An X Window Manager built on web technologies, including Electron and React.

To do prerequisite build steps:

npm run build

To start a test X server (requires Xephyr):

npm run startx

To start the window manager:

npm run start

The window manager is stable enough for basic daily usage.

At this time, there is no distributed release. To try out the window manager, check out this repository, built it, and invoke electron against the repository root directory.

Command line flags:
  --console-logging  Enable console log output        [boolean] [default: false]
  --file-logging     Enable logging output to a file
  --help

For example, you may want to create an .xinitrc and run something like the following at the end:

exec /path/to/electron-wm-checkout/.bin/electron /path/to/electron-wm-checkout

Make sure to run npm run build before attempting to use the window manager from the source checkout.

A basic config file is read from the following locations:

• app-path/.ewmrc.js
  • The file distributed with the application.
• $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/electron-wm-config/.ewmrc.js
  • Typically $HOME/.config/electron-wm-config/.ewmrc.js

See the .ewmrc.js example included in this repository.

Possible locations are probed in the order listed above. If config files are found in each location, the values set by later config files override those from prior config files.

The following shortcuts are supported:

(Mod4 is typically the Windows key.)

Shortcuts are currently hard-coded in the wm.ts.

MIT License