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I am once again considering to write my own window manager (ma.fellr.net)

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I am once again considering to write my own window manager

...unless the setup I am thinking of is already possible, let me construct this in your head:

On the top of the screen, there is narrow status bar, which is split into two parts. On the right side of the bar, you have your clock, your battery, your signal strength and so on.

On the left side, there is a clickable tab for every window you have opened. It's like browser tabs: Every window always uses the entire space below the status bar.

On the far left, there could be an icon which opens a searchable list of applications, kind of like #dmenu but vertical. Everything supports mouse input as you would expect.

Does that exist? Should I make it? It would be awesome for smaller screens, like phones.

Edit: I should add that I'm planning to run it on a Nokia N900 with a single 600 MHz CPU core, 256 MB RAM and a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Existing full desktop environments like Xfce4, LXDE, and so on are way to heavy to run.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out awesome wm and i3 if you haven't already

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@mvirts @chinstrap

I haven't looked too deep into what's possible with the config files of i3 or awesome. Maybe I should do that first. I just assumed they would be too keyboard focused. I want everything to be visible on screen, so you don't have to remember hotkeys.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you want should be quite easy to achieve with i3/sway or awesomewm. i3 has a slew of possibilities for "bars", even the xfce/kde panels: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/i3#i3bar_alternatives

Awesomewm is totally usable via the mouse and infinetly extendaple via lua.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wish it would be easier to set it up and run it a s a floating WM, with proper window decorations and movement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you want it floating if every window is maximized? These requirements contradict each other.

The linux community is IMHO a bit focused on tiling WMs. I like tiling as well, but in this case: the vanilla gnome workflow is kinda 70% of what you want already. The rest can be done via extensions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I want floating because I DON'T want every window maximized.

To be honest, I actually only want Openbox but it run's with Wayland (no, labwc is missing too many fetures).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey I thought you we're going to use it on an N900! :P