Few questions regarding the leftwm.

[Joe23232]

I am considering to use leftwm but I have a few questions.

• While leftwm doesn't have a taskbar, is there a highly configurable taskbar that is also configurable in Rust and integrates well with leftwm, for example if I click on a separate tag on the taskbar, I want the theme to change its default colours. That also includes the window manager's themes as well, can this be integrated easily?
• Is it very customisable? Can I customise it as much as I can with awesomeWM? For example like this?
• Does it use xlib or xcb library like awesomeWM does?
• Is the project active?
• Does it have proper good documentation?

[lex148]

• I am not aware of a taskbar written on rust. I keep switching to and from polybar and xmobar (I have a really good old config I like ). If find a rust taskbar please let me know I would LOVE to support it.
• you can absolutely customize it. Here are a couple examples I did when LeftWM was very new. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bfbgcs/leftwm_for_a_future_generation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bocdsj/leftwm_pure_bliss/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ba3gir/leftwm_early_morning_work/ I would expect you would have no problem making that exact theme. Here is a link to some info about themes. https://github.com/leftwm/leftwm/tree/master/themes
• Currently under the hood it uses xlib. The logic for this is all wrapped in a trait. There is a possibility I might change it out one day, or even support wayland.
• Yes the project is active. It is the WM I use every day while working, so bugs typically get fixed pretty fast. That being said, I usually slow release new versions for stability.
• You be the judge on this one. I personally think more is always better here.

[lex148]

If you do port that theme to LeftWM please shoot me a link to your git repo. I would really like to see it. it looks awesome.

[Joe23232]

Hi mate

I am not aware of a taskbar written on rust. I keep switching to and from polybar and xmobar (I have a really good old config I like ). If find a rust taskbar please let me know I would LOVE to support it.

Somebody told me that it does exist.

https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust

you can absolutely customize it. Here are a couple examples I did when LeftWM was very new. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bfbgcs/leftwm_for_a_future_generation/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/bocdsj/leftwm_pure_bliss/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/ba3gir/leftwm_early_morning_work/

Pretty interesting themes mate :)

Currently under the hood it uses xlib. The logic for this is all wrapped in a trait.

I was discussing with some of the awesome folks over on Redit and they claimed that while awesomeWM uses Lua for scripting, it is still faster than XMonad and DWM cause it uses the XCB library rather than the XLib. Is this true?

Yes the project is active. It is the WM I use every day while working, so bugs typically get fixed pretty fast. That being said, I usually slow release new versions for stability.

Ah I see, are you the only one working on the project?

You be the judge on this one. I personally think more is always better here.

Sure man. I just need to complete my exams and I will love to play around with it but the only thing I wanted to suggest is maybe like awesome it should support widgets and bar, or at least allow the user to import it as a separate library like XMonad does.

If you do port that theme to LeftWM please shoot me a link to your git repo. I would really like to see it. it looks awesome.

Sure mate, I will try and make it look similar (but have some noticible differences) to the picture that I have sent to you.