TinyWM is written by Nick Welch <nick@incise.org> in 2005 & 2011.
This software is in the public domain and is provided AS IS, with NO WARRANTY.
TinyWM is a ridiculously tiny window manager implemented in nearly as few lines
of C as possible, without being obfuscated or entirely useless. It allows you
to move, resize, focus (sloppy), and raise windows -- that's it! TinyWM's main
purpose is to serve as a quick example of some window manager programming
basics.
Files:
Makefile: highly advanced build system
tinywm.c: the code
annotated.c: same, but with tons of rambling comments about everything
tinywm.py: a python version (requires CVS python-xlib due to a bug)
Usage:
Focus follows pointer.
Alt+Button1, drag: interactive window move
Alt+Button3, drag: interactive window resize
Alt+F1: raise focused window
Misc:
Another very small window manager is failsafewm. Originally I started
hacking on it, as there was quite a bit of stuff in it that I thought was
unneeded. I wound up rewriting it from scratch, with just the bare
necessities, and that became TinyWM.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/failsafewm/
Yet another small -- but in comparison to TinyWM, big -- window manager is
aewm. It's a good example for learning about writing a window manager.
http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/aewm/