[gambit-list] dwm

Eduardo Cavazos wayo.cavazos at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 05:43:05 EST 2009


lowly coder wrote:

>   so my current dev environment is xmonad + emacs + gambit; this is about to
> become xmonad + jedi + gambit; but I'd prefer to have my window manager be
> running on gambit too
> 
>   so ... is there anyone else out there also interested in this? we can
> probably start out with something like scwm or sawmill and hack it to run on
> gambit ... or if you're really good with x11, we can even start with some
> thing leaner

DWM consists of a single C file. Check out the size:

/tmp/dwm-5.4.1 # wc -l dwm.c
      1729 dwm.c

So here's another approach. Port that to Chicken/xlib (I think it's the 
easiest off the shelf library). It's less than 2000 lines... If there 
are no unforseen hicups, this is a weekend project.

Ed



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