QDWM

Quick n Dirty Window Manager.

QDWM is a small personal X11 window manager written in C. It is not polished. It manages windows, tiles them, draws a bar, handles a few keybinds, and stays out of the way. This software NEEDS a config.h file. I attatch a sample config.h later on.

Features

X11 window management
Tiling and floating modes
5 workspaces
Scratchpad terminal
Simple status bar
Volume display
mpv song display
Keyboard-driven workflow
Around 655 lines of C
Around 3 MB RSS (on my machine)

Warning

This is personal software. It is built for my setup and may break yours. Run it in Xephyr before using it as your actual window manager.

Dependencies

Xlib
a C compiler
pactl for volume status
mpv and socat for media display/control
dmenu for launching music

Build

make clean
make
(sudo) make install

Run

exec qdwm in .xinitrc

Config.h example

This software NEEDS a config.h file. Below I attatch a sample config.h:

#define maxwindows 32
static const char *termcmd   = "st";
static const char *launchcmd = "dmenu_run";
static const char *scratchpadcommand = "st -c scratchpad -e nano /tmp/scratchpad.txt";
static const int gap = 10;
static const unsigned int gridsize = 2;
static const unsigned int modkey = Mod1Mask;
static const unsigned int move_button   = 1;
static const unsigned int resize_button = 3;
static const unsigned int border_width = 2;
static const unsigned long border_focus  = 0xe4bfd7;
static const unsigned long border_normal = 0x8b8391;
static const unsigned long barbg = 0x38323f;
static const unsigned long barfg = 0xf7eef8;
static const int bar_height = 20;

Please don't use it if you value your sanity.

Downloads

github