Simple Dynamic Tiling WM using XCB

Question

I came to the party late with catwm but I liked it's simplicity so I kept using it, fixing a couple of bugs that crashed the wm and generally adding options to config it how I like. There was talk in the catwm thread about porting it to XCB but it seemed to fizzle out so after I was comfortable enough with the code I gave it a shot
   Keyboard support in xcb isn't so great at this stage so the keyboard shortcuts use the numbers for the keys instead of the keysyms, apart from that it is just your average minimal dynamic tiling window manager but a little bit quicker everywhere on average. It's early in its' life so there are a couple of anomalies which I'm sure I'll iron out in time.
   Here's a pic :
   If you want to try a light window manager using xcb you can get it from github
   Comments, suggestions and/or questions are always welcome
Last edited by moetunes (2011-08-28 02:32:48)

Answer 1

I have run this on two comps without an issue but the third gave me a little grief...
The reason I use numerical values for the keyboard modifiers is that XCB_MOD_MASK_1 doesn't map to the alt key here(took me ages to figure that out!) < important
To run this on the third comp which I haven't used in six months I did:
pacman -Ss xcb
there is four entries I had the first three already installed but don't recall doing anything xcb related on this comp so (?)
mkdir -v build/luckywm && cd build/luckywm
git init
git pull git://github.com/moetunes/Be_Lucky_Window_Manager
edit the bluckywm.c file to uncomment the first run line in grabkeys() (around about line 550) and uncomment the fprintf line in keypress()
copy the config.def.h file to config.h
and out of habit I ran
make clean && make
then I edited .xinitrc so the exec line pointed to the binary I just made.
changed to tty2 and ran
startx -- :1
With the wm up and running I pressed
Alt + h
Super + h
Shift + Alt + h
Ctrl + Alt + h
then switched to tty2 to get the numerical values for the modifiers and then killed the wm, switched to tty7 and edited the config.h file to suit and recommented the first run line in grabkeys() so the apps I open get keyboard focus and rebuilt the wm. All works fine now. Let me know if anyone has issues. Eventually I'll get keysyms working in this.
Cheers to mhertz for giving it a shot
edit : updated the method for the first run
Last edited by moetunes (2011-08-29 00:21:56)