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TinyWM is an ultra-minimalistic window manager for X11.

Installation

aptitude install tinywm #no longer available, 2021.

Creating a practical session

The following example will create a TinyWM "session" that starts with two terminals open.

cat << EOF > /usr/bin/tinywm-session
#!/bin/sh
xsetroot -solid "#000000"
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults
x-terminal-emulator
x-terminal-emulator
exec /usr/bin/tinywm
EOF

chmod a+x /usr/bin/tinywm-session

cat << EOF > /usr/share/xsessions/tinywm-session.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Tinywm session
Comment=Ridiculously tiny window manager
Exec=tinywm-session
Terminal=False
TryExec=tinywm
Type=Application

[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true
EOF

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