Window manager, how to write ?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 20 of June 2008, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Alexei Babich <a.babich at rez.ru> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Is anybody can tell me, where I can read about writing my own window
> > manager ? WM basics, etc...
>
> I would suggest reading the source code to another window manager:
> twm, metacity, fvwm, etc.

 Those are probably too complex for this purpose. I'd suggest one/several of 
the simplistic ones like ratpoison or evilwm as starting points. Also, the 
ICCCM and EWMH docs are a must-read (and, indeed, the Xlib docs).

 That said, you probably don't really want to start writing your own window 
manager from scratch unless you have really specific needs, are really bored 
or are really insane.

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