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The tiniest window manager.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2020-12-16 · latest 2025-07-24

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  1. This one lets you move windows around: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c
    comment by vidarh · 2025-07-24 · in Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager
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    TinyWM – The tiniest (X11) window manager
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2025-06-06 · 0 comments
  3. Sure! https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm I've run it once a long time ago and worked perfectly fine for me.
    comment by spicybright · 2025-05-27
  4. …every new window manager. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager#List_of_wind... [2]: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm
    comment by Levitating · 2024-05-06 · in TheDesk desktop environment
  5. …care about running an independent window manager. A minimal X window manager is a page of code: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c (yes, plus xlib); a minimal Wayland compositor is tens of thousands of lines of code.…
    comment by eadmund · 2024-03-07 · in Fedora Workstation 41 to No Longer Install Gnome X.org Session by Default
  6. …of not having the functionality and it "mostly works" as expected even though it's stupid. [1] https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c [2] https://gist.github.com/vidarh/1cdbfcdf3cfd8d25a247243963e55...
    comment by vidarh · 2024-01-22 · in RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby
  7. …one to look into since there are so many resources starting from really small implementations: - https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm - https://github.com/venam/2bwm - https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm - https://github.com/dcat/swm -…
    comment by liveprogramming · 2021-11-03 · in How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)
  8. …and provide a better tool to manage windows on a screen. [0]: https://github.com/mcpcpc/xwm [1]: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm [2]: https://github.com/i3/i3 [3]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
    comment by pqb · 2020-12-16 · in I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager