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Simple basic window manager.?

Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2014, 18:49
by sunburnt
I`ve Googled for a CLI controlled WM, but no luck so far. Seems like a natural to me.
All WM aspects would be controlled by CLI and/or non XML config. file, easy to use.
A rational approach.
Just raw basic window management, the tray, menus, desktop, etc. are all separate apps.
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Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2014, 19:03
by amigo
There are lots of keyboard-shortcut-driven WM's out there, like ratpoison, xmonad or evilwm.

Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2014, 19:22
by Keef
http://gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
..is the place to go WM hunting.
TinyWM is fairly basic... (50 lines of C)

EDIT This might be useful for sunburnt:
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18273&p=1
Its a thread called "30 Window Managers in 30 days" and all are available from Debian repos.

Posted: Thu 20 Mar 2014, 23:25
by technosaurus
Dwm for tabbed x11 Wm. Mcwm for floating xcb Wm.

Posted: Fri 21 Mar 2014, 23:31
by sunburnt
Many thanks guys; I`ll look at them all. Hopefully I can get a clear idea of what they are.