2bwm
==========
A fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm written by Michael Cardell.
In 2bWM everything is accessible from the keyboard but a pointing device can be used for move, resize and raise/lower.
WARNING: This WM and this repository are experimental, 2bwm is only meant for advance users.
Features:
=========
You can check what mcwm already had here:
http://www.hack.org/mc/hacks/mcwm/features.html
http://www.hack.org/mc/hacks/mcwm/
When talking in size proportion, 2bwm binary is 28KB, when dwm bin is 33KB, dvtm 37KB, and i3 343KB.
```
raptor $ size /usr/local/bin/2bwm
text data bss dec hex filename
24851 1904 664 27419 6b1b /usr/local/bin/2bwm
raptor $ size /usr/bin/i3
text data bss dec hex filename
284247 10020 5704 299971 493c3 /usr/bin/i3
raptor $ size /usr/local/bin/dwm
text data bss dec hex filename
28802 1932 528 31262 7a1e /usr/local/bin/dwm
raptor /usr/local/bin $ size dvtm
text data bss dec hex filename
30955 2212 33408 66575 1040f dvtm
raptor /usr/local/bin $ size monsterwm
text data bss dec hex filename
17778 1428 72 19278 4b4e monsterwm
% size /usr/local/bin/w9wm
text data bss dec hex filename
35325 3360 952 39637 9ad5 /usr/local/bin/w9wm
% size /usr/local/bin/evilwm
text data bss dec hex filename
39456 2080 600 42136 a498 /usr/local/bin/evilwm
% size /usr/local/bin/openbox
text data bss dec hex filename
316466 3572 2368 322406 4eb66 /usr/local/bin/openbox
% size /usr/local/bin/ctwm
text data bss dec hex filename
336742 12076 23840 372658 5afb2 /usr/local/bin/ctwm
raptor /usr/bin $ size awesome
text data bss dec hex filename
296570 1984 1832 300386 49562 awesome
```
Now comparing Memory ressource usage. (in KB)
mcwm -- the wm 2bwm is based upon
dvtm -- a terminal multiplexer
```
~ > ps -eo args,size,vsize,rss
mcwm 300 2480 668
2bwm 300 2536 680
9wm 296 3816 1160
cwm 584 7044 3308
bspwm 304 2872 964
dwm 300 5400 1384
monsterwm 304 3708 1008
herbstluftwm 316 5536 1844
herbstclient --idle 312 5204 1224
ctwm 708 7112 2360
twm 964 6820 2552
i3 1400 14760 4248
openbox 1952 16412 736
dvtm 5624 9656 6256
fbpanel 3460 135928 14012
```
Notice that all those WM are really small and that size doesn't really matter in the end.
(Someone should write something about the features here)
//Panel that works with 2bwm: fbpanel, tint2, xfce4-panel, lxpanel, hpanel, cairo-dock
tweaks you need for 2bwm on OpenBSD: add /usr/X11R6/include to search path, install gcc-4.7, use CC=egcc make
Added snapping from the latest mcwm push.
Screenshots:
============
TODO:
=====
* Rewrite the readme file
with more statistic,
specifying all the features,
adding new scrots,
link to other documentation,
why should someone care,etc..
* Toggable sticky workspace per monitor
* Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH)
- Use the new xcb-ewmh for the EWMH hints.
_NET_WM_STATE, _NET_WM_STATE_STICKY,
_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT,
_NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN
* configs in a text file, parsed, and updated at restart
* Handle new modes on physical outputs. What do we have to do?
* A separate workspace list for every monitor. (CTRL+NUM)
* get the cursor position (on which monitor)
* unmap all window that are only on this monitor
* map window on the workspace NUM that are on this monitor
* problem with curws and remapping
* curws could be associated with the focuswin instead
* Check why the input focus doesn't work well with applications such as macopix
* Code cleaning
- Use bitfields instead of extra lists for workspaces?
Authors:
=======
`Beastie | Youri Mouton + Venam | Patrick Louis`