Looks awesome, I love Ruby!! For even more ruby you could swap bspwm with subtle, whose config file is written in ruby :) (subtle itself isn’t though sadly)
It might just tempt me to ditch bspwm, or at least experiment. I use little enough of bspwm capabilities, so it might be feasible. I have also lightly toyed with the idea of writing my own, as since I don’t use menu bars etc. even on my floating screen (the “menu bars” in my desktop manager are just client rendered titles) I really need very few capabilities. Basically pretty much just a placement function similar-ish to bspwm, and the ability to move and resize and float windows.
On the other hand, a truly minimalist WM is <100 lines, so I might consider writing one from scratch too (I’d need to update the Ruby X11 binding to handle StructureNotify events and add a few more calls, but that’s pretty trivial). Though at this point we’re quickly approaching zealotry :) It would be fun, though. Maybe when I’m done replacing the terminal fully…
A ruby-written window manager would be too cool, I’d check it out! Although unfortunately I’ve switched to Wayland months ago and I know Wayland is a lot harder to write for… ah well :)
Heh, yeah, that’s part of what’s currently keeping me on X. I use little more than a bunch of shells and Chrome, so there’s not many incentives for me to switch. All of my Ruby X tools are very light on the X11 API use, so they’ll eventually be fairly simple to migrate over, but the window manager vs. compositor situation is frustrating.
I’m somewhat tempted to hack together some FrankenCompositor based on wlroots that implements the bare minimum of the X11 protocol to allow an X11 window manager to to manage the windows. The X11 protocol itself is simple, and while making every WM run would be a ton of work, if you first have a Wayland compositor making it possible to run simpler WMs wouldn’t actually necessarily be so bad. Not likely to happen anytime soon, though, it’s not exactly necessary and I’m not that much of a masochist :)
A somewhat more sane variant might be FFI bindings for wlroots so it’s possible to use it to build a compositor, but that too seems an awful lot more work than an X window manager.
Very true! Well hey those are still some great ideas - would be really nice to see something like that exist for sure. Keep us updated on the project! Always love seeing new ruby stuff
A little posturing and attempts at dominance by the young one, but the slow walk away is the ultimate in cat insults. Reggie’s body language basically saying “if I deposited you in a litter box, it wouldn’t be worth the effort to cover you.”
The foxes here are so well fed and chill most of the time that the cats have lost almost respect for them… They’re still a bit cautious (which is good, because there certainly are incidents of foxes killing cats) but overall it’s pretty peaceful.
Especially when it’s hot and nobody wants to run around.
Not everything is on Github yet, and much of it is messy and with dependencies on my environment (in the process of cleaning that up), but if you click through the “cross-posted to:” link there are a bunch of links to repo’s of what I have pushed so far.
Thanks. I’m in no rush, but yeah, it’s all very small. They depend pretty much on a handful of X calls at the moment, and aiming to isolate that in a couple of very small classes, so should be very simple. Hoping to clean it up and push more of these to github soon.
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