StarWM is an extensible window manager written in Rust.

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Overview

Please Note: StarWM is not in a very usable state as of yet. It is for this reason that there is very little documentation as it will most likely change quite quickly.

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StarWM

StarWM is an extensible window manager written in Rust.

Why?

StarWM is a window manager that was initially started as an experiment. Nowadays, it's a community effort to create a window manager that can be used on your favourite linux distro. StarWM isn't really usable day to day just yet, but with ongoing work, we hope that it will provide a great experience. We aim to keep the codebase as clean as possible, so that anyone can read the code and understand with as little effort as possible. Feel free to have a look at the commit history and take the time to understand how it's constructed. You can use it to create your own WM, if you feel like it, just be sure to keep the GPL3 license if redistributing it.

Plans?

There are plans to make this extensible, possibly through a Lua interpreter. We are looking into if it could function perfectly as both a tiling and floating window manager, perhaps the addition of window decorations would also be possible.

Installation

Currently StarWM is not packaged in any distribution,

Please see INSTALL.md for installation instructions

Made with love by Cob:web-Aclevo and our Open source contributors:

Curlpipe - Lead Developer

lyiriyah - Contributing towards active window features.

whyAdamSalt - Writing installation instructions and re-wording the readme file.

Please join the Cob:web-Aclevo discord to talk to us and contribute to our projects: https://discord.gg/z3GXvGtuek

Comments
  • Migrate from rust-xcb to x11rb

    Migrate from rust-xcb to x11rb

    It appears that x11rb has a similar API, and is more heavily documented with a more active community and commit history. It also has several examples that we can reference when it comes to implementing future features. The API isn't too dissimilar that migrating would be too difficult.

    Perhaps it is better to stay with what is already there, however now is the time to migrate if need be, before the code becomes more complicated.

    https://github.com/psychon/x11rb

    enhancement wontfix Medium Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 1
  • Pop up menus are broken

    Pop up menus are broken

    They seem to appear and then disappear a few milliseconds afterwards. I observed this behaviour in Firefox. Not sure if this extends to other applications, it probably does.

    bug High Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 1
  • Moving windows between workspaces

    Moving windows between workspaces

    Moving windows between workspaces is essential in any window manager.

    When a keybinding is pressed, may I suggest binding it to Mod+Shift+Number where number is the workspace to move the currently focussed window to, the currently focussed window should be taken from the current workspace, and moved to the workspace elsewhere. That workspace should then move it's focus to the moved window.

    enhancement good first issue Medium Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 0
  • Add monocle mode

    Add monocle mode

    Monocle mode is where a window is enlarged to fill the full screen size. Only one window can be placed into monocle mode at one time. By default, in monocle mode, other windows in the workspace unmap (hide) themselves. I suggest adding a monocle attribute to the workspace struct, to allow for multiple workspaces to have monocle mode, this can be an Option that is None when no monocle window is present, and Some for when there is one.

    enhancement Low Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 0
  • Configuration guidelines

    Configuration guidelines

    Hi There!

    I am not sure if I missed anything in the docs! However, I couldn't find anything related to the configuration as such. I am aware of the src configurations, but maybe a line or two about configuration would help those who'd like to test it on the fly.

    Thanks, DN-debug

    opened by DN-debug 0
  • Window titlebars

    Window titlebars

    Add window title bars with the title of the window, and a close button. They only have to be simple, they can be made more complex later on. They could also be used to drag windows around.

    enhancement Low Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 2
  • Handling multiple screens

    Handling multiple screens

    There are currently 3 ways to handle multiple screens

    1 (dwm style)

    Each screen has it's own set of workspaces

    2 (i3 style)

    Each screen is a view to a workspace, and the keyboard controls the screen with the mouse cursor in

    3 (default)

    A screen is an extension to a workspace

    I'm not sure which to choose, but perhaps there could be a way to configure it so that the user could choose the preferred method. For now, just one style could be used, with the configuration part coming later.

    enhancement High Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 2
  • Extra install instructions & screenshot update

    Extra install instructions & screenshot update

    Screenshot in the readme is outdated, requires an update that showcases the new window borders.

    Seeing as this issue is quite a small request, perhaps adding installation instructions for more distributions is a wise idea at this stage.

    • Void
    • Arch
    • Debian (might be the same as ubuntu, and in that case, make a note)
    • Gentoo

    That should cover most bases.

    documentation help wanted good first issue Low Priority 
    opened by curlpipe 1
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