Juicebox is a tiled window manager written in Zig with no dependencies. Its implementation with the X protocol is written from scratch, and instead provides handy features to make it easier for the developer to work with, while still remaining low level.
- Multiple workspaces
- Configuration by modifying source code
- Optionally provide a config file that will be parsed during compilation
- Use
-Dconfig_path=<file_path>to enable this functionality
- No dependencies, just a simple binary
- Small (code size, binary size, resource cost)
- Provide an async event loop for X11
- Currently, we're using a simple blocking event loop to handle events, replies, errors from X11. However, Zig provides great primitives (async, suspend, etc) to create a custom event loop that will allow us to make the library itself a lot more efficient.
- General support for multiple screens
- Also add support for Xinerama
- Provide a translation layer to connect to/with different bars such as Lemonbar. (Perhaps a bar of its own).
