FNFnoord·Oct 25, 2020Submission
Durden – Desktop Environment for Arcan
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durden
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letoram / durden
durden
Desktop Environment for Arcan
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesArcan http://arcan-fe.com/ is an alternative. Durden (https://github.com/letoram/durden/) is a tiling window manager for it.
In Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”at the very least, they'll have to work -hard- to get it as easy to hack as https://github.com/letoram/durden/blob/master/durden/tools/f... :-)
In Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006Yes, it's called Durden [0]. There was also AWB, now defunct [1].
[0] https://github.com/letoram/durden
[1] https://github.com/letoram/awb
In Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature ParityI assume that the video you are referring to is the durden demonstration playlist [1] and not the general project presentation?
For durden alone, it's a bit hard to invite the comparison on a level other than feature, since I have to cover the bases that xrandr, xset and a whole lot of other x* tools provide - but current and planned features is tracked in the checklist if you scroll down in the readme at [2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqpKIeZOSp6quf6CmMOr...
[2] https://github.com/letoram/durden
In I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool