I often think about creating a new window manager. Maybe for #FreeBSD. It could be inspired by Apple. Now might be the right time, since #Gnome has shifted in another direction. The Aqua-looking buttons could be replaced with something else, that's not important at the moment. There are also a lot of opportunities to create an interesting dock that is more interactive, similar to what Enlightenment #WM did, but in a more stylish way. Who wants to help me with the code?

#ui #windowmanager #bsd

Sway 1.11 Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Support for Explicit Synchronization

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://9to5linux.com/sway-1-11-tiling-wayland-compositor-adds-support-for-explicit-synchronization

Keeping an eye on
https://uint23.xyz/sxwm.html
https://github.com/uint23/sxwm

#windowmanager

#Wayland 1.23.91 (1.24 RC1) has been released (#WaylandCompositor / #DisplayServer / #WindowManager / #X11) https://wayland.freedesktop.org/

Ah, finally! A window manager written in Prolog—because that's exactly what the world needed. 🙄 Let's use a logic programming language for something best done in C, because who doesn't love a good challenge? 🚀
https://github.com/Seeker04/plwm #windowmanager #Prolog #programmingchallenge #logicprogramming #HackerNews #Cprogramming #HackerNews #ngated

One excellent advantage of the ultrawide monitor is the #Fluxbox groups / tabs have more space, so I am grouping more windows together. Can focus on one at a time, but also switch easily between them with Super+Left/Right Arrows.

#Linux #gui #WindowManager

I'm still amazed by the power / speed yet paradoxical simplicity of FluxBox

I've seen many Window and Desktop Managers in the past decades.
For as far as I remember; this is the only Window manager FluxBox, which enables multiple monitor background choosing in the login requester screens out of the box, I repeat OUT OF THE BOX

#FluxBox #WM #DM #WindowManager #DesktopManager #DesktopEnvironment #POSIX #OpenSource

@rl_dane @tripplehelix

Do you know what I did decades ago when Gnome removed easily configurable features? I just went to another Window / Desktop manager combination. I was playing with fvwm Enlightenment Black Box FluxBox & others before KDE & Gnome.

I compiled fvwm from sources way back in the beginning, when Linux had no x Windows at all, when we literally had to build everything from sources even use a disc editor to put magic bytes on the boot sector first on the floppy and then later on on the MBR of the ATA hard drive

IMHO Enlightenment still rocks even today!

Regardless of the reasons of the programmers of Gnome to go that route of in_configurability decades ago, they have many many people like that desktop environment.

Ironic but both the rigid in_configurability of Gnome and the configurability to the pixel of KDE is needed for the planet.

For similar reasons many Legacy Window Managers not only still exist, but are actively maintained, so that they can compile in current POSIX operating systems

I, for example can't understand why people need to use Apple Hardware, which is inferior, in an Apple 🍎 ecosystem which dominates every move you make, but obviously millions of people in the States who need it exist, otherwise they wouldn't buy a phone that's produced for $10 for $2,000 right?

#Gnome #KDE #DesktopManager #Environment #WindowManager #WM #GTK #UI #POSIX #GNU

Reading man pages is important. When you realize that a switch left your long term RAM you usually type man command.

However just opening a manual of a DE you use daily can show you stuff you did not know were (easily) possible

Im working again with a few WM and DE I had left for various reasons.

man is my friend

#Linux #DE #WM #OpenSource #KDE #XFce #WindowManager #DesktopManager #POSIX #programming

Hmm. How does one word this inquiry...
Do any of you out there in the #Fediverse know of a #windowmanager or a #desktopenviroment that is pretty install-and-forget, similar to #cosmic, which has auto-tiling enabled by default?

I'm tired. I don't want to go hand-configuring two config files and a bunch of lines of things, I just want something that works, and can possibly run on an ITX ARM board with only 8gb of RAM.

GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released With Fixes for Multiple Security Vulnerabilities #Screen #TerminalMultiplexer #WindowManager #Linux #Security #Bugfixes #Opensource
https://ostechnix.com/gnu-screen-5-0-1-released/

I made a few more updates to my #niri #dotfiles (A really cool Wayland window manager), most notably adding a script that automatically rotates between random wallpapers every 30 minutes.

https://github.com/nfoert/niri-dotfiles

#linux #wayland #windowmanager

Back to AeroSpace on my Mac.
#macos
#windowmanager
#i3

Day 11 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD :freebsd:

Hello Openbox! Its been awhile. 🙂

I'm re-acquainting myself with the Openbox window manager on my new FreeBSD laptop. I was a happy user for a few years before moving to Linux Mint Debian and Cinnamon desktop.

Currently rethinking my config with help from this excellent HOWTO courtesy of @vermaden ...

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/freebsd-desktop-part-12-configuration-openbox/

#Openbox #Windowmanager #FreeBSD #RunBSD

Today I tried to use a regular window manager again after living in #Emacs #exwm for about a year.

I just gave up: it feels constrained and unusable.

M-x exwm-init to the rescue. Much nicer again, despite its shortcomings.

#freesoftware #windowmanager

After months exclusively using the #OpenSource #Wayland #Sway #WindowManager, I'm finding that I would be grateful if there was a way to do the following with #mouse. Increase the #MouseCursor size, #LockScreen with mouse, open #Calendar with mouse, reboot or shutdown with mouse, adjust screen #brightnessctl and #wlsunset with mouse, open #BluetoothManager with mouse, open wifi and network settings with mouse, #AppLauncher with mouse. I'm uncertain of how to approach some of these on #SwayWM