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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
Old 12-27-2016
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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DH_INSTALLWM(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_INSTALLWM(1)

NAME
dh_installwm - register a window manager SYNOPSIS
dh_installwm [debhelperoptions] [-n] [--priority=n] [wm...] DESCRIPTION
dh_installwm is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating the postinst and prerm commands that register a window manager with update-alternatives(8). The window manager's man page is also registered as a slave symlink (in v6 mode and up), if it is found in usr/share/man/man1/ in the package build directory. FILES
debian/package.wm List window manager programs to register. OPTIONS
--priority=n Set the priority of the window manager. Default is 20, which is too low for most window managers; see the Debian Policy document for instructions on calculating the correct value. -n, --noscripts Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts. Turns this command into a no-op. wm ... Window manager programs to register. NOTES
Note that this command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 9.20120909 2011-09-12 DH_INSTALLWM(1)
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