Chamferwm

Chamferwm is a dynamic tiling window manager with a built-in Vulkan based compositor. Besides aiming to be a fully featured and highly configurable window manager, significant effort is put to provide a complete control over the appearance of the desktop. With its shader based customization system, Chamferwm enables rendering of arbitrary window decorations, borders and effects, maximizing the potential for visual personalization.

Note

In case of open source graphics, the most recent version of Mesa is highly recommended. With older versions of Mesa, one may experience glitches or other graphical corruption.

Features

Window manager:

• Dynamic horizontal and vertical tiling with gaps and stacking

• Specify container size restrictions, overlap when necessary

• Resize and translate individual containers in their place while keeping the surrounding layout

• Floating containers and automatic dialog, dock, widget etc. handling

• Yank and paste containers to move them within the tree hierarchy along with typical move operations

• Configuration with python, scriptable behaviour with client and container specific callbacks

• Fully keyboard controllable

Compositor:

• Vulkan renderer

• Arbitrary window decorations and borders with user supplied shaders

• Per-client materials

• Optional, alternatively use any other external compositor

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page

• Setup and Running
  • Building with Meson
  • Installing from AUR
  • Starting
  • Command line Arguments
• Key Bindings
  • Movement and focus
  • Advanced movement
  • Gouping and parenting
  • Layout, splits and fullscreen
  • Workspaces
  • Client dimensions
  • Launching and closing applications
  • Audio, screen etc.
  • Window Manager
• Configuration
  • Configuration Files
  • Changing shortcuts
  • Launching Applications
  • Python API
• Shaders and Appearance
  • Shader Paths
  • Basic Appearance
  • Rendering Pipeline
  • Advanced Customization