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* ensure newly created windows are placed somewhere visible - ie, not off the screen. * ensure newly created window sizes aren't insanely large, which end up being unable to be moved or resized in amiwm. This has shown up with gtk apps (kicad, firefox) with their load/save dialog. For some reason they want to be almost 2x my desktop size, making them super hard to use.
amiwm
Amiga Workbench inspired window manager for Xorg.
Getting started
Before compiling, make sure that you have following packages installed:
gcc make autoconf xorg xorg-xinit xorg-dev
First, run configuration script:
./configure
After that, you can either edit the Makefile, or leave it as is. After that, compile and install amiwm using
make
sudo make install
Hopefully, your compilation was succesfull - now you should have amiwm installed!
Launching amiwm
To launch amiwm, use
startx amiwm
Or add "amiwm" to your xinitrc file
Configuration
Configuration utility is not yet available; To configure amiwm, you'll need to create and edit .amiwmrc file in your home directory. To do so, read amiwm's manpage.
Authors
Originally created by Marcus Comstedt; Contributions by
- Scott Lawrence
- Nicolas Sipieter
- redsPL.
Previous repositories
Previously, amiwm was using bzr instead of git; The bzr repository can be found here
License
This project is published under a custom license - see LICENSE.md for details.
Amiga, AmigaOS and Workbench are registered trademarks of AMIGA International Inc.