Devlog

• Jwno 0.9.15 Released
  September 17, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #change log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log New command line flag --eval to evaluate Janet code through an REPL connection. New command line flag --execute to call a Jwno command through an REPL connection...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.14 Released
  June 23, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #change log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log BREAKING CHANGE: Rename :jwno-process-elevated? method for window manager to :own-process-elevated? . BREAKING CHANGE: Move :get-pid-path method for window manag...Continue reading

  
• SetWindowRgn Shenanigans
  June 19, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #win32, #experiment

  Recently I did some experiments on cropping a window, to see if I can cleanly fit it into a “viewport” defined by Jwno. Along the way, I found an interesting API function: SetWindowRgn . Warning...Continue reading

  
• Thank You, HN!
  May 22, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #hacker news

  I made a Show HN post about Jwno, and yesterday it surprisingly made it to the front page! I was in bed, posting with my phone, and didn’t even write anything in the text field, but the text from my...Continue reading

  
• A Mouse Grid For Jwno
  May 20, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #warpd, #grid mode, #mouse

  I learned about Warpd in the early days of Jwno, but never used it much. Recently, when the refactoring of the ui-hint code was mostly done, I coincidentally came across it again. I stared at Warpd’...Continue reading

  
• Jwno Is in the Lisp Game Jam
  May 20, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #lisp game jam

  I’ve always wanted to join the List Game Jam ever since the first time I heard of it, but never came up with any good ideas. And my efforts to build something simple before another jam as a practice...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.13 Released
  May 07, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #change log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log BREAKING CHANGE: Refactor :ui-hint command to make it more generic. Please see the documentation for the new interface. New hinter implementations to be used wit...Continue reading

  
• Working With Janet's Threads
  March 31, 2025 byAgent Kilo#Janet, #Jwno, #Threading, #Garbage Collection

  This post is about some internal workings of Janet and Jwno, especially how threads work and communicate. You may as well take it as me mumbling to myself. I try to explain things, but you may still n...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.12 Released
  March 17, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #chang log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log Fix crashes caused by simultaneous :ui-hint commands; More ergonomic ways to access the config file environment in the REPL: Use the global variable jwno/user-co...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.11 Released
  February 20, 2025 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #change log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log Better handling for programs that deny PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION or PROCESS_VM_READ (e.g. password managers); :ui-hint command; jw32/_wingdi module; Handle WM_SE...Continue reading

  
• Scroll Jwno, Scroll!
  January 20, 2025 byAgent Kilo#janet, #tiling, #uiautomation, #window-manager, #windows

  Preface I’ve been lurking around GlazeWM and Komorebi ’s Discord servers for some time, mostly for seeing how others make use of a tiling window manager. In my personal experience, these are reall...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.10 Released
  December 25, 2024 byAgent Kilo

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  #jwno, #chang log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log Fix :frame tag handling in window objects; Fix incorrect window placement when moving windows across monitors with different DPIs; Fix the case where Jwno ignore...Continue reading

  
• Playing With WSLg Windows
  December 19, 2024 byAgent Kilo#tutorial, #janet, #common lisp, #wslg, #window manager

  Jwno And WSLg Windows When it comes to window management, the WSLg windows are quite unique, because they live in both worlds. The cool kids from Microsoft is using a custom Weston compositor to manag...Continue reading

  
• How To Experiment With Your Keymap
  November 26, 2024 byAgent Kilo#tutorial, #cookbook, #jwno, #janet, #window-manager

  Hi there! Today’s topic is about tweaking your keymap, conveniently . It’s a little trick I use when developing Jwno, and I hope it’s useful to you too. If you have coincidentally read the docum...Continue reading

  
• How To Use Jwno With Your Ultrawide Monitors
  November 14, 2024 byAgent Kilo#tutorial, #cookbook, #jwno, #janet, #window-manager

  It feels so empty here, so I decided to share something from Jwno’s Cookbook . Jwno is quite customizable, that it can sometimes be confusing when you want to achieve a certain setup (well, it may b...Continue reading

  
• Jwno 0.9.9 Released
  November 07, 2024 byAgent Kilo#jwno, #chang log, #release

  See the release on Github . Change Log Minor refactoring to window object interface; Reduce excessive retiling; Make handing of minimized windows more consistent; Minor refactoring to activation hooks...Continue reading