Is there any plan to add reload functionality? Kind of compile and reload in Xmonad. It's a bit long if I have to do it manually, so it will be a great to have this functionality without closing X. Thank you.

Frakenstein was actually the doctor who created the monster.
The monster itself has no name and throughout the novel is referred to simply as "monster".
Currently, your Window Manager makes reference to a doctor who created a monster, not to a monster itself.
I don't believe you are going to rename it, but just thought about letting you know.
And thank you for conceiving it, looks pretty good so far.

I don't know if it's juts me but I can't get frankenwm to output to anything at all, using the latest build. If anyone could let me know what I'm doing wrong (trying to get the output to lemonbar), I'd be very grateful. Just using the provided script (dwm-like, to bar), edited out so that it's lemonbar. But the fifo is always empty.

Hello, I am really impressed with window manager, no doubt it's one of the best. I am used the autostart application using autostart.sh script but I can't find the way to do this here. But how to autostart applications ?

• Open any app (e.g. terminal)
• Open Chromium.
• Select monocle mode in frankenwm
• Focus Chromium
• Click on any part of the webpage.
• Chromium flickers.

killling the scratchpad with killclient() causes a coredump
i know the scratchpad is meant to be toggled but killing a client with a key shortcut is truly force of habit haha.

As is evident in the screenshot (this one was taken with scrot although maim also has the issue) an additional border is seen around the windows excluding the bar (polybar in this case). Not sure why this is happening.

Command used for maim was: sleep 2 && maim -m 10 frwm_2.png
and that for scrot was scrot -d 3 -q 100 frwm_2.png

Some programs create windows that are never intended to be displayed, e.g. a terminal vim session opens an X window to interact with the paste buffers. During a single WM session this window avoids being displayed by simply never sending the WM a map request, but frankenwm's current startup behaviour will addwindow every existing client without regard to its initial mapping state.

Can we add tabbed layout into frankenwm? It will be like monocle layout but we will know all windows that we have in the workspace by looking into the tab.

Hi,
Please add release(s) for maintainers.

Keyboard shortcuts are working as expected. I disconnect my external keyboard (this is a laptop) and reconnect it again. Suddenly the window manager does not recognize any keystroke/shortcut. Apps still run fine.

1. Open window1
2. Open window2
3. Minimize one of them
4. When you minimize the other, the X session is killed

If a program draws a bunch of new windows all of them sporting the same WM_CLASS there's no way of directing them to their respective desktops (manually doesn't count). Are there any plans to make rules match against window titles (WM_NAME or NET_WM_NAME, don't know)?

That single window you dragged or resized should be put in float mode, not the entire WM

If i change workspace, notifications are hidden by open windows.

When cycling through layout modes, sometimes the windows just start glitching and freezes the system.

Video

I know sulami was working on it, but is it finished?

FrankenWM with multi monitor support like DWM and MonsterWM. I think it's the best way to draw on every screen the same?

For example, the normal vertical stack goes like:

  ___________    ___________    ___________ 
 |           |  |       |   |  |       | 1 |
 |     0     |  |   0   | 1 |  |   0   |___|
 |           |  |       |   |  |       | 2 |
 |___________|  |_______|___|  |_______|___|

The inverse vertical stack would go like:

  ___________    ___________    ___________ 
 |           |  |       |   |  |       | 1 |
 |     0     |  |   1   | 0 |  |   2   |___|
 |           |  |       |   |  |       | 0 |
 |___________|  |_______|___|  |_______|___|

Currently, the first window spawned gains priority. In the inverse mode, the new window gains priority.

Something like:

MOD4+SHIFT+p: Change priority mode

Hi. I'm trying your wm and so far so good. There is one problem, I'm using lightdm to start frankenwm. So couldn't figure out how to create fifo for panel. I changed xsession file's exec line, like this: frankenwm > /tmp/frankenwm.fifo but it didn't login. What can i do to use panel? Sorry for noob question. Thanks.

Main problem was, they were built on previous "Fullscreen" enhancencement and maybe did not build because of this.
Thanks for merging "Fullscreen".

What I have in my config is this:

`

define ATTACH_ASIDE True

define FOLLOW_MOUSE True

define FOLLOW_WINDOW True

define CLICK_TO_FOCUS False

`
But it's not working and I don't know where I've gone wrong configuring it. I'd be glad if someone point me where's my mistake.

