wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker.
Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Compositor for windows in stacking mode.
- Supports multiple workspaces.
- Appearance inspired by Window Maker, following the look and feel of NeXTSTEP.
- Easy to use, lightweight, low gimmicks and fast.
- Dock and clip, to be extended for dockable apps.
- Configurable layout and scaling for the output.
- Hot corners with configurable actions, default to ‘lock’ or ‘inhibit’ locking.
- Protocols supported:
- xdg-decoration-unstable-v1.
- ext_session_lock_v1.
- wlr_layer_shell_unstable_v1.
- xdg_shell.
- idle_inhibit_unstable_v1.
Website: github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker
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Developer: Philipp Kaeser
License: Apache License 2.0
wlmaker is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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