Re: Window manager for GNUStep

[David Chisnall]

On 18 Feb 2014, at 22:06, Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es> wrote:

> On 2014-02-18 13:31:00 -0600 carlos antonio neira bustos 
> <cneirabustos@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm trying to build a gnustep desktop, window maker is the only window
>> manager that is recommended to use, I also read about a window manager
>> called backbone but I'dont know if that is still in active development.
>> Which are the main tasks to code to make a window manager aware of gnustep
>> applications ?.
>> 
> 
> What think about use Guile-WM?
> 
> http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html
> 
> I've been thinking that this is a good basis to make a window manager for 
> GNUstep.

If you're interested, the Services/Private/ProjectManager directory in the 
Étoilé repo has the start of an XCB-based window manager that I was working on. 
 I got sidetracked by other projects in the meantime.  Christopher Armstrong 
did some code cleanups.  More patches would be welcome.

It contains a fairly lightweight set of XCB wrappers (in the XCBKit 
subdirectory) and then some higher-level code that uses them. It does 
compositing and window movement, but very little else.  It intentionally 
doesn't do window decoration, as the intention was to delegate a lot of this to 
the menu server, so windows would have resize handles when they are active 
(just as objects in a typical DTP-style UI do), but not at other times and the 
window title and close/minimise/zoom buttons would be provided in the menu bar. 
 

David




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