The Stump Window Manager

Stumpwm is a window manager written entirely in Common Lisp. It attempts to be highly customizable while relying entirely on the keyboard for input. You will not find buttons, icons, title bars, tool bars, or any of the other conventional GUI widgets.

These design decisions reflect the growing popularity of productive, customizable lisp based systems.

Build & Start Stumpwm

Prerequisites

• a common lisp distribution. CCL, CLISP, and SBCL all work.
• clx
• cl-ppcre

If you intend to use SBCL or CCL you need to install portable-clx. If you're using clisp, make sure you use at least version 2.42 and that clisp is compiled with new-clx. As of clisp 2.42, new-clx works fine with stumpwm. Any version before that is too buggy to run stumpwm.

You can use asdf-install to install lisp libraries: $ sbcl * (require 'asdf) * (require 'asdf-install) * (asdf-install:install 'clx) * (asdf-install:install 'cl-ppcre)

If using clisp, you'll need to install asdf first to use asdf-install. $ mkdir -p ~/.cl/asdf && cd ~/.cl $ wget http://cclan.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/cclan/asdf/asdf.lisp -O ~/.cl/asdf/asdf.lisp $ echo "(load #p"/home/USER/.cl/asdf/asdf")" >> ~/.clisprc.lisp $ mkdir -p ~/.cl/systems $ echo "(push #p"/home/USER/.cl/systems" asdf:central-registry)" >> ~/.clisprc.lisp $ wget http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/asdf-install_latest.tar.gz $ tar xf asdf-install_latest.tar.gz $ ln -s ~/.cl/asdf-install/asdf-install/asdf-install.asd ~/.cl/systems/ $ clisp * (asdf:operate 'asdf:compile-op 'asdf-install) * (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op 'asdf-install) * (asdf-install:install :cl-ppcre)

CCL has asdf built in, but you will need to get asdf-install like with clisp.

Your operating system distribution may also have these libraries available.

Building

Building stumpwm from CVS requires that you build the configure script:

$ autoconf

If there's already a configure script then just run it.

$ ./configure

By default stumpwm elects sbcl. If you have both installed, you can explicitly select clisp like so:

$ ./configure --with-lisp=clisp

If your lisps are in strange places you may need to tell the script where to find them:

$ configure --with-sbcl=/home/sabetts/opt/bin/sbcl --with-clisp=/usr/local/downstairs/to/the/left/clisp

Now build it:

$ make

If all goes well, you should have a stumpwm binary now. Sorry there's no install yet. Just copy the binary wherever you want or run it out of the stumpwm/ directory. If autoconf worked properly, you can install the binary, along with the .info documentation with:

$ make install

Now that you have a binary, call it from your ~/.xinitrc file:

$ echo /path/to/stumpwm >> ~/.xinitrc $ startx

Hopefully that will put you in X running stumpwm!

SBCL And Threads

SBCL compiled with threads causes problems with stumpwm. The most common is sluggishness. It may also cause stumpwm to become unresponsive. If you use SBCL, consider using a version built without threads.

CCL And Virtual Memory

On 64bit platforms, CCL reserves a "very large" amount of virtual memory. If this bothers you for some reason, you can pass the -R or --heap-reserve option to the binary in your ~/.xinitrc file. See http://ccl.clozure.com/manual/chapter15.1.html for an explanation.

Help

There's a texinfo manual, stumpwm.texi. the build scripts generate an info file you can read in emacs or with the `info' program.

For other stuff visit the stumpwm wiki:

http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/

There's a #stumpwm channel on irc.freenode.net, too.

Questions?

See http://stumpwm.nongnu.org/community.html for more information on contacting stumpwm developers and users.