yogawm - the flexible window manager (library)

Yoga is a felxible library for creating x window managers. You can think of it a little bit like XMonad - altough it's a little less coupled to specific ideas. The goal is to take as much complexity as possible away while offering a full-featured framework for programming your "own" wm. Another important goal is to have a really easy to understand documentation which makes things alot more clear to users.

Yoga has no configuration file, like most other wm's. You write a standalone program which just uses the interfaces and ideas yoga offers you. yoga tries to be as declarative as possible. This way might be a little harder to get started with, but it has also some great benefits:

• You pull in only the features you need.
• You handle window events by yourself.
• You build what you want.

Quickstart

Not possible right now. This lib is pre-alpha. Currently the primary development goal is to fully implement and test libx11 to have a good starting point for designing the internals of yoga.

Development Roadmap

This is a very very rough overview of the next steps for this library. Things might change, get removed or new stuff gets added along the way.

libx11

• Establish a connection to X11
• Retrieve data about screens
• Retrieve data about windows
• Implement a high level interface for working with windows (kill, spawn, move..)
• Provide a solid event system
• Provide io interfaces (keyboard/mice)
• Provide highlevel drawing interfaces

yoga

• Provide abstractions over libx11
• Focus on window manager tasks (event handling, workspaces, layouts)
• Provide traits to implement own Layouts
• Handle internal event loop and interaction with libx (only pass events to client)
• Have an easy to use API

Contributing

I'd love to get PR's or accept people as contributors. I'll write a rough technical overview in the next time to make it easier to get into writing code for this project.