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onflapp / TWDE

Terminals and Windows Desktop Environment
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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please explain this (exciting ?) project #1

Open zeroheure opened 1 month ago

zeroheure commented 1 month ago

Hi onflapp What is this ? I'm just curious, as I follow your work in GSDE compare to NextSpace.

onflapp commented 1 month ago

This is my newest experiment that tries to answer: is it possible to create functional desktop using traditional Xwindow tools and shell scripts?

It is very much inspired by UNIX philosophy where you've got different tools glued together by scripts. For example: Imagine you've got scripts to tile or maximise or group windows into workspaces, rather than hard-coded functionality of a window manager. Or why not to use xterm + fzf as a quick application launcher. Or Xwindow's native selection mechanism + shell scripts to implement simple (yet powerful) service-like functionality.

I'm kind of trying to push the existing tools to its limits. Xwindow is incredibly powerful when it comes to automation and scriptability. So is xterm. Why to reinvent the wheel?

Some of the concepts will most likely feed into GSDE like scriptability of composability. ...but yah, it is just something I am playing with at the moment ;-)