zachwick / wtftw

Window Tiling For The Win. A tiling window manager written in Rust

wtftw

Window Tiling For The Win. A tiling window manager written in Rust

Status

Build

Notice: Wtftw is compiled against the latest nightlies, so make sure to have your rustc up to date.

To build it, just run

cargo build

Testing

First, export the ./target/release/deps path to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, this is important!. Then, if you want to have your own custom config, create one in ~/.wtftw/config.rs. You can find an example config in config/config.rs in this repository.

For testing, install either Xnest or Xephyr on your system and run

Xephyr -screen 800x600 :1 &
DISPLAY=:1 ./target/release/wtftw &
DISPLAY=:1 thunar & (or whatever application you want to run)

or respectively

Xnest -geometry 800x600+0+0 :1 &
DISPLAY=:1 ./target/release/wtftw &
DISPLAY=:1 thunar &

Installation

Compile it normally with cargo build --release, and then either use it with your .xinitrc or your favorite display manager. If you want to configure it, take a look at the example config in config/.

After the first start, the config needs to be placed in ~/.wtftw/src/config.rs. Voila.

Commands

In a default setting, the commands are hardcoded, but can be changed in your own config.

Switch workspace

ALT+num

Open terminal

ALT+SHIFT+Enter

Run program

ALT+SHIFT+p

You'll need to install gmrun for this

Tutorial

I will be making a tutorial series on how to write a window manager. A bit busy with my thesis at the moment, but the first part is here