Building a Tiling Window Manager with Rust and Penrose

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i3

There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to Build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.

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Polybar

We could use something like polybar to build a powerful and sophisticated top-bar for our system. However, for this example we are going to use the built-in dwm_bar which mimics the bar that can be found in dwm. What's happening here is pretty straight-forward. First we populate the styling struct, and then we plug these values into the dwm_bar.

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dwm

There are many existing tiling-window managers with i3 probably being the most popular choice for linux systems. These window managers can depend on extensive configuration files or in the case of dwm, git patching or C programming. Penrose takes a different approach in that Penrose is not a window manager. Penrose is a high-level rust library that you use to Build your own window manager. This gives us many options for customization while also giving us all the advantages that come with writing rust code.

#Linux #Window Manager #Utilities 63 social mentions