Juicebox

Juicebox is a tiled window manager written in Zig with no dependencies. Its implementation with the X protocol is written from scratch, and instead provides handy features to make it easier for the developer to work with, while still remaining low level.

Features

• Multiple workspaces
• Configuration by modifying source code
  • Optionally provide a config file that will be parsed during compilation
  • Use -Dconfig_path=<file_path> to enable this functionality
• No dependencies, just a simple binary
• Small (code size, binary size, resource cost)

Future goals

• Provide an async event loop for X11
  • Currently, we're using a simple blocking event loop to handle events, replies, errors from X11. However, Zig provides great primitives (async, suspend, etc) to create a custom event loop that will allow us to make the library itself a lot more efficient.
• General support for multiple screens
  • Also add support for Xinerama
• Provide a translation layer to connect to/with different bars such as Lemonbar. (Perhaps a bar of its own).

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