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BurntSushi
wingo
Go2012–2023
BurntSushi / wingo

wingo

A fully-featured window manager written in Go.

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6Distinct people
20Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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What it is

A fully-featured window manager written in Go.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

One possible problem with your experience with 3 monitors is that you have poor tools at your disposal to manage them. When I first switched from 2 monitors to 3 monitors (on…

burntsushi used a recommendation phrase. 3 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-22 21:17:13 UTC to 2023-11-15 18:24:19 UTC.

02462012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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burntsushi·Apr 6, 2015Recommendation phrase
One possible problem with your experience with 3 monitors is that you have poor tools at your disposal to manage them. When I first switched from 2 monitors to 3 monitors (on Linux), it was horrendous: - My workspaces were monolithic. If I changed my workspace, the windows on all my monitors went with it. - Alt-tab worked globally across all monitors. I wanted it to only list the windows that were on the currently focused monitor. - Moving windows from one monitor to the next in a predictable way was a chore. (I eventually resolved this with some key bindings, but it was a hack.) - No window manager I know of afforded me the option of using tiling or (GOOD) stacking layouts on a per-monitor basis. (Some tiling WMs exist that solve the monolithic workspace problem, but they are all tiling.) My first solution to this was to fork Openbox. It
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worked well for a while, but it was subject to a lot of state transition bugs and my hack became hard to maintain. So I wrote my own. In Go. (Including a full X client stack.) https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo I love working with three monitors now, because I can freely mix and match the windows on my screen. My workspaces are dynamic (add/remove/rename as I please), so everything is composable. On one monitor, I might have a bunch of terminals in tiling mode. On another, I might have GIMP in stacking mode. Interestingly, in order to achieve this, I had to break compatibility with existing standards (but support as many as possible). As a result, some existing WM tools (particularly pagers and possibly task bars) just can't work well with my WM without explicit support. Perhaps this is why so few of these WMs exist outside the tiling world!
In 3 monitors won't solve your problems
burntsushi·Feb 22, 2015Recommendation phrase
> But when I read stuff like this I remember why I love using Go every day. Me too! I wrote a window manager in Go[1] that I've been using for years now. I love that it takes <30 seconds to download and compile the whole thing. No C dependencies (compile or runtime) at all. With that said, doing it with Rust should be almost as easy. There's no `cargo install` command, but I think it's only a matter of time. :-) Your ideas seem cool, by the way! Sharing CSV data would be especially nice. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/wingo
In XSV – A fast CSV toolkit in Rust

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