[not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start.

Thanks.


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Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

[Shachar Or]

On Sunday 20 July 2008 09:04, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
 I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start.

Look at the dependencies of the x-window-manager virtual package. Look at the 
sources of the simple ones.


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Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know.

Thanks.

Shachar Or wrote:

On Sunday 20 July 2008 09:04, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
  

I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start.



Look at the dependencies of the x-window-manager virtual package. Look at the 
sources of the simple ones.


  

Thanks.



  



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Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

[Shachar Or]

On Sunday 20 July 2008 14:32, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
 Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know.

You may want to go with those that do not depend on extra libraries to keep 
things simple; not the ones that are part of a desktop environment for the 
same reason.

On a different note, if I were to try out a new WM now, It'd be 'awesome' 
which is in backports now.

Good week!

 Thanks.

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Re: [not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:25:44PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:
 On Sunday 20 July 2008 14:32, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
  Any suggestions about which one? DWM? I do not know.
 
 You may want to go with those that do not depend on extra libraries to keep 
 things simple; not the ones that are part of a desktop environment for the 
 same reason.

I'd second that. keep it simple. If you can grok haskell, then look at
xmonad. It's a basic tiling window manager in just a few hundred lines
of code. Otherwise, look at the other small ones: awesome, as
mentioned; maybe wmii, they recently redid the whole thing, so it's
likely that the code is fairly clean, others? 

A


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