If you're a Racketeer on a GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc., and like to do
cool nerdy things like try a custom tiling window manager... you might
want to join me in using Laurent Orseau's RWind window manager, which is
written in Racket.
You can install RWind from the Racket package repository, or do a `git
clone` and `raco pkg install`. Documentation is here:
https://github.com/Metaxal/rwind/blob/master/README.md
Out of the box, it's a good foundation, but it needs your personal
customizations, at least to "~/.config/rwind/config.rkt", and possibly
also to your Git checkout.
I initially started looking at adapting RWind for a handheld Racket GUI
for PostmarketOS ("https://www.neilvandyke.org/postmarketos/";), and
decided to also use RWind atop my workstation, to speed up development.
To use RWind on your workstation, you might craft your own "~/.xsession"
or "~/.xinitrc" file, and include a loop that keeps swapping between
RWind and a stable other window manager while keeping your X session
running (in case you break RWind while hacking on it), something like this:
# Loop between X window managers, infinitely.
# Note that there's neither `exec` nor `&` here.
# The X startup script is waiting on the window manager to exit
# and then starts the other window manager.
while true ; do
xmonad
racket -l rwind
done
If you have a window manager development setup like this, remember that,
if all else fails, you can always `kill -HUP` and `killall -HUP` (your
window manager process, script process, X server process, individual X
clients, etc.). If you can't type that shell command from within the X
session at the moment, Ctrl-Alt-F2 will probably get you a text mode
console login from which you can type that command, and/or start other X
clients -- then switch back with Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 or one of
the others. You might not ever have to do this, but you can.
Please consider sharing your customization to RWind, whether it's
posting small config tweaks on "racket-users", making a Racket package
to supplement the `rwind` Racket package, or making a Git pull request
to `rwind` if you discover a bug.
BTW, if you've already worked on a Matchbox-like layout and subtleties
for RWind (one "app" visible at a time, plus a static bar across the
bottom, and permitting a popup screen keyboard tiled window), please let
me know. For the Racket handheld, I want to do that, plus a combination
app launcher and app switcher (that makes both functions look the same
to the user, and might also let us sleep/wake busy non-handheld-friendly
legacy programs we haven't yet replaced with ones written in Racket).
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