slapwm (Window Manager)
Posted by fatius at November 22nd, 2006
This thing was great. I say ‘was’ because I haven’t used it in a while, but here is how it works. It’s a fully functional window manager with a couple of bells and a few whistles. It handles all of the standard window manager features like maximize, iconify, shade, pagers, multiple desktops etc. But it also has really nice configurable key commands. You can map “Shift-Alt-Left Arrow” to “Move window seven pixels to the left”… or it could have been maximize window, whatever you want. It has root menus, a clock and applets that you could write without compiling any code (I’ve never seen that anywhere else on a linux based window manager). It also has a really nice
I’ve included some screenshots from throughout the history of slapwm. Including one historically interesting one.
