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> No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. > All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Oh, it's like ca

> No title bars, no status bars, no buttons, no borders, no menus, etc. > All windows are full-screen, just one is visible at any given time. Oh, it's like cage ( https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage ) for X11. I was wondering ex. how you'd even move windows around in that little code; the answer is "you don't":)

chmod775 1y ago
No it's not. It lets you cycle through active windows with a hotkey, lets you close the current window, and launches dmenu to let you open more applications.
vidarh 1y ago
This one lets you move windows around: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c
mosquitobiten 1y ago
What's the point of the cage?
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
  It's probably for building appliance/kiosk systems, though it's handy for anything where you just want to run a single application fullscreen.
  - 1718627440 1y ago
    If you want a single application fullscreen, you can just not start a window manager though.
    - p_l 1y ago
      In practice multiple applications get confused, and some don't support -geometry or equivalent. One specific case I dealt with was Chrome/Chromium that provided all sorts of annoyances until we dropped in a minimal WM (back then it was awesomewm, I didn't know about cage or it didn't exist yet)
      - 1718627440 1y ago
        > applications get confused Haven't had that yet. I thought of a single application the whole time, aka. kiosk, then it shouldn't matter.
        p_l 1y ago
        In ye olden times, when most X11 applications understood "-geometry" and didn't try to do too much in absence of WM, things worked. Chromium and possibly others (Chromium is just what I have personally dealt with) was confused about what did it mean to be fullscreen, and various other ideas regarding placing itself on screen. I did success in making it work for a time, but it was problematic.

chmod775 1y ago

No it's not. It lets you cycle through active windows with a hotkey, lets you close the current window, and launches dmenu to let you open more applications.

vidarh 1y ago

This one lets you move windows around: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c

mosquitobiten 1y ago

What's the point of the cage?

yjftsjthsd-h 1y ago
It's probably for building appliance/kiosk systems, though it's handy for anything where you just want to run a single application fullscreen.
- 1718627440 1y ago
  If you want a single application fullscreen, you can just not start a window manager though.
  - p_l 1y ago
    In practice multiple applications get confused, and some don't support -geometry or equivalent. One specific case I dealt with was Chrome/Chromium that provided all sorts of annoyances until we dropped in a minimal WM (back then it was awesomewm, I didn't know about cage or it didn't exist yet)
    - 1718627440 1y ago
      > applications get confused Haven't had that yet. I thought of a single application the whole time, aka. kiosk, then it shouldn't matter.
      - p_l 1y ago
        In ye olden times, when most X11 applications understood "-geometry" and didn't try to do too much in absence of WM, things worked. Chromium and possibly others (Chromium is just what I have personally dealt with) was confused about what did it mean to be fullscreen, and various other ideas regarding placing itself on screen. I did success in making it work for a time, but it was problematic.