Last Updated on January 26, 2024
newm is a Wayland compositor written with laptops and touchpads in mind.
The idea is, instead of placing windows inside the small viewport (that is, the monitor) to arrange them along an arbitrarily large two-dimensional wall (generally without windows overlapping) and focus the compositors job on moving around along this wall efficiently and providing ways to the user to rearrange the wall such that they find the overall layout intuitive.
This is free and open source software. It is not currently maintained.
Website: github.com/jbuchermn/newm
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Developer: Iliya Bozhinov
License: MIT License
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