wasamasa
commented
3 years ago Have you even tried using this project in the first place? There are a lot of roadblocks to resolve before you can even consider making another window manager or porting it to a different hardware platform:
- The system segfaults when trying to boot into graphical mode on macOS: https://github.com/mntmn/interim/issues/11
- The prebuilt RPi image isn't the same as the self-built one which fails to boot into graphical mode: https://github.com/mntmn/interim/issues/14
- There are GC issues that prevent you from using
let(hence the many code examples that define global variables instead). - There are graphical glitches when trying to use the existing window manager.
- Keyboard handling is inconsistent across different keyboard systems: https://github.com/mntmn/interim/issues/7 https://github.com/mntmn/interim/pull/13
- Hardware-dependent code is rather messy and hardcodes RPi2-specific constants for common actions like delay/sleep.
- The JIT compiler assumes a modern CPU with 32bit wide registers, so forget about microcontrollers.
Personally, the greatest value of this project to me is studying it and understanding how such a system can be built from relatively little code. Its overall quality is at the proof of concept stage. Expecting it to be reliable enough for use like an established OS (which have plenty tiling window managers) or easily portable to different hardware (like the microcontroller), yeah, no. I've contributed a few fixes here and there, but it's hard to improve it substantially without a full rewrite.
ojej
Please make any tiling wmanager.
not it is possible to runt this system on microcontroler too? raspberry pi pico for example?