Beside that, I'm struggling with the autostart. I'd appreciate this too :)

Have a nice day.

move_down (Mod4|SHIFT + XK_j by default) causes a crash due to dereferencing a null current pointer if there are no windows on the selected desktop

https://gist.github.com/sulami/d6a53179d6d7479e0709

I have been trying to setup a status bar in FrankenWM.

I copied the dzen2 scripts from your gist.

When I run then as written they both fail to start with errors:

frankenwm2dzen-dwmlike.sh:

~/bin/frankenwm2dzen-dwmlike.sh: 6: ~/bin/frankenwm2dzen-dwmlike.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

frankenwm2dzen.sh

~/bin/frankenwm2dzen.sh: 6: ~/bin/frankenwm2dzen.sh: [[: not found
~/bin/frankenwm2dzen.sh: 10: ~/bin/frankenwm2dzen.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "done")

I changed the sh to bash in the shebangs and ran them again.
Now they start but I just get the a blank status bar at the top of the screen, and the I cannot quit the window manager when running the dwmlike version of the script.

I deleted the pipe in the tmp dir between attempts.

I also tried changing the shell to zsh in the shebang but the results were the same as bash.

If i put the cursor at the middle of the screen and MOD4+right_click to resize, after dragging it should go to where the cursor is dragging too.
Instead, the window just obeys how much I drag, but not where I am dragging.

Can we have it?
Currently there is only Vertical Dualstack

Do I have to bind them or something?
My brightness keys work by default

(^^^ should have been 'otherwise' in the headline)
Well, you closed the issue, so to say thank you I had to open a new issue. This is not ideal, kind of using a bug tracker as a forum. Seems you're not on the Arch Linux forums, is there a frankenwm irc channel anywhere?

This didn't happen before, I poked around for a solution.
I have a feeling its another one of those obvious things that Ive missed

Hi,
so I've just installed FrankenWM and love it so far, very fast and minimal window manager, but is there any way to autostart applications or daemons like picom, polybar, emacsclient etc. in FrankenWM with a shell script or in the config itself? Im not very experienced in C so I don't know if this is a stupid question.

Thanks a million in advance

When spawning new windows, it spawns it at the top left corner, and quickly moves it to the stack, causing flickering. This is the only thing stopping me from using frankenwm, because I'm quite sensitive to flickering.

In my config.h I have

    static const AppRule rules[] = { \
    /*  class     desktop  follow  float */
    { "Sylpheed",     4,    False,   False },
    { "Pidgin",        4,    False,  False  },
    };

Now, whenever I start sylpheed using dmenu, the sylpheed window is invisible and create a new tile/region in my desktop 0. If I change to a different desktop and back the desktop 0, the window is finally visible.

The blue is my root window.

Making any window fullscreen (that uses incremental resizing), fails

it flickers, then restores to regular size.

Unable to set top bar/panel using polybar. Bottom bar works perfectly but top bar don't work.

Here is what I do and what I get
$ polybar mybar -c path/to/my/bar
Output:> Segmentation fault (core dumped))

top bar works in other window managers but not work in frankenwm.

There was a thread about this issue before but a solution was no provided by OP.
I've been googling and searching but i can't seem to figure this out.

I changed bar to lemonbar in the script.

Launching frankenwm2bar.sh from a terminal results in:

frankenwm: error: other wm is running
: No child processes

My .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh
exec frankenwm & wmpid=$!
sleep 2
~/.config/scripts/bar.sh &
~/.config/scripts/display.sh external &
hsetroot -cover ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/Wal_1.jpg &
xrdb -load /home/rico/.Xresources &
wait $wmpid

Lemonbar launches and shows me the date and time but nothing else.

I'm not sure what is causing this or what i should google for. Any help is greatly appeciated.

EDIT:
Distro: Arch
FrankenWM built from source.

EDIT:
Error message might be unrelated to my problem.
frankenwm.fifo seems to be empty.
As suggested in a different threed i set EWHM_TASKBAR to False, didn't work tho.

http://a.pomf.se/czfppg.webm

This freezes FrankenWM and I have to quit X or even hard poweroff the computer sometimes. It makes it pretty unusable for me, unfortunately. Hope it can be fixed soon.

And it doesn't show, but the cursor keeps blinking ultra between 'loading' and another mode very fast when hovering on the grey window.

