LowMen

LowMen is a binary space partitioning, tiling window manager for X written in C. The project is still in its early stages.

Architecture

Workspace is a single desktop, which has its own binary space partitioning tree and manages its own windows. Every time a new window is created, it is inserted into its workspaces binary space partitioning tree. The tree than calculates its size and position and generates a bunch of window manager events, which are then promptly pushed, into the window managers event queue. These events are than handeled, calling the appropriate xcb functions.

Building

Building from source

$ make
$ make install PREFIX=/usr/share

Building with Nix

$ nix build .#

Dependencies

• libxcb
• xcbutil
• xcbutil-keysyms
• xcbutil-wm
• glibc
• gcc/clang