ashrwm

wayland, linux, window manager, river-based, janet

A window manager for the river Wayland compositor.

ashrwm is currently around 900 lines of Janet but capable enough to use as my daily driver.

features

  • Dynamic tiling with layouts
    • Tiling layout
    • Grid layout
    • Scroller layout
    • Monocle layout
  • Tags
    • Each window has exactly one tag
    • An arbitrary number of tags can be displayed at once on each output
    • Each tag can be displayed on at most one output at a time
  • Floating windows
  • Sticky windows
  • Focus follows mouse
  • libinput configuration
  • Hot reload configuration
  • A REPL

install

AUR

paru -S ashrwm

OR 

paru -S ashrwm-git

building

Run `zig build`. All dependencies will be fetched by Zig and built from source.

Requires Zig 0.16, a statically linked Zig binary can be obtained from https://ziglang.org/download/.

usage

Run ashrwm inside https://codeberg.org/river/river. Requires river v0.4.5. It may be useful to start ashrwm from river's init script in ~/.config/river/init.

example river init file: 

#!/bin/sh
# essentials
dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ashrwm
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

# startup programs
emacs --daemon &
swayidle -w timeout 600 "systemctl suspend" before-sleep "swaylock" &

ashrwm > ~/.ashrwm.log 2>&1

On startup ashrwm will evaluate ~/.config/ashrwm/config.janet will be tried, if it does not exist or has a error then it falls back to system default in /etc/ashrwm/config.janet.

Get the default config by, if you have not done it already. 

cp /etc/ashrwm/config.janet ~/.config/ashrwm/config.janet

Passing a file to ashrwm as an argument will evaluate that file instead.

See example/config.janet.

screenshots

credits

ashrwm is a fork of rijan made by the developer of river Isaac Freund.