monsterwm

tiny and monsterous!

This is a branch off of moetunes dminiwm, which in turn was based on catwm by pyknite. Credits and licensing included in monsterwm.c and/or config.def.h. For screenshots and ramblings/updates check the topic on ArchLinux forums.

Summary

monsterwm is a very minimal, lightweight, monsterous, tiny, dynamic tiling window manager. It will try to stay as small as possible. Currently under 700 lines with the config file included. It's like dwm with gridlayout, bstack, pertag, dwmreturn patches builtin, but without floating mode.

Modes

It allows the "normal" method of tiling window managers (with the new window as the master) and with the new window opened at the bottom of the stack (like dwm's attach_aside)

Common tiling mode:

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|        | W |
|        |___|
| Master |   |
|        |___|
|        |   |
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Bottom Stack (bstack) tiling mode:

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|           |
|  Master   |
|-----------|
| W |   |   |
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Grid tiling mode:

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|   |   |   |
|---|---|---|
|   |   |   |
|---|---|---|
|   |   |   |
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Monocle mode (aka fullscreen)

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|           |
|           |
|           |
|           |
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All accessible with keyboard shortcuts defined in the config.h file.

The window W at the top of the stack can be resized on a per desktop basis.
Changing a tiling mode or window size on one desktop doesn't affect the other desktops.

One can also define an empty space on the bottom or top of the screen, to be used by a panel. The panel is toggleable, but will be visible if no windows are on the screen.

Installation

You need Xlib, then, copy the config.def.h file as config.h and edit to suit your needs. Build and install.

$ cp config.def.h config.h
$ $EDITOR config.h
$ make
# make clean install

Bugs