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Hopefully one day it will be a minimalistic window manager.\n\nIt contains just experiments on xlib development. \n\nActually you can find experiments on:\n\n1. Basic event handling\n2. Basic keyboard handling\n3. Window creation\n4. Setting color background\n5. Showing Text\n6. Setting root window background image\n7. Decorating window.\n\nDependencies\n------------\nIn order to compile this program, you need the following packages installed:\n\n* libx11-dev\n* libimlib2-dev\n\nTo run correctly it also needs the following program installed:\n\n* xterm\n\n(since it is the only program launched by this useless window manager)\n\nIf you want to use Xephyr to test the window manager you need the package: \n\n* xserver-xephyr (ubuntu) \n\ninstalled.\n\nCompile and launch\n------------------\n\n```console\n    cd src\n    make\n```\n\nYou'll find a release-TAG folder with the binary inside \\\nAnd then you can launch it in two different ways:\n\n### Using Xephyr\n\nThe first is using xephyr,  a tool that launch a X server instance in a window. After installing it (check your distro documentation) type\n\n```console\n    Xephyr -screen 1024x768 -br :1\n```\n\nWhere -screen XxY is the desired resolution. And then you can launch the Window Manager with the following command:\n\n```console\n    DISPLAY=:1 ./uwm [ background ]\n```\n\nThis method is very useful if you want to debug the window manager.\n\n### Launching Full screen\n\nThe second method is just launching a new server instance, using the following command:\n\n```console\n    xinit ./uwm [ background ] -- :1\n```\n\nand then you can move between X instances using Ctrl + Alt + Fx\n\n[ background ] is optional, and it specifies the background image. If you don't specify it, a default color will be used.\n\n(Using that command a new X instance will be launched, and you don't need to close the running server)\n\nTested image formats:\n\n* jpg\n\nPlease notice that the background argument is optional. \n\nUsage instruction\n-----------------\nThere are very few thing that you can do using this useless window manager, here a list of what you can do:\n\n* Press 1 to launch xterm (and with xterm you can launch other programs)\n* To close a program just right click on program window decoration.\n\nMake sure to have a 30x30 default.bmp file in the main project folder (if you downloaded from github there should be one).\nAlso make sure that this line in src/definitions.h is up to date with the correct path of the icons: \n\n```C\n#define ICONS_BASE_PATH \"../../\"\n```\n\n\nTODO\n----\n\n* Basic configuration handling (background color/image and default terminal)\n* Scale background image\n* Finish work on text drawing functions\n* Add better argument parsing.\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["Packages"],"sub_categories":["window-managers"],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdreamos82%2Fuwm","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fdreamos82%2Fuwm","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fdreamos82%2Fuwm/lists"}