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Same thing happened for the Emacs EXWM author Chris Feng: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by tetris11 · 2024-02-16 · in Orgzly Revived: a community-maintained version of Orgzly

I hope it's deliberate that the screenshots link goes to creating a new page https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots I suspect full screen Emacs in gnome, while not brilliantly efficient, is close enough to this project that I may…

comment by JonChesterfield · 2024-01-23 · in RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

Using Emacs to write Perl to configure your WM... Why not cut out the middle man, and https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by rollcat · 2024-01-22 · in RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby

There have been some releases since then though [1] and recent commits [2] [1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/releases [2]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/commits/master

comment by dustfinger · 2023-08-01 · in Emacs is my new window manager

The developer has been missing on GitHub since 2020 [1] [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/845

comment by zvmaz · 2023-08-01 · in Emacs is my new window manager

See also EXWM[1] [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by lvncelot · 2023-08-01 · in Emacs is my new window manager

There have been tiling window managers based around Emacs before. I think the most recent I tried was https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm -- in this case the window manager is itself emacs, and your windows are buffers in emacs etc. It makes a…

comment by cmrdporcupine · 2023-07-11 · in Emacs GUI Library

You can! https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by bigfishrunning · 2023-04-20 · in Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

…[3]. Also, please join #emacs on librechat [4]. For IRC on emacs I really love erc-mode [5]. [1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki [2]: https://www.masteringemacs.org/ [3]: https://emacsconf.org/ [4]: https://libera.chat/ [5]:…

comment by dustfinger · 2023-03-03 · in Use GNU Emacs

…when certain commands can render it unresponsive. But it is still well worth it for me. [0] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by celrod · 2023-01-30 · in The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs

You can even use Emacs as a window manager if you are so inclined. https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by Thlom · 2022-10-14 · in Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

…but currently it's all working very well. Sway is excellent. [0] https://stumpwm.github.io/ [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by globular-toast · 2021-09-06 · in Switching to the i3 window manager

…It still needs some more integration but currently is my favorite solution to this problem. [1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by skulk · 2021-01-02 · in TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem

…command nil command))) Edit: There's an example configuration that has this and other bindings: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Configuration-Example

comment by omnicognate · 2020-11-20 · in EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

…what the project is. It's easy enough to find the screenshots page by reading the root page. [1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by unwind · 2020-11-20 · in EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

The issue about Wayland support is interesting reading: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/issues/559

comment by pabs3 · 2020-11-20 · in EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

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story by tosh · 2020-11-20 · 57 comments

…many Emacs users, it's just plain fun -- hence the things shown in this article, and also EXWM. [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by olivierestsage · 2020-11-16 · in Emacs in odd places

Might as well dive all the way in: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by jdormit · 2020-08-22 · in VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment

https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm Chrome in emacs? No problem. Excel on linux on emacs? No problem, just run Excel on Windows on VirtualBox on emacs. (in case you missed it from my first comment, I'm being facetious)

comment by monsieurbanana · 2020-05-25 · in Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

…they will often benefit from having extensions written for them by the surrounding community. [0]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by danShumway · 2020-04-13 · in Malleable Systems: Software must be as easy to change as it is to use it

…is an X window manager written entirely in elisp for GNU Emacs, EXWM, that was started in 2015: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm I have been using it exclusively on my machines for the past three years. By far the best computing environment…

comment by sedachv · 2020-03-01 · in Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)

Or just boot into Emacs - which one can do e.g. via https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by _emacsomancer_ · 2019-06-16 · in I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer

…to set exwm up see Uncle Dave Emacs Tutorial 14 - EXWM aka managing X windows with emacs [2]. [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm [2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk9-q8tXbMs

comment by dustfinger · 2019-06-11 · in Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity

…[5] to interface with slack from emacs irc clients. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rcirc [2] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm [3] https://www.oftc.net/ [4] https://next.atlas.engineer/ [5] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BitlBee

comment by dustfinger · 2019-06-07 · in Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

…that's a spacemacs configuration issue, or something to do with switching from emacs25 to 26. [0] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki

comment by AlexCoventry · 2019-02-10 · in Exwm – Emacs X Window Manager

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story by emidln · 2018-09-18 · 0 comments

I agree, there is no better desktop environment than Emacs: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by sedachv · 2018-06-08 · in Magit 2.13 released

…I've added to my github list. https://github.com/x64dbg/x64dbg https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm https://github.com/DexterLagan/lsh https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks#creative-codin...…

comment by arca_vorago · 2018-04-30 · in Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?

…or a file manager (Emacs comes with dired, which works over TRAMP which is amazing), or a... [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by sedachv · 2018-02-01 · in Why Create a New Unix Shell?

I've been hearing about Emacs X Window Manager but haven't given it a shot yet https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by racer-v · 2018-02-01 · in Why Create a New Unix Shell?

…need a desktop environment. I switched to EXWM[1]; Firefox looks and acts like an Emacs buffer. [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by sedachv · 2018-01-29 · in Data Science at the Command Line

…Emacs, written in Emacs Lisp, and indeed lets you jump between windows using your buffer switcher. https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm In the tiling mode, Emacs buffers and X11 windows map 1:1. It's like having arbitrary X programs inside Emacs.

comment by mbrock · 2017-09-18 · in Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages

…too much twm, Openbox most recently, and a few others I forget, EXWM feels really refreshing. https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

comment by sedachv · 2017-03-20 · in The Antidesktop (2002)

…how you would feel about using EXWM. It's an emacs window manager for X. Screenshots found here: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots

comment by gravypod · 2016-12-03 · in Emacs-jit: Emacs with an Emacs Lisp JIT compiler

Yes: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm ICCCM is but one piece of the multitude of half-baked and extremely-fragmented protocols that make up the modern X11 environment, by the way.

comment by tadfisher · 2016-03-13 · in X11fs: A tool for manipulating X windows

There is EXWM, an X window manager for Emacs: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm Here are some screenshots: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots

comment by rekado · 2016-02-15 · in Why GNU Emacs?

There are screenshots on the wiki: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki

comment by kjhughes · 2015-08-05 · in Emacs X Window Manager

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