Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

What Happened

steppewm-readme.mp4 steppewm Stacking small wlroots window manager

windows overlap, with titlebars and a taskbar like IceWM, .

Stacking window management, snapping, workspaces Taskbar and Alt-Tab switcher 25 classic IceWM pixmap themes included OSD for volume, brightness and keyboard layout Layer shell, session lock, multi-monitor System tray XWayland via xwayland-satellite (optional) Lua configuration Install On Arch, :

://aur.archlinux.org/steppewm-git.git cd steppewm-git makepkg -si Elsewhere, build it. wlroots 0.20, 0.19 and 0.18 all work, so whichever your distribution ships should be fine.

Why It Matters

% make configure % make build # make install Configuration steppewm is configured through config.lua, which is looked for at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/steppewm/config.lua (~/.config/steppewm/config.lua). A custom passed with steppewm -c /path/to/config.lua

See the example config.lua for config options. The full reference, including theming converter, /steppewm.md.

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