Cello - A floating window manager smooth as a cello

Description

Cello is a floating window manager for X11.

Cello is intended to be a lightweight and customizable window manager. It uses a client, called celloc, to comunicate with the wm, using a socket that allows you to write your own softwares to talk with the wm (such as voice assistents), not depending of celloc.

important: this project is under development, not recommended to use it as your main window manager

Todo

some functionalities I want to implement to cello (not necessary on this order)

• Basic WM functionalities
• Basic EWMH integration
• Fullscreen windows
• Basic bar/dock support - tested polybar, tint2, latte, plank(doesn't display softwares launched) and yabar(crash sometimes)
• Temporary message parser
• Focus mode
• Multi-monitor support
• Reserve space for bars/docks
• New message parser
• Fix resize teleports
• Integrations with QT (set theme, icon theme, fonts, ...)
• EWMH integration
• Reparent windows to frame

Building

Dependencies

• xcb
• xcb-cursor
• xcb-util-wm

Building the sources

Make sure to have the dependencies above, the run:

# Build the sources with
$ make
# And to install
$ make install

Known bugs

• reload crash the wm
• resizing isn't natural

In case of new bugs, please, write an issue. pull requests are welcome too 😁

Thanks

• sowm
• bswm
• 2bwm
• i3wm
• goomwwm