Tiling, Floating · Window Manager / Compositor
edwl
Features A bar. Yeah, pritty simple, but it solves most of my tasks. With a status bar, to be able to set text from external application. With a tray, to be able to close some applications. With a color/font configuration via config.h. With actions to move windows on different tags by click. Additional windows features. Hidden windows. You can hide/show a…
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Necrosis Aumer
Necrosis Aumer
Status
Type
Server
Written in
GPU
Overview
About edwl
Features
- A bar. Yeah, pritty simple, but it solves most of my tasks.
- With a status bar, to be able to set text from external application.
- With a tray, to be able to close some applications.
- With a color/font configuration via config.h.
- With actions to move windows on different tags by click.
- Additional windows features.
- Hidden windows. You can hide/show a window by pressing on it's title on bar.
- Windows carousel. Allow to swap montor's zones for windows.
- Gaps.
- Devour.
- A lockscreen.
- Actually hides everything and don't allows to send keyboard/mouse events to applications.
- There was a criticism of standrad lock programs, that they are allows to access an interface to everyone if they crashed. Well, if this one crashes, then everything will be closed. Is this a good or a bad thing - decide for yourself.
- A background.
- You could use PNG and JPEG images only.
- You also could dynamically change them!
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Notable features
Adds a visually customized but still compact experience on top of dwl's suckless-style codebase
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