Re: [dev] wmpus - a new cross platform wm

From: Yue Wu <vanopen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:02:12 +0800

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 07:23:25AM +0000, Andy Spencer wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I would like to point out a project I've started on for *yet another*
> new window manager, called `wmpus' [1]. It's not actually a suckless
> project, but I thought some folks here might be interested nonetheless.
>
> The biggest feature is that it should be portable and work well with
> different windowing systems. Besides that, it should support a variety
> of window management modes, be easy to hack, and lay golden eggs.
>
> Until now, I've been focusing on getting it to actually manage windows,
> so many features are completely missing: There's currently no support
> for settings or configuration files, no statusbar, very minimal window
> decorations, lots of memory leaks, no `make install' rule, etc.
>
> That being said, here's what does work:
>
> - Runs natively on X11 and MS Windows
>
> - Tiling window management similar to acme or wmii. That is, rows,
> columns, split/stack/max modes, multi-monitor support, limited
> support for tags
>
> - Support for some external statusbars such as dzen [2]
>
> Any feedback will be appreciated. It should be easy enough to build for
> X11 and there's a windows binary linked from the wiki for anyone brave
> enough to try it out.
>

No any doc about how to use it...

And I feel some slow down when moving the window on windows 2000.

-- 
Regards,
Yue Wu
Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University(中國藥科大學)
No.24, Tongjia Xiang Street, Nanjing 210009, China
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