A minimal tiling window manager for X11.

• screenshots
• animations

• Xlib header files
• A standard C compiler
• make

make
sudo make install

By default, the binary is installed to /usr/bin/jotawm.

Configuration is performed entirely at compile time by editing jotawm.h.

To modify the modifier key, default terminal, or keybindings, edit the Configuration block at the top of the source file. Recompile and restart jotawm to apply changes.

The default modifier key (Mod) is set to Mod4Mask (Super/Windows key).

The default terminal is kitty, and the default menu is dmenu_run. Ensure these are installed or edit the termcmd and menucmd arrays to match your preferred software.

• Mod + t : Spawn terminal
• Mod + Space : Spawn application menu
• Mod + kLeft / kRight : Focus next / previous window
• Mod + Shit + kLeft / kRight : Move focused window left / right
• Mod + Alt + kLeft / kRight : Shrink / expand the master area
• Mod + f : Toggle fullscreen for the focused window
• Mod + q : Kill the focused window
• Mod + Shift + q : Quit wm
• Mod + [1-9] : Switch to workspace N
• Mod + Shift + [1-9]: Move focused window to workspace N

Add the following line to your ~/.xinitrc to start jotawm-session using startx:

exec jotawm-session

jotawm installs a desktop file to /usr/share/xsessions/jotawm.desktop, so it should appear as an option in most display managers (Ly, GDM, LightDