vibex / penta

Penta is a python based WM, built off of wm-utils and no-wm.

Penta

Penta is a python based WM. It depends on wm-utils directly and is designed to run on top of a no-wm session.

FIFO

Penta has no direct interaction. It relies on sending messages to a fifo. Penta then reads those messages and acts upon them. All messages follow this format. First is the event (in all caps). Then a colon ":". Next comes a set of params. These are all desermined by the message. They are seperated by a comma "," and NOTHING ELSE.

The messages that Penta currently recognizes are:

• CREATE: wid = Adds a window to be managed by Penta.
• DESTROY: wid = Removes a window being managed by Penta.
• WINMOVEA: wid, x, y, w, h = Moves a window to an absolute location.
• WINMOVER: wid, x, y, w, h = Moves a window to a realative location.
• WINCORNER: wid, quadrant = Moves a window to a corner of the monitor.
• WINCENTER: wid = Moves a window to the center of the monitor.
• NEXT: wid = Goes to the next window in the list.
• PREV: wid = Goes to the prev window in the list.
• TOGRULE: wid, rule = Applies a rule to a window.
• WINTAG: wid, tag = Moves a window to a tag.
• TOGTAG: tag = Toggels the activation of a tag.
• ONETAG: tag = Set a single tag to have focus.
• TILE: mode = Sets Penta to a tile mode.

Tile

Penta currently supports three different tiling modes.

• 0 = Floating
• 1 = LStack
• 2 = Monocole

RULES

Rules can be applied to windows and effect how windows are tiled. Only one rule is active at a time.

• full = full screen the window
• float = makes the window always floating
• psuedo = applys a psuedo tile mode (float size at tiled pos)

TODO

Important things will be added ASAP.

• Add a manual tiling mode similar to that of herbstluftwm. (IMPORTANT)
• Add manipulation of the list of windows. (IMPORTANT)
• Add the ability to dynamicaly create and destroy tags.
• Add the ability to change the settings on the fly.
• Tinker around with the code to make it more concise and clean.