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igor_b

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 14

rwma - ruby window manager addons

what is it?
rwma is a modular system for adding various keyboard driven actions to (usualy minimalistic) window managers, inspired by ruby-wmii. Its main purpose is launching programs and displaying notifications but can be expanded with plugins (for example translation, advanced calculator, music player control, volume control).

why?
ruby-wmii was a great thing, but I'm not using wmii any more (XMonad rulez ). I wanted some kind of wrapper for dmenu and dzen.

what's it good for?
It is possible to bind keyboard shortcuts to various actions in it. Most usual action is launching programs. Beside classic usage of dmenu for running program, rwma (actually Launcher plugin for it) allows you to easily set a path to the file (or directory) that will be used as an argument to a program. You can also start typing any mathematical expression and use any math function that Ruby's Math module supports, use variables, ...

It is very easy to write plugins to add any other type of functionality

how can i try it?
Download it from http://hyperglitch.com/dev/rwma

It is still in early stages of development so various bugs are expected.

FALK

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 95

Re: rwma - ruby window manager addons

Looks cool, how about a pkgbuild?

igor_b

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 14

Re: rwma - ruby window manager addons

Looks cool, how about a pkgbuild?

I made it (my first ever )
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37556