RWM – R Window Manager RWM is a QT Desktop Environment / Window Wanager. – The main goal is to develop an interface really simple, fast and beautiful. – Follow the K.I.S.S principle; – Configurations are stored in $home/user/.rwm/ in xml files (simple and human readable); – It should depend only on Qt libs; – Default style is Oxygen, but others can be selected from qtconfig. It is based on Antico (you can find the original here: http://www.antico.netsons.org/index.html). *********** FEATURES *********** The whole application is based on "rwm.cfg" file. Menu applications can be added and removed from "Manager" panel. Frame border dimension, color, pixmap, desk wallpaper managed from "Manager" panel. The style is selected from Manager and save in a xxx.stl file: if you want to share your personal style, save the directory and send it ... General style (Oxygen, Plastique ..), fonts family and size, window background etc. can be selected from "qtconfig". Add links to filesystem directory/file/application with right mouse button (double click to open the link and right mouse button to delete it). Dockicon added to Dockbar deleted with right mouse button or added to System Tray. Category apps menu on Launcher/Dockbar. See "git commits" on repository ... *********** REPOSITORY *********** http://gitorious.org/rwm/ *********** DOWNLOAD *********** - on first installation: "git clone git://gitorious.org/rwm/rwm.git" - to update your local repository: "git pull" ************* INSTALLATION ************* cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr make make install ************ DEVELOPMENT ************ To test the window manager, type on shell: DISPLAY=:0 Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600 & DISPLAY=:1; $HOME/windowManager/rwm-project/rwm If there is some problem with your keyboard layout, just use the line above: Xephyr :1 -ac -screen 800x600 -keybd ephyr,,xkbrules=evdev,xkblayout=br,xkbmodel=abnt2 & DISPLAY=:1; $HOME/windowManager/rwm-project/rwm (where 800x600 is your preferred screen size and $HOME if you have download Antico in user home) *********** STYLE *********** Use "qtconfig" to select your preferred style (Oxygen, Plastique), fonts, effects, etc. *********** ENVIRONMENT PATHS *********** Cause there isn't a respected standard in distro world :-(, the .desktop file is searched in /usr/share and the Trash in $HOME/.local/share