EXWM Emacs X11 Window Manager Elis Hirwing December 26, 2019 Who - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

EXWM – Emacs X11 Window Manager Elis Hirwing December 26, 2019

Who am I? ◮ Long time Linux and FOSS user ◮ Emacs and NixOS user ◮ Ham radio operator

Agenda ◮ What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ My experience with EXWM. ◮ The future of EXWM.

EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs

EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen

EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows.

EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows. ◮ For both good and bad. . .

EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring.

EXWM – Freshly started

EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

EXWM – Running graphical applications

EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

EXWM – Working on code

EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

EXWM – The future ◮ The future of EXWM.

EXWM – The future

Year of the Linux Desktop

Year of the Emacs Desktop 2019 is the year of the Emacs desktop!

Conclusions ◮ EXWM is a perfectly decent window manager for long time Emacs users. ◮ My experience is most often: "Works good enough for me". ◮ The future of something like EXWM on Wayland doesn’t exist at the moment.

Contact ◮ DECT: 5173 ◮ Mastodon: sa0bse@chaos.social ◮ IRC: etu on most big networks ◮ XMPP/Email: etu@failar.nu ◮ Website/Blog: https://elis.nu/ ◮ Callsign: SAØBSE