Programming window manager

Fulgurance · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 545

Hello, i have question, do you know how is it possible to program simple window manager who interact with graphical application, for example with Firefox ?

I would like to code that in C. Simple examples or tutorials existing ? Have you got example ?

russK · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 609

Maybe libwnck: https://developer.gnome.org/libwnck/3.24/getting-started.html

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:47 am Post subject:

https://seasonofcode.com/posts/how-x-window-managers-work-and-how-to-write-one-part-i.html
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pun_guin · Apprentice Joined: 06 Feb 2018 Posts: 182

Note that Wayland - unless you aim at emulating X11 via XWayland - has a completely different understanding of how a window manager needs to be done. Those are entirely different.
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