Awesome

tiles

A pure js xorg window manager, that I wrote on the plane.

screenshot

Usage - development

install Xephyr to run another display inside your current window manager.

then start everything with the DISPLAY envar set, so it will run in the correct display.

Xephyr -br :1 &
DISPLAY=:1 xterm &
DISPLAY=:1 node tiles.js

Usage - production

first, install globally npm install -g tiles

my ~/.xinit looks like this:

setxkbmap -layout dvorak
export TERM='xterm -fn=7x13 -rv'
exec node /home/dominic/c/tiles/tiles.js > tiles.log

On my setup, I login on a bare terminal, and then start my window manager with startx. If you use ubuntu or something with a shishi login screen you can add the following to /usr/share/xsessions

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=tiles
Comment=This session starts tiles
Exec=/PATH/TO/tiles.js
Type=Application

(that is what nwm suggests, so that will probably work)

Configuration

tiles uses rc to manage it's configuration. see ./config.js for default settings. Currently only animation time and framerate are configurable. TODO: keyboard commands.

Acknowledgements

This was easy becase of x11, and what I had learnt hacking on nwm I would also never have done this if gb and eb hadn't helped me install archlinux (and escape OSX)

TODO

focus window on mouseover (currently chrome breaks this)
multiple workspaces
keyboard shortcuts
refactor out xorg.js once I get more familiar with it.

License

MIT