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Building a Window Manager

Asked 2009-11-28T02:11:08.293
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One of my new home projects will be a simple Window Manager, but before start I need to know some things:

  • Which is the best language to do this?
  • Where to get some resources to learn?
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  • Which is the best language to do this?

    Whichever you are most comfortable with. There are lots of examples of successful window managers in many different languages out there. Qtile and xmonad are good examples, written in Python and Haskell respectively.

  • Where to get some resources to learn?

    I would go look at some of the existing window managers. There are lots of them, so at least some of them has to have readable code. Here is the Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix.

answered 2009-11-28T02:23:42.637

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