plwm is a highly customizable X11 dynamic tiling window manager written in Prolog.
It focuses on high code and documentation quality, powerful customization, common tiling window manager features, and staying small and easy to hack on.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
- Written in Prolog and powered by SWI-Prolog.
- Declarative configuration with Prolog source files.
- Includes monocle, stack, grid, master-stack, nrows, and ncols layouts.
- Supports floating windows with mouse move and resize.
- External bar support including polybar and lemonbar.
- Multi-monitor support.
- Dynamic workspace creation, renaming, reindexing, and deletion.
- Inner and outer gaps.
- Rules, hooks, animations, menus, and command FIFO.
- dmenu and rofi integration.
- Lightweight resource usage.
Website: github.com/Seeker04/plwm
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Developer: Barnabás Zahorán
License: MIT License
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