vild/dwin

A tiled window manager written in D.

DWin - D always win

PLEASE NOTE THAT DWIN IS IN A PRE-ALPHA STATE. NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE!

Description

DWin is a tiling window manager written in the lovely language called D.

It currently uses X11 as it's backend but will also be ported to wayland in the future.

##Usage

DWin is a tiled based window manager written in the lovely language called D
-d   --display The display to run it on
-n --no-xephyr Run it native, without Xephyr
-h      --help This help information.

To start DWin natively make a ~/.xinitrc file with the following content

dwin -d 0 -n

And then run startx

You can then:

• Spawn xterm: Ctrl + Enter
• Spawn xeyes: Ctrl + Backspace
• Move a window: Ctrl + Mouse1
• Resize a window: Ctrl + Mouse3
• Close a window: Ctrl + Shift + Escape
• Move to a workspace on the left: Ctrl + 1
• Move to a workspace on the right: Ctrl + 2
• Promote window to OnTop: Ctrl + P
• Promote window to OnTop: Ctrl + O
• Print window hierarchy: Ctrl + F5
• Kill DWin: Escape

Authors

Dan "Wild" Printzell

License

Mozilla Public License, version 2.0

dwin's Issues

suggestion: Save current layout

The ability to save the current layout of windows so that it could get reloaded again after t.ex. a reboot.

GIF

Custom keybindings config file

Keybindings are currently hard coded making keybindings harder to edit. Having a clear text config file for keybindings would make them easier to edit to personal needs.

Windows spawning in the workspace they were called from

In bspwm when you start e.g. Eclipse IDE in a workspace it will take ages to load and if you have switched workspace since you started Eclipse IDE and it has fully loaded a new window of Eclipse will spawn in the workspace you are currently working in. Instead of that happening the software being called should be bound to the workspace that it was started/called in if the user doesn't move it manually to another workspace.

Feh can't get background image: imagehost is down

The domain that was hosting the desktop background image is no longer availible.
It should be changed to a live site or a local file should be used.

Make xsession file

To launch DWin via a Display Manager you need a file in /usr/share/xsessions/ for the DM to execute.
My suggestion for the file name would be dwin.desktop

Take a look at bspwm's .desktop file

[Livecoding stream] Chat just exploded ;_;

I must go sleep and I don't want to you don't know what's going on (that don't show error if you don't write anything).
Ty for explain, good luck and good night :)
I hope it can be deleted...

Reloading keybindings

I know that keybind config hasn't been implemented yet but being able to reload the config file after a small config teak while the WM is running is necessary.

sugestion: sticky windows on multiple workspaces

Make one or more window stick to every workspace.

GIF

Rework the container system

Currently the container system has problems with getting rid of old windows.
Should probably change it up so the window instances are only located at a single place and not everywhere.