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Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby


An X11 window manager in pure Ruby. Contribute to vidarh/rubywm development by creating an account on GitHub.

It started with mild frustration that bspwm handled my desire for one of my virtual desktops to have floating windows by default poorly. To the extent our goals are not compatible, I'm happy to e.g. split out generic/reusable functionality so people can fork this and we can still benefit from sharing the bits where we do agree how things should be. sxhkd or similar is needed to handle input, as this WM does not listen to keybindings other than grabbing windows+ left/right mouse button for move and resize.

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