https://github.com/holusion/windowmanager

A nodejs Window manager based on node-x11
https://github.com/holusion/windowmanager

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A nodejs Window manager based on node-x11

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/holusion/windowmanager
• Owner: Holusion
• Created: 2020-06-02T08:55:34.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-19T08:01:12.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-16T07:20:48.752Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 389 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 3
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  • Readme: README.md

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# WindowManager

Manages display.

Acquire the root window then talks to X11 to manage windows creation/remapping/destruction

Also has the ability to manage child processes via [xdg-apps](https://www.npmjs.com/package/xdg-apps)

A child process is considered "dead" when it's original PID is killed and the created window doesn't exist anymore.

## Dependencies

`fontconfig` is used to provide fonts (but the program should not crash in its absence).

`python` and `build-essential` are required at install time for node-gyp to compile `abstract-socket`.

## Resources

A good example of window manager code is [Openbox](https://github.com/danakj/openbox/blob/master/openbox/) in C.

Otherwise, the [Xlib documentation](https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/) might be of use.

The [ICCM spec](https://x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/ICCCM/icccm.html) provides a lot of implementation details that are loosely followed to various degrees.