbin.com/OEh1h | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 The webserver is sending the image with the wrong content type, which makes some browsers (like mine) display the file as text. Viewing the file locally as a png works fine, but the browser only knows it's a png from the HTTP Content-Type header. > I am hoping to improve ... reducing the overall complexity I wish more projects had this goal. LDLIBS = -lm ALL_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -lxcb -lxcb-keysyms The runtime deps - like the wm screenshot - are beautifully simple.
- mcpcpc 6y ago
  thanks! I spent quite a bit of time stripping out as many dependencies as i could. will update the screenshot link shortly.
- mcpcpc 6y ago
  new link: https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png
callinyouin 6y ago
Love the simplicity, and it looks like this could serve as a great example for people wanting to write their own WM. Might I suggest adding a link to a screenshot directly in the README? I personally have a weird fascination with window managers so I'm likely to check this out regardless, but a screenshot could go a long way in terms of generating interest. If you care about that sort of thing. :) I see you have a minimalist IRC client as well. Funny, I've been meaning to get back into C specifically to toy around with the idea of writing my own WM and IRC client. Both projects look like great examples, thanks for sharing!
- mcpcpc 6y ago
  Thanks! It's been an almost 8mo journey learning C to get to this point. Ultimately it was the people that I interacted with and the user contributions that propelled me to make xwm. I intentionally omitted a screenshot in the README as xwm, by itself, is not attractive. Also, really I wanted to leave ricing/tweak/patching to be entirely user contribution driven. I may consider, though, adding a directory in the patches (https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm-patches https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm-patches) repo for user contributed screenshots though.
tyingq 6y ago
Different screenshot: https://clbin.com/iu9cJ https://clbin.com/iu9cJ

by mcpcpc 6y ago

pdkl95 6y ago

> screenshot (in use): https://clbin.com/OEh1h https://clbin.com/OEh1h $ HEAD https://clbin.com/OEh1h | grep Content-Type Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 The webserver is sending the image with the wrong content type, which makes some browsers (like mine) display the file as text. Viewing the file locally as a png works fine, but the browser only knows it's a png from the HTTP Content-Type header. > I am hoping to improve ... reducing the overall complexity I wish more projects had this goal. LDLIBS = -lm ALL_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -lxcb -lxcb-keysyms The runtime deps - like the wm screenshot - are beautifully simple.

mcpcpc 6y ago
thanks! I spent quite a bit of time stripping out as many dependencies as i could. will update the screenshot link shortly.
mcpcpc 6y ago
new link: https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png https://i.redd.it/ve0ra9qip7y51.png

callinyouin 6y ago

Love the simplicity, and it looks like this could serve as a great example for people wanting to write their own WM. Might I suggest adding a link to a screenshot directly in the README? I personally have a weird fascination with window managers so I'm likely to check this out regardless, but a screenshot could go a long way in terms of generating interest. If you care about that sort of thing. :) I see you have a minimalist IRC client as well. Funny, I've been meaning to get back into C specifically to toy around with the idea of writing my own WM and IRC client. Both projects look like great examples, thanks for sharing!

mcpcpc 6y ago
Thanks! It's been an almost 8mo journey learning C to get to this point. Ultimately it was the people that I interacted with and the user contributions that propelled me to make xwm. I intentionally omitted a screenshot in the README as xwm, by itself, is not attractive. Also, really I wanted to leave ricing/tweak/patching to be entirely user contribution driven. I may consider, though, adding a directory in the patches (https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm-patches https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm-patches) repo for user contributed screenshots though.

tyingq 6y ago

Different screenshot: https://clbin.com/iu9cJ https://clbin.com/iu9cJ