Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by pmoriarty » Sat, Dec 13, 2014, 11:17 PM UTC

Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme
github.com

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

#2

Post by q3sniper » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 12:31 AM UTC

Wow this is great.

I have always wanted to create a window manager ever since I read "The X Window System: Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif" years ago but unfortunately never got around to it and never had the motivation to look back. This makes it easy. Thanks!

Edit: If you're going to downvote, explain why.

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by davexunit » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 12:58 AM UTC

Guile-WM is a very neat project and fun to hack on since, like Emacs, you can edit it while it runs. It needs some more love to be usable for me as my daily driver, though. If I could only figure out the cause of a couple of bugs, things would be good enough for me.

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 1:34 AM UTC

I like reading the config file https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-wm/blob/master/wm-init-samp...

a xmonad cousin

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by gexla » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 1:57 AM UTC

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

#6

Post by pmoriarty » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 2:00 AM UTC

gexla wrote: post #5

see also Guix. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ > Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages are built and composed.

I wish this was available for FreeBSD.

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by davexunit » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 2:35 AM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #6

gexla wrote: post #5

see also Guix. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ > Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages are built and composed.

I wish this was available for FreeBSD.

Want to help port it? :)

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by bitwize » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 3:56 AM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #3

Guile-WM is a very neat project and fun to hack on since, like Emacs, you can edit it while it runs. It needs some more love to be usable for me as my daily driver, though. If I could only figure out the cause of a couple of bugs, things would be good enough for me.

It's not the first WM to be based on Guile, even:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scwm

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by bitwize » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 4:45 AM UTC

It's a cool hack, but with X obsolescent is there much long-term use for it?

Re: Guile-WM: A Window Manager Toolkit for Guile Scheme

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Post by signa11 » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 6:33 AM UTC

iirc, sawfish (http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) was there a long time ago, but haven't used it in a while...