After trying the concept for about a week I find it very irritating as soon as you have more than three clients. It works if all you do with your computer is browsing and IRC. I think a better concept for a very minimalistic window manager would be some thing like 2wm.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Leandro Chescotta <lchesco...@banelco.com.ar> wrote: > Some quick and dirty ideas for the name: > SWM like "Simple Window Manager" or "Suckless Window Manager" > SDWM "Stripped DWM" or "simple dynamic window manager" > FSWM "Full Screen Window Manager" > MOWM "MOnocle Window Manager" > XTWM "X Tiling Window Manager" > > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: rickard.gustaf...@gmail.com [mailto:rickard.gustaf...@gmail.com] En > nombre de Rickard Gustafsson > Enviado el: martes, 05 de mayo de 2009 07:51 p.m. > Para: dwm mail list > Asunto: Re: [dwm] [idea] mwm - minimal/minimun/monocle window manager > > I could not stop thinking of this concept since I read this post. > Mostley because I have fooled around with ratpoison a bit the last > weeks. So tonight I sat down and tried to realise some of the ideas > with dwm-5.5 as foundation. It is almost only cut'n'paste from the > source and removing some parts. > > I have kept mwfac because I think i maybe nice to have a layout where > the screen is split into two sections (just realised I should have > kept zoom() then). Floating layout is still there because I think it > is nice to be able to handle floats and apps like gimp in a flexible > fashion. > > Client numbering is a bit screwed up to. This because clients are > added to the list of clients in a fifo fashion and I have not figured > out how to change this behavior. Do I need to change booth attach and > attachstack? > > And I hope I have not screwed up in some licensing manner. > > Here it is I some one would like to check it out. > http://web.student.chalmers.se/~rickardg/mwm-0.0.tar.gz > > Regards > Rickard Gustafsson > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Leandro Chescotta > <leandro.chesco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> minimal/minimum/monocle window manager, this come to my head today, when i >> meet antiwm http://sourceforge.net/projects/antiwm this is like dwm, but >> with no tags, no bottom bar, no layouts, more like ratpoison, the thing is >> that i tryed ratpoison and antiwm, and it lacks a couple of things, so, i >> see that suckless have wmii, stripping down there is dwm, and why not a >> smaller one like a suckless antiwm... mwm! :) this are the things i think >> mwm need... >> >> - no tags, only a "list" of opened windows, that you can cycle with one >> keybinding or Alt+number >> - no bottom bar, just the window list that you can show/hide >> - no layouts, only a monocle-like one, and a floating "layer" for >> mplayer/feh/gimp >> - lol, an arch linux AUR package with the config.h ready to customize the >> few font/colors/keybindings/apps >> >> maybe this is not worthy, but i like the idea, maybe you too, maybe is like >> getting dwm code and strip it down a little, only, maybe not... >> > > > > > La información del presente documento es clasificada como Confidencial. > >