pwm - a simplistic tiling window manager in python3

mibitzi · 2013-08-10 02:11:27

Hello,

I want to announce a project which I have been working on in the last couple of weeks to learn about python.

PWM - A simplistic tiling window manager written in python3

As already said, pwm tries to be relatively simplistic, both in functionality as well as in code.

pwm includes:

Multiple workspaces.
A column-based layout, every window can be resized freely.
Windows can also float or be fullscreen.
A bar, similiar to i3bar.
A menu like dmenu but with fuzzy search.
Everything is configured in python.

There is no multimonitor support because I only have a laptop now with no additional screens.

For more information please check the github repo

Last edited by mibitzi (2013-08-10 02:16:16)

t0m5k1 · 2013-08-10 12:48:50

O0Ooh I like trying new WM's!

Any chance of a screenshot at all to see what we are letting ourselves in for?

kudos for doing this though.

mibitzi · 2013-08-10 12:57:57

Yes, here are two of my screenshots from the August Screenshots Thread

HalosGhost · 2013-08-10 13:22:44

Cool. Looks kind of like i3 but written in python. When you say that everything's configured in python, does that mean source editing, or does that mean there's a python config file to be edited? Just read the git info page. Looks fun! I may have to give it a shot.

All the best,

-HG

Last edited by HalosGhost (2013-08-10 13:24:16)

t0m5k1 · 2013-08-11 08:23:21

oh niiiice

will try this out

jakobcreutzfeldt · 2013-08-11 09:31:12

Congrats on the release but I'm sorry to say that the name pwm was already taken by a window manager:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWM_(window_manager)

As a general fact, ?wm is already taken. As a general tip, three letter application names should be considered very carefully since they've probably already been used sometime in the last 40 years.

Yannick_LM · 2013-08-11 19:20:11

I really like the 'column-based' approach, and the fact this is written in clean python3
(=hackable !)

Anyway, I've hit this really strange bug:
https://github.com/mibitzi/pwm/issues/1

Just wondering if I'm the only one here ...

aspidites · 2013-09-15 16:16:43

@Yannick_LM, you aren't the only one.
@mibitzi, have you given up on this project? I was really looking forward to a stable release. Also, any particular reason you wrapped xcb yourself, rather than using xpyb?

netfun81 · 2013-09-15 20:16:09

nice, installed and works. I don't seem to have the issue with some keys not working as mentioned earlier. However one issue is that the window names need to be truncated as to not overwrite on top of the status information, at least at my screen resolution. Hopefully pwm is still in active development.

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