Active X11 Started 2018

Floating, Stacking ยท Window Manager

progman

progman is a simple X11 window manager modeled after the Windows 3 era.

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Overview

About progman

progman is a simple X11 window manager modeled after the Windows 3 era.

Features

  • Window minimizing, drawing icons and labels on the root/desktop
  • Window maximizing by double-clicking on a window titlebar, and full-screen support (via _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN)
  • Window shading by right-clicking on a window titlebar
  • Window moving by holding down Alt (configurable) and clicking anywhere on a window
  • Built-in keyboard binding support by adding items to the [keyboard] section of ~/.config/progman/progman.ini such as Win+L = exec xlock
  • Built-in mouse button binding on the desktop by adding items to the [desktop] section of ~/.config/progman/progman.ini such as Mouse3 = exec xterm, with right-click setup by default to show a configurable launcher menu containing programs listed in the [launcher] section of progman.ini
  • Virtual desktops with keyboard shortcuts for switching between them bound to Alt+1 through Alt+0 by default, and using the mouse wheel on the desktop to scroll through virtual desktops
  • Window cycling with Alt+Tab and Shift+Alt+Tab
  • Theme support
  • Optional HiDPI scaling support to magnify icons and buttons
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Notable features

Deliberately recreates the Windows 3.x Program Manager era,including beveled decoration and program-group workflow,on a modern X11 desktop.

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