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Does anyone know of an article, or tutorial concerning the development of a window manager ?

I would like to create my own window manager, and maybe even a small lightweight widget set, but I haven't been able to find any texts containing the theory behind the creation of a new window manager.
(And to be honest, I'm too lazy to read gazillions of lines of code and figure it out by myself )

so, you are both motivated and lazy?

if you think WM code numbers in the gazillions of lines, what fraction of a gazillion might you expect your light weight WM to be?

and, of course, you have googled "linux OR UNIX window managers"?

I just thought it might be an interesting little side project. I'm not looking to build anything fancy.

I did google for window managers, but all I get is stuff like:
"How to change your default window manager" and
"1001 window managers for use with X11"

Anyway, I just thought that maybe someone here could shed some light on the subject.

I would suggest getting the source code from a lightweight manager, maybe ratpoison. Take a look at that and see how it's done.

"I did google for window managers,"

apparently, not hard enough. I added "lightweight".. and responses included:

' Linux Times.Net takes a look at some of the lighter weight window managers. "One of the most popular window managers is the very simple ...'
and
"Welcome to my guide to window managers and desktop environments for The X Window System, as used mainly by Linux and UNIX operating systems..."

I did not realize how many WM's are available for *nix. thanks for the post.

If I were inclined to reinvent the wheel, I would study up on the existing, browse the code (undoubtedly available) and start hacking.

Most likely, I would download a few of them and probably end up using one.

BTW, are you experienced in X windows development? What toolkit?