What is the tiniest Window Manager in existence for Linux?

[Irihapeti]

Musca might be interesting to you. Not the smallest, but very small all the same.

http://aerosuidae.net/musca

Umm... Link gives 400 Bad Request.

[m.rankovic]

http://aerosuidae.net/musca/

[cdwillis]

My first thought was twm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm), but TinyWM sounds like it has twm beat.

[3rdalbum]

I had this idea a while ago. Give Wine more resources by running Openbox instead of Gnome.

Result: I discovered that, for some reason, some Wine programs don't work properly outside Gnome. This interested me but I never got a chance to play around and work it out.

[RabbitWho]

TinyWM. It's only 50 lines of code or something like that.

Edit: Here's the code:

/* TinyWM is written by Nick Welch <mack@incise.org>, 2005.
 *
 * This software is in the public domain
 * and is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY. */

#include <X11/Xlib.h>

#define MAX(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))

int main()
{
    Display * dpy;
    Window root;
    XWindowAttributes attr;
    XButtonEvent start;
    XEvent ev;

    if(!(dpy = XOpenDisplay(0x0))) return 1;

    root = DefaultRootWindow(dpy);

    XGrabKey(dpy, XKeysymToKeycode(dpy, XStringToKeysym("F1")), Mod1Mask, root,
            True, GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync);
    XGrabButton(dpy, 1, Mod1Mask, root, True, ButtonPressMask, GrabModeAsync,
            GrabModeAsync, None, None);
    XGrabButton(dpy, 3, Mod1Mask, root, True, ButtonPressMask, GrabModeAsync,
            GrabModeAsync, None, None);

    for(;;)
    {
        XNextEvent(dpy, &ev);
        if(ev.type == KeyPress && ev.xkey.subwindow != None)
            XRaiseWindow(dpy, ev.xkey.subwindow);
        else if(ev.type == ButtonPress && ev.xbutton.subwindow != None)
        {
            XGrabPointer(dpy, ev.xbutton.subwindow, True,
                    PointerMotionMask|ButtonReleaseMask, GrabModeAsync,
                    GrabModeAsync, None, None, CurrentTime);
            XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, ev.xbutton.subwindow, &attr);
            start = ev.xbutton;
        }
        else if(ev.type == MotionNotify)
        {
            int xdiff, ydiff;
            while(XCheckTypedEvent(dpy, MotionNotify, &ev));
            xdiff = ev.xbutton.x_root - start.x_root;
            ydiff = ev.xbutton.y_root - start.y_root;
            XMoveResizeWindow(dpy, ev.xmotion.window,
                attr.x + (start.button==1 ? xdiff : 0),
                attr.y + (start.button==1 ? ydiff : 0),
                MAX(1, attr.width + (start.button==3 ? xdiff : 0)),
                MAX(1, attr.height + (start.button==3 ? ydiff : 0)));
        }
        else if(ev.type == ButtonRelease)
            XUngrabPointer(dpy, CurrentTime);
    }
}

That's so adorable! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Tibuda]

open a xterm session from GDM/KDM and start your apps from there without WM.

you need to run a network daemon (wicd-client or nm-applet) before launching an app that uses the internet.

[hoppipolla]

That's so adorable! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

hahaha

open a xterm session from GDM/KDM and start your apps from there without WM.

you need to run a network daemon (wicd-client or nm-applet) before launching an app that uses the internet.

oo that's VERY smart I never thought of this kinda because I didn't know it was possible! Nice one I'll try this too

[RiceMonster]

The thing about running with no WM though, is that you can't move or resize windows. Still fun to try, none the less.

[Tibuda]

The thing about running with no WM though, is that you can't move or resize windows. Still fun to try, none the less.

True, but this don't matter when you are playing a full-screen game, which is why hoppipolla wants a light WM.

[darkksyde]

TinyWM i believe