Well although there are many WM around but i want an non existant mix. If i manage to do that i dont think that there would be anyone else in the whole world interested in it. I use ratpoison as my WM. Which is a tiling window manager totally keyboard driven. But it does nothing fancy (i dont blame the devs its there philosophy to keep it simple). But i want an tiling window manager which can do some fancy stuff like the compiz things. Like when i try to change the window or frame i sould get some animation. Wobally windows should be good.
As rubly is the only good language i know expt c++. I just wanted to check if i can get the ease of ruby in my WM. If I could use ruby it would be better than c++. Thats why i just kind of asked On 7/10/08, Bram Senders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:48 PM, paresh mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I know it sounds far fetched, but i was just wondering while playing with > > shoes. Is it practically possible to write a whole Window Manager in > shoes > > or for that matter any other library of ruby. > > You need to do a lot of low-level Xlib stuff to write a window manager > (at least, if you are talking about a window manager in the X11 > sense), and although there are some Ruby bindings for Xlib > (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-xlib/, > http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-xlib-wrap/), they seem kind of > stagnant and old. It should be theoretically possible to write a WM > using that, although I don't think using Shoes for the graphical stuff > would be feasable (I don't think there are methods to embed random X > windows into a Shoes app). > > Might I ask what you are looking for in a window manager that you are > wanting to write it yourself, given that there are already hundreds of > WM's out there? > > Ciao, > Bram >
