Nacwm

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What’s

Nearly A Compliant Window Manager

This is just my daily-drive Window Manager

In its core it’s a port of dwm to Odin with a few changes in how things are done, more and less

Note	This is pretty much a personal repo made public in case someone finds it some use. There will be sporadic commits and no releases. Also, my config is here rather than sensible defaults

Note	This repo includes Odin’s `vendor:x11/xlib` package with some modifications given some bindings were incorrect (and thus unusable) and I wanted this to compile with whatever `odin` version different distros may come with

odin build nacwm

Then just exec it in your .xinitrc or whatever your Display Manager wants you to do

Copy nacwm/config.def.odin into nacwm/config.odin, remove the #+ignore line at the top, and edit till you get something usable

Note	That’s my personal config right there so unless we have the same programs, username, and keyboard layout (I use Colemak-DH btw) it’ll be quite unusable

Restart
- Just a simple execvp()
Preserve on restart
- On restart, saves client data on a property which is loaded after
Resize corners
- Similar to resizecorners but without warping the cursor because why would you
Any click type ( clkanywhere patch )
Resize anchors
- Ensure a floating window doesn’t move from an anchored corner when it asks to be resized (doesn’t affect user resize)
- There’s currently no visual indicator for them so just rember
IPC
- May be controlled by setting the _NACWM_COMMAND property on the root window. Check nacwm/ipc.odin for details
NOTIFICATION_CLASS
- Windows won’t be raised over the window defined as NOTIFICATION_CLASS
Keybind to center floating window
Keybind to unkindly kill windows (they sometimes misbehave)
Restricting/Associating certain tags to a monitor

Rather than zooming a client to master, you swap it with another given an offset
Moving between monitors is absolute rather than relative
Assumes windows send absolute coordinates rather than relative to monitor (most windows sent absolute from what I observed; dwm hid this by centering the window, which happened often)
When moving a client to another Monitor, it’s not zoom'd (more of an implementation detail than a conscious change)

Prefers [dynamic]T instead of linked lists
Clients are identified with an index into a global array of clients (g_clients)
Clients have a monitor field rather than Monitors having a list of clients
Split into multiple files (without much logic, really, since I grep the entire thing anyways)
Stacking is much more minimalistic (windows are raised on click when floating, buried below the bar on tile)
There’s only one focused Client, rather than a focused Client per Monitor; focus/unfocus logic was also changed quite a bit
The bar is drawn with cairo and pango which introduces huge dependencies but it’s just simpler code