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kiwmi
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A fully manual tiling window manager for the X window system.
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Why?
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There's not enough so called "manual" tiling window managers and none of the existing ones is *fully* manual.
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When a new window opens, without having space assigned, I don't want my WM to suddenly be dynamic and just put it _somewhere_ or even on top something that's already existing.
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Concepts
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I don't know what you expect to find here.
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It's a window manager: there's tags (workspaces), windows and they get arranged.
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So what happens when a window is created when there's no space yet?
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It's put in a queue, from where it can be popped into available space (which is also getting a cool name soon).
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This also solves the problem of creating a window and moving the focus before it spawns, since you can assign future queue positions to available space.
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I plan on having available space behave like a window, so that you don't have to think about stuff, but we'll see about that.
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Configuration
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Configuration languages suck and they add a lot of complexity to a program.
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`kiwmi` listens to a socket and offers a basic client (called `seed`) to communicate with the WM.
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This allows you to write your configuration in any language you want, while also removing the task of listening to keybinds for me, since you can use tools like https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd[sxhkd] to do that.
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Building
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Configuration can be done mostly in link:config.mk[config.mk].
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. Be sure to have the dependencies installed (libxcb).
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. `make`
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. `sudo make install`
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Contribution
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You want to contribute? Great!
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Future requests, bug reports and PRs are welcome. Be sure to read the link:CONTRIBUTING.adoc[CONTRIBUTING.adoc]. Note that pull requests without a valid issue they reference are ignored, to decrease the amount of duplicate work.
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If anything is unclear, feel free to reach out to me.
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