For some reason when in monocle mode I can only see one window. Although window switching works (the one on top loses focus) it doesn't put the selected window up front for me to see, it stays in the background...

Here's my �config.h, I'm running the latest git version.

It would be nice if we can set the border size of specific windows matched to their rules.
Like;

static const AppRule rules[] = { \
    /* title regex  desktop  follow  float  border_width  border_color */
    { "GNU Image",  -1,      False,  True,  3,            "#ffffff" },
    { "Skype",       3,      False,  True,  3,            "#ffffff" },
    { "Chromium",    2,      False,  True,  0,            "#ffffff" },
    { "xterm",      -1,      False,  False, 5,            "#ff00aa" },
};

The Awesome implementation; http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Understanding_Rules#Getting_Started

@sulami
I've been using frankenwm since the work on packaging it for NetBSD.
I'm very happy with it and looking no further. Great WM!

Do you have any experience integrating it on a DE?
Anything to think about if I was to replace openbox by frankenwm on LXQt?
Any config in config.h I should be careful about?

Thanks!

Please feel free to close the issue.

My idea is for the bottom stack to become horizontal stack, where new windows can be spawned either on the bottom or the top (changing it with MOD4+SHIFT+i, just like you do for the vertical stack).

Some windows are floated when created and others that may/should be floating are not.

Using Pidgin, create a new account but do not save your password. Close Pidgin and open it again. It will trigger a window asking for the password for the account. This window is not floated.

Using Pidgin, use CTRL+M in your buddy list to open a window to select a contact. This window is floated.

I'm using bspwm as a reference, which floats both type of windows.

Just something I noticed but whenever I start an x session and open my first window It does not have a border around it.

When I open a second window borders will appear around both of them.

Any idea whats going on? thanks.

  ___________    ___________    ___________ 
 |           |  |     |     |  |   |   |   |
 |     0     |  |  0  |  1  |  | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 |           |  |     |     |  |   |   |   |
 |___________|  |_____|_____|  |___|___|___|

The same thing for horizontal. There's no main window, all window divide space equally.

Mod4+Shift+q is my suggestion.
It quits your X session and brings you back to the tty

Many WMs use the following buttons config for this:

Hide
MOD4, XK_m

Unhide
MOD4|SHIFT, XK_m

Whenever I use monocle mode, it seems as though all the windows are being drawn at once on top of each other--but not in any sychronized or organized way, so the result is a flickering/shimmering effect where I see horizontal slices of each window flash on the screen.

I'm using xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+364+gb24e758 on xorg-server 1.17.2.

Hi,
So, I've packaged and now maintain frankenwm on NetBSD.
I was using spectrwm prior to this but, I'm now running the git-master branch of frankenwm on my machine.
Very happy with it :)
To the question, is there a way to make the WM use some cursor-theme? When inside Gtk or Qt apps is fine but, when no window exists it uses the big X from x11. I'm getting used to it but still wonder... spectrwm didn't do this.
Note, I never specify any cursor-theme to use on either WM's.

Again, just asking. Its no big issue. Thanks for this WM.

When I change to colemak which is the main layout that I use. Most of the keybinds become defunct, but it is not all. alt + 'K' for example still functions but then alt + 'j' does not.

Hi, I have noticed that when I open a few windows in Fibonacci mode (8 or so) the windows become so small that the geometry calculations go wrong. I end up with windows moving off to the right of the screen and causing significant slow down of FrankenWM.

Try opening lots of xterms in a Xephyr window that is about 600x600, xterm soon fails to allocate memory as it is given strange dimensions by FrankenWM.

Perhaps it'd be a good idea to not allow the user to spawn new windows if the size of the new window will be less than MINWSZ?

FrankenWM binds do not detect my keyboard layout. For example FrankenWM thinks mod4-r (default dmenu bind) is mod4-p because that is where it is in to qwerty. Other programs such as qutebrowser do not have this issue. I have removed the 00-keyboard.conf file and add my keyboard layout too my .xinitrc as suggested in a previous post but that did not resolve the issue. This is my 00-keyboard.conf file.
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "us(cmk_ed_us)"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104caw-zqu"
Option "XkbVariant" "colemak,cmk_ed_us"
Option "XkbOptions" "misc:cmk_curl_dh,caps:backspace,altwin:swap_lalt_lwin"
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