tatami

a minimal, educational X11 window manager written in go.

tatami enforces a pure tabbed layout: every window is a tab, no tiling trees, no floating layers. the design model is very similar to a browser or to the tabbed mode in i3.

demo

tatami-demo.mp4

configuration

configuration is to be defined at ~/.config/tatami/config.yaml. example configuration can be found at config.yaml.

tatami currently supports the following actions:

• exec - execute an arbitrary command
• close_focused - close the active window
• quit - exit tatami
• focus_left - focus previous window
• focus_right - focus next window
• move_left - shift window left in tab order
• move_right - shift window right in tab order
• focus_workspace - switch to workspace (args: workspace index)
• move_window_to_workspace - send window to workspace (args: workspace index)

references

• https://jichu4n.com/posts/how-x-window-managers-work-and-how-to-write-one-part-i/
• https://movq.de/git/katriawm/file/README.html
• https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/
• https://github.com/CurlyMuch/tinywm-go/