#windowManager

2025-06-09
Hmmm this looks interesting but I've not yet tried it a #TilingWM called Maomaowm with the followings features.

In addition to inheriting dwl's core features and common functions found in other compositors, maomao also supports unique functionalities from other projects. These include:

- Hyprland’s animations,
- Sway’s additional protocols,
- Labwc’s text input method,
- Niri’s scrolling layout.

However, these are implemented in a deliberately lightweight and simplistic manner to avoid bloated code.

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/maomaowm

#Wayland #WindowManager #DWL
Neustradamus :xmpp: :linux:neustradamus
2025-05-26
N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-25

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? 🚀
github.com/Seeker04/plwm

スパックマン クリスchris_spackman@twit.social
2025-05-20

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

Dendrobatus AzureusDendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe
2025-05-19

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

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Dendrobatus AzureusDendrobatus_Azureus@bsd.cafe
2025-05-18

@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

pfm 🧘 :mastodont: pfm@edolas.world
2025-05-17
I've just found fox and swapwm (a minimalistic #Forth and a #WindowManager written in it), and I'm in awe. There are so many cool projects out there!

https://hg.sr.ht/~telesto/fox
2025-05-16

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

2025-05-15

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.

2025-05-13
nfoertnfoert
2025-05-12

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

github.com/nfoert/niri-dotfiles

Angel of My Dreams :fsfe:System32
2025-05-12

Back to AeroSpace on my Mac.


Daniel Wayne Armstrongdwarmstrong@fosstodon.org
2025-05-11

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 ...

vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07

#Openbox #Windowmanager #FreeBSD #RunBSD

2025-05-10
Just shared a glimpse of my desktop setup over on https://deskto.ps!
Currently rocking a cool bitmap wallpaper from the bitmap-walls(https://github.com/dkeg/bitmap-walls) collection
something about those simple patterns just clicks for me.

Plus, everything feels so snappy with my trusty TWM. What does your desktop look like?
Share your screenshots! ☻☻☻
#Desktop #Linux #TWM #WindowManager #Bitmap #Wallpaper #Minimalism #ShowYourDesktop

Mine -> https://deskto.ps/u/r1w1s1/d/pfpn2j
Arne BabenhauserheideArneBab@rollenspiel.social
2025-05-09

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

Wizards Anonymouscrft
2025-05-09

After months exclusively using the , I'm finding that I would be grateful if there was a way to do the following with . Increase the size, with mouse, open with mouse, reboot or shutdown with mouse, adjust screen and with mouse, open with mouse, open wifi and network settings with mouse, with mouse. I'm uncertain of how to approach some of these on

Daniel Wayne Armstrongdwarmstrong@fosstodon.org
2025-05-08

Day 08 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD :freebsd:

Today I'm exploring the portable version of OpenBSD's cwm (calm window manager).

First impression is... What a lightweight delight! ❤️ It includes enough out-of-box to be immediately useful, and together with excellent man pages cwm(1) and cwmrc(5) its proving easy to customize in a single plain text config file:

github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm

#cwm #windowmanager #FreeBSD #RunBSD

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