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tiles

A pure js xorg window manager, that I wrote on the plane.

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Usage - development

install Xephyr to run another display inside your current window manager.

then start everything with the DISPLAY envar set, so it will run in the correct display.

Xephyr -br :1 &
DISPLAY=:1 xterm &
DISPLAY=:1 node tiles.js

Usage - production

first, install globally npm install -g tiles

my ~/.xinit looks like this:

setxkbmap -layout dvorak
export TERM='xterm -fn=7x13 -rv'
exec node /home/dominic/c/tiles/tiles.js > tiles.log

On my setup, I login on a bare terminal, and then start my window manager with startx. If you use ubuntu or something with a shishi login screen you can add the following to /usr/share/xsessions

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=tiles
Comment=This session starts tiles
Exec=/PATH/TO/tiles.js
Type=Application

(that is what nwm suggests, so that will probably work)

Configuration

tiles uses rc to manage it's configuration. see ./config.js for default settings. Currently only animation time and framerate are configurable. TODO: keyboard commands.

Acknowledgements

This was easy becase of x11, and what I had learnt hacking on nwm I would also never have done this if gb and eb hadn't helped me install archlinux (and escape OSX)