baskerville/bspwm
Bspwm
bspwm is an X11 tiling window manager that organizes application windows into non-overlapping rectangular tiles using binary space partitioning. It treats the screen as a tree of rectangular regions to automatically manage window placement and is compliant with Extended Window Manager Hints.
The project is distinguished by a socket-based window controller, which allows layout changes and configuration settings to be updated via a communication socket rather than through a built-in configuration file.
It provides independent window tree management for each detected monitor, treating every display as a distinct desktop container. The layout engine partitions screen real estate using split types and ratios, utilizing node-based insertion to place new windows into the hierarchy.
The system maintains compatibility with Xinerama, RandR, and ICCCM protocols to ensure integration with standard system tools.
Features
- Tiling Window Managers - A window manager for X11 that organizes application windows into non-overlapping rectangular tiles using binary space partitioning.
- Binary - Uses a binary space partitioning tree to automatically organize application windows into non-overlapping rectangular tiles.
- Multi-Monitor Workspace Managers - Manages independent window trees and desktops across several physical displays.
- Per-Monitor Workspace Stacks - Maintains independent window tree structures and workspace stacks for each detected physical monitor.
- Binary Tree Layout Engines - Organizes windows as leaves of a binary tree to partition the screen into rectangular regions using split types and ratios.
- Binary - Treats the screen as a tree of rectangular regions to automatically manage window placement.
- Socket-Based Configuration - Provides a dedicated communication socket for updating layout changes and configuration settings in real time.
- Socket-Based Window Controllers - Updates window layouts and configuration settings via a communication socket instead of a built-in config file.
- X11 Protocol Implementations - Implements X11 protocols including RandR, Xinerama, EWMH, and ICCCM to ensure compatibility with system tools.
- Dynamic Layout Engines - Allows changing window arrangements and system configurations in real time via a socket-based control engine.
- Binary Space Partitioning - Arranges windows using a binary tree structure to split screen regions into precise rectangular areas.
- Window Managers - Implements Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) to ensure compatibility with system pagers and task switchers.
- Dynamic Window Insertion - Determines how new windows are placed into the layout tree using predefined insertion modes.
- Desktop Screen Partitioning - Divides available screen real estate into smaller segments using split types and ratios defined within the binary tree.
- Desktop Environment Components - Provides the core window management component for a customized X11-based Linux desktop environment.
- Node-Based Layout Insertion - Places new windows into the layout hierarchy using specific split modes and coordinate-based insertion points.
- Window Managers - Tiling window manager using a binary tree layout.
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