dvn0 / minimal

A window manager written in Nim, inspired by dwm and i3

minimal

A window manager written in Nim, inspired by dwm and i3

Development

Using Xephyr makes things a lot easier. It can be found as xserver-xephyr on Ubuntu/Debian & xorg-server-xephyr in Arch Linux.

Launch Xephyr:

$ Xephyr -ac -br -noreset -screen 800x600 :1 &

Run minimal under display :1:

$ DISPLAY=:1 ./minimal

Launch applications under the Xephyr server:

$ DISPLAY=:1 xterm

Usage

As of now, minimal only supports moving & resizing windows. That can be done using Mod4 + left mouse & Mod4 + right mouse, respectively. Windows can be raised using Mod4 + F1.

xterm windows can be spawned using Mod4 + Return & destroyed using Mod4 + Q.