This is xcb port of monsterwm tiling window manager. For more detailed README refer to monsterwm
The code editor in the picture above is Microsoft Visual Code Editor -- not Studio Editor
Open up config.h
and edit to suit your needs.
Build and install.
$ $EDITOR_OF_CHOICE config.h
$ make -j8 # where 8 are CPU cores
# make install
To have mouse cursor, open up .xinitrc and append somewhere before the case label the following xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
The statusline in the picture above is made of https://github.com/su8/doomy . You can use sed to make a named tag/workspace from /tmp/hellxcb.txt , just use cat /tmp/hellxcb.txt | sed -E 's/tag: 1/tag: web/g; s/tag: 2/tag: dev/g; s/tag: 3/tag: misc/g; s/tag: 4/tag: float/g; s/tag 1/web/g; s/tag 2/dev/g; s/tag 3/misc/g; s/tag 4/float/g;' and redirect it /tmp/doomy.txt if you use https://github.com/su8/doomy
To hide/show some windows, you can have drop down terminal:
// config.h
// AppRule rules[] add your terminal and make it floating
{ MOD4, XK_z, hide_show, {NULL}},
// hellxcb.c
static void hide_show(const Arg *arg) {
(void)arg;
static unsigned int show = 0U;
static xcb_window_t curwin;
if (!current) return;
if (show = !show) { curwin = head->win; xcb_unmap_window(dis, curwin); }
else { xcb_map_window(dis, curwin); xcb_move_resize(dis, curwin, 0, 0, 0, 0); }
}The packages needed for example would be
libxcb xcb-util xcb-util-wm xcb-util-keysym gcc make xorg [ pkg-config or pkgconfigor pkgconf ]
The packages in Debian are: libxcb-randr0 libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh libxcb-ewmh2 xorg-dev xserver-xorg-dev libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-icccm4-dev gcc make xorg pkg-config git libxcb-keysyms1 libxcb-keysyms1-dev libxcb-util-wm libxcb-util-dev xcb-util libxcb1-deb libxcb-dev
If on Debian,
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$(CC) -o $(PACKAGE) $(PROG) $(CFLAGS) $(INCS) $(LDFLAGS) , just cut and paste -o $(PACKAGE) $(PROG) right after $(CC)
For FreeBSD the packages are gcc xorg gmake chromium git gawk libxcb xcb-util xcb-util-wm xcb-util-keysyms pkgconf
For NetBSD the packages are clang gmake firefox git gawk xcb xcb-util xcb-util-wm xcb-util-keysyms pkg-config and full desktop with X11 installed on your system.
I have fixed - Cloudef/monsterwm-xcb#8 . When closing pop-up dialogs you must use alt + z to bring the focusing back to normal.
Fill bugs only on hellxcb, when you are sure the bug doesn't occur on monsterwm.
Cloudef for monsterwm-xcb, the suckless team for dwm, moetunes for dminiwm, pyknite for catwm, c00kiemonster for monsterwm