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mixu / nwm

Tiling window manager for X11 written in Node.js
http://mixu.net/nwm/
MIT License
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floating windows #39

Open rhackhack7 opened 10 years ago

rhackhack7 commented 10 years ago

I like to know if it's possible to build floating windows, because I'm building a node desktop environment. Any help is welcome.

mixu commented 10 years ago

yes, but you'll need to add some additional functions to the native binding library in https://github.com/mixu/nwm/tree/master/src/nwm to expose these x11/xlib functions: http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window/stacking-order.html on the Node side

right now nwm doesn't really handle floating windows specially - after all it's a tiling wm