joshwm

certified "tryharding" for hack club riceathon

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joshwm is a "blazingly fast" window manager written in Rust with Xlib (not fast), (originally) for the Hack Club Riceathon.

Basic features

• Framed windows
• Moving and resizing the windows
• Very iffy Ctrl-Q that may work sometimes-ish _{(that keybind instead of Alt-F4 because XQuartz+Xephyr has a grudge against me)}
• Shift click to bring a window to the front

Why should I use JoshWM?

You shouldn't. This was a learning exercise. Please don't use this. Please PLEASE don't use this.

Why did you make this?

Because I wanted to learn Rust (better than a hello world print and a terminal calculator). I'm REALLY bad at making anything look good, and Leah from slack said I could write a WM instead of customizing one, which is a lot more my speed.

Okay, but why do the riceathon if you can't rice?

Because the funny. Also, prizes are either get a blahaj or thigh highs... worth it even if I look like an idiot submitting definitely not a rice.

Why Xlib rather than XCB?

I'm not ballsy enough for that. Let me take a break from Vulkan in peace, please...

"X11 is dead! Long live Wayland!"

Well yes, soon probably (as in ~5-10 years) Wayland will be more widely adopted. But with the same as above, let me take a break from Vulkan in peace.

Funnily enough the parallels between the X window system/Wayland and OpenGL and Vulkan are definitely there;

• OpenGL/X window system
  • Old
  • Incredibly easy to write code for, tutorial ridden and well trodden.
  • Becoming deprecated in favor of a new better alternative
• Vulkan/Wayland
  • The better alternative in question
  • New with slightly lackluster support (although Vulkan is not too much of this anymore)
  • "You like writing 1k loc hello worlds, don't you buddy? Yeah, of course you do."