Tiling Window Managers

EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

XELB (X protocol Emacs Lisp Binding) is a pure Elisp implementation of X11 protocol based on the XML description files from XCB project.

EXWM is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Fully keyboard-driven operations. EXWM uses the same syntax as Emacs itself to denote key events. Like Emacs, EXWM uses a key sequence (or key for short) rather than a single key event to make a key binding. There’s support for accessing keymaps in char-mode.
  • Hybrid layout modes (tiling & stacking).
  • Dynamic workspace support. They can be created or removed on-the-fly. There are several ways to add/or remove workspaces.
  • Autohide minibuffer & echo area – the minibuffer and echo area (sharing the same mini-window) are fixed at the bottom of each workspace by default.
  • Supports third-party compositing manager. EXWM is a non-reparenting window manager.
  • ICCCM/EWMH compliance.
  • (Optional) RandR (multi-monitor) support. RandR is disabled by default.
  • (Optional) Builtin system tray. The system tray is displayed on active workspace only.
  • (Optional) Builtin input method.
  • exwm-xim module for using Emacs builtin input methods in X windows.
  • Support for ‘managed’ per-application configuration to allow users to specify whether to manage an X window.
  • Support for replacing / being replaced by other window managers. exwm-init and exwm-exit can also be used to manually start/stop EXWM.

Website: github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Support:
Developer: Chris Feng
License: GNU General Public License version 3, or (at your option) any later version

EXWM does not provide a status bar itself.

EXWM is written in the Emacs Lisp programming language. Learn Lisp with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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