sowm (Simple Shitty Opinionated Window Manager)

An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).

• Floating only.
• Fullscreen toggle.
• Window centering.
• Mix of mouse and keyboard workflow.
• Focus with cursor.
• Rounded corners (through patch)
• Titlebars (through patch)

• Alt-Tab window focusing.
• All windows die on exit.
• No window borders.
• No ICCCM.
• No EWMH.
• etc etc etc

Patches available here: https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm/pulls

Default Keybindings

Window Management

Programs

Dependencies

• xlib (usually libX11).

Installation

1. Copy config.def.h to config.h and modify it to suit your needs.
2. Run make to build sowm.
3. Copy it to your path or run make install.
   • DESTDIR and PREFIX are supported.
4. (Optional) Apply patch with git apply patches/patch-name
   • In case of applying multiple patches, it has to be done manually.

If you are using GDM, save the following to /usr/share/xsessions/sowm.desktop. It is still recommended to start sowm from .xinitrc or through your own xinit implementation.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=sowm
Comment=This session runs sowm as desktop manager
Exec=sowm
Type=Application

Thanks

• 2bwm
• SmallWM
• berry
• catwm
• dminiwm
• dwm
• monsterwm
• openbox
• possum-wm
• swm
• tinywm