patrislav / marwind

A simple X11 tiling window manager

Marwind WM

Marwind is a simple X11 tiling window manager written in Go. It was inspired by the i3 window manager and the acme editor for Plan 9 and aims to combine the good parts of both for the best experience.

Important! The project is under active development and is not stable. Use at your own risk.

Goals

• Sane defaults. It should be possible to install the WM and be immediately productive without spending hours on configuration
• Keyboard-driven without sacrificing the mouse. Marwind is focused on the keyboard not unlike most tiling managers, however mouse also has its place. Common actions - such as moving, resizing, or closing windows - should be possible using either of the input methods
• Dynamically reconfigurable. Provide standard HTTP / gRPC endpoints for on-the-fly configuration, without the need to reload the entire WM. These endpoints will also serve as points of communication with external applications.
• Clean code and documentation

Limitations

This is a list of features that are planned but still missing in the software:

• There are no tests and no documentation yet
• No window decorations (e.g. title bars)
• No multi-monitor support
• No mouse support
• No floating windows
• No configuration available

Installation

From source

With Go environment set up and the repository cloned, it's enough to run:

make

The compiled binaries will be located in the bin directory. The window manager can be started using:

./bin/marwm