Window Maker 0.95.8 released
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Also, I find it really funny when a project has been around for decades, and has been regarded as stable for nearly as long, and still hasn't done a 1.0 release.
You get granular ad-hoc tiling that fits the need you have when you have it.
Thanks for the tip on it!
Holy shit on a shingle... how did I not know about this magic incantation!
With those two features now in Windows (for a while) I could finally drop my autohotkey windowing script.
Always nice to have alternatives - and I'm always dragging stuff around to different windows so it'll be nice to not have to drag, drop and then window key stuff.
For tiling windows, try align_window3 (https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window3 - again, it's for Windows, and use AutoHotKey). It gives you more portrait-friendly options than the Windows default stuff.
If an API, 1.0 means stable. If an application, 1.0 means fully featured (as dictated by the author or community).
Funny memory: I've been a KDE developer for 12 or 13 years. I think one of my first patches ever was a fix for the window manager to restore to correct window geometry when cancelling a partially maximized state using the restore action. A friend of mine was using the above feature to set up tiled text editors and I wanted to fix it for him.
(disclaimer, I am a contributor)
Add a dash of Taekwindow to the mix, and you'll have everything you need:
So it's entirely complementary, and you can customise to your liking.
I use OpenBox and awesomewm together. I can tile if I want, but I also have access to a more traditional approach.
Because of OpenBox's configuration of everything, I can often link the two together to do fun things like, tile all windows equally around my active window, that I can drag and resize as I like.
Incidentally, that behaviour was one of the first things I had to figure out how to turn off in Windows, because I just wanted to move the window there; I did NOT want to resize it. I found it quite annoying.
The NeXTSTEP way in which menus can be triggered by right-clicking is really usable - I only wish it's possible to attach the app menu bar as well. The global menu bar approach of macOS and GNOME can feel a bit ridiculous on large displays.
I personally disagree. It's still highly relevant to be able to "slam" the pointer upward to always land on the menu bar.
RISC OS has the best menus, just click the mouse button anywhere in the window, maximum Fitts score, and you can select menu items and keep the menu open to select more, also select a menu item that has a submenu, and have windows as submenus, for palette selection etc
I have cursor speed set high on all of my machines for this very reason. Easy to slam edges, minimal movement to get back to where you started. It takes a day or so to adjust to being precise with small hand movements, but it was totally worth it, at least for me.
Interesting, screen lock at bottom left. I'm guessing you're not using Windows, or that you open the menu with the Windows key if you do.
One more thing to mourn the loss of with Wayland i guess...
The basic task of Wayland is to facilitate that a program (most commonly a DE compositor/WM) can draw on the screen using the GPU without the programmer having to write OpenGL code.
Window Maker became my favourite window manager around 1997, after trying out the majority of them since I installed Slackware 2.0 for the first time.
I kept on using it until around 2006, when I switched back to Windows as my main desktop.
Back the in day I had a nice collection of mini apples, pity that GNUStep never came to be fully integrated with it.
Nowadays my GNU/Linux VMs run Ubuntu/Unity, I guess I will have to try WM again. :)
I also got very used to the way WM does virtual desktops, though KDE can be configured to behave nearly identical by now.
The Windowlist shows all open windows. You can pin it, then walk through the list if you've lost track of something.
Windows can be pinned to all desktops.
Nothing I've seen in 30 years comes close.
KDE comes close to WindowMaker in functionality (I've been watching/using that occasionally since ~1999), but never quite seems to get it right. KDE's windowlist, for example, isn't pinnable, and if you're walking that, you have to re-open, and re-acquire your current working spot, for each window you're traversing. That extra bit of friction rubs me raw every damned time.
The crazy thing about WindowMaker, for me, is how for such a ... not particulalry beautiful* desktop (though I find its asthetics completely acceptable), it's so damned useful. It's either exceptionally well designed ... or I've just got it cold-welded to my muscle memory. I couldn't honestly tell you which.
(Though I think its design is particularly good, with its design stability a major part of that.)
I actually ignored that for years, until i decided to try it out and found it much easier to work with since i could create many more launchers than if i had to fit everything in the regular dock (of course i could also use drawers - which sadly are not yet supported by the clip - but i think having the launchers per virtual desktop is better).
But by far, my favorite look was Window Maker. I liked the large icons, the blocky menu, and the intriguing dockapps. After I managed to install Linux (that was a hard task for a 16 year-old who couldn't read English), I used Window Maker for a number of years. It was fast, it was functional, and it was really cool! These days I use LXDE with Openbox, but I'm always thrilled to hear about new developments in Window Maker.
On Windows there is LiteStep which is free and fully customizable. Makes Windows more palatable.
"How can I replace Wayland's Window Manager?
The Wayland architecture integrates the display server, window manager and compositor into one process. You can think of Wayland as a toolkit for creating clients and compositors. It is not a specific single compositor or window manager. If you want a different window manager, you can write a new one. A 'libweston' effort is underway in order to allow new environments to reuse Weston's codebase and mechanics, whilst providing their own look and feel."
And here's a list of "alternative" WMs already in progress for Wayland/Weston: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Window_managers...
You couldn't do much to change the title bars et al though.
box-look.org has a few more recent ones.
Thanks.
So fvwm95 will also come with a release?