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

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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


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EXWM – Emacs X11 Window Manager

Elis Hirwing December 26, 2019

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Who am I?

◮ Long time Linux and FOSS user ◮ Emacs and NixOS user ◮ Ham radio operator

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Agenda

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

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EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways?

◮ It’s just Emacs

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EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways?

◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen

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EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways?

◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows.

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EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways?

◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows.

◮ For both good and bad. . .

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EXWM – My experience

◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring.

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EXWM – Freshly started

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EXWM – My experience

◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

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EXWM – Running graphical applications

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EXWM – My experience

◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

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EXWM – Working on code

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EXWM – My experience

◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.

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EXWM – The future

◮ The future of EXWM.

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EXWM – The future

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Year of the Linux Desktop

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Year of the Emacs Desktop

2019 is the year of the Emacs desktop!

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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.

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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