Active Wayland Started 2021

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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Paradigm
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Overview

About edwl

Features

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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