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Managing window without a window manager

A dead simple tool to managing windows from thetty, written in shell script.

• Novirtual desktops.
• Nowindow decorations.
• Nowidgets.
• Nohotkeys.
• Nowallpaper.
• NoICCCM.
• NoEWMH.
• And everything is float.

• sh
• xorg
• xorg-xinit(optional)
• xdotool

Option 1: usingcurl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/K4zoku/nowm/master/bin/nowm>~/.local/bin/nowmchmod +x~/.local/bin/nowm

Option 2: usinggit

git clone https://github.com/K4zoku/nowm.git~/.local/share/nowmln -s~/.local/share/nowm/bin/nowm~/.local/bin/nowm

ForBpkg user:

bpkg install K4zoku/nowm

ForBasher user:

basher install K4zoku/nowm

UsingArch User Repository:

First of all you need to havebase-devel group installed as it contains necessary utilities -sudo pacman -Syu base-devel. There are two packages providing NoWM -nowm (stable release) andnowm-git (latest commits). Choose which one you want to install and use your preferred AUR helper, eg:

yay -S nowm-git

or install it manually usingmakepkg command:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nowm-gitcd nowm-gitmakepkg -si

Note If you can and want to port NoWM to other package managers, feel free to do so.

Simply launch it from thetty:

nowm

this will launch NoWM inside X display server withstartx.

startx$(which nowm)

or

xinit$(which nowm)

or

You can put NoWM inside~/.xinitrc:

exec nowm

If you using a display manager, create a file callednowm.desktop in/usr/share/xsessions with following content:

[Desktop Entry]Encoding=UTF-8Name=nowmComment=nowm - managing window without a window managerExec=nowmType=XSession

To config NoWM, you can make aexecutable file at~/.config/nowm/autostart, NoWM will automatically start it at runtime.

Note Check out someexamples.

Special thanks to:

• NNB for polish this project'sREADME.md, write the manpage and designnew logo.

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