List of known WM's?

xdemo · 2010-12-20 19:42:21

Hello!

Sorry if this is the wrong place, i thought it would be appropriate to post here though.

I have been writing a conky script which also displays the running window manager and am curious of some less-common WM names to add to a `ps` command.

Can anyone think of some more?

Really i need the process name used (if it differs from the actual name)
Example:

${color 804000}Window Manager${color} ${alignr}${color 555555}${pre_exec ps -ef | egrep "xfwm|twm|metacity|xmonad|blackbox|hackbox|fluxbox|ratpoison|beryl|compiz|kwin" | grep -v egrep | tail -n 1 | sed 's/^.* //' || echo "Unknown WM"}${color}

Thanks!

SanskritFritz · 2010-12-20 19:45:52

You may get inspiration form this thread
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85535

xdemo · 2010-12-20 19:47:03

SanskritFritz wrote:

You may get inspiration form this thread
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85535

nice, thanks alot! (skips to last page)

canolucas · 2010-12-20 20:40:03

you may also want to check this out.

Last edited by canolucas (2010-12-20 20:41:26)

karol · 2010-12-20 21:00:42

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_window_manager

litemotiv · 2010-12-20 21:07:11

There are plenty of sources for information for this, including wikipedia, it doesn't merit it's own thread.

Closing.

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List of known WM's?

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