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Top Forums Programming Requesting general advice about window manager development Post 302988538 by wisecracker on Tuesday 27th of December 2016 04:06:25 PM

12-27-2016

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Hi SirSalt...

It might be worthwhile looking at:-

The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix

A plethora of WMs to guide you along, with source code for many of them.

(Surprisingly even the AMIGA catered for.)

It could be _virtually_ any popular language that they could be written in.

Enjoy the choice...

I admire you for wanting to take the plunge but beware of library updates, OS changes, kernel updates and more as they will hit your development sooner or later. These things break your code and you will have to go back chasing workarounds or rewrites to allow for them. I won't bore you with OSX and Quicktime Player but it has hit me several times on my project.
What should be a smooth development can be a rough ride, but hold in there and don't give in to application fatigue. See your project through to your end goal and beyond if that is what you want.

Good luck...

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openbox

OPENBOX(1)						       Openbox documentation							OPENBOX(1)

NAME

       Openbox - standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager.

SYNOPSIS

       openbox [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage.  This is because the approach to its development was the
       opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly.
       Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.

       Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in
       the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.

       Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been
       based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.

OPTIONS

       --sm-disable
	    Disable connection to session manager.

       --sm-client-id <ID>
	    Specify session management ID.

       --sm-save-file <FILE>
	    Specify file to load a saved session from.

       --replace
	    Replace the currently running window manager.

       --help
	    Display some help and exit.

       --version
	    Display the version and exit.

       --sync
	    Run in synchronous mode (this is slow and meant for debugging X routines).

       --debug
	    Display debugging output.

AUTHORS

       Openbox was written by Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft@comhem.se> and Ben Jansens <ben@openbox.org>, aided by several contributors; for a full
       list read the file AUTHORS.

       This manual page was written by Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

       On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

3.5.0								    2013-03-27								OPENBOX(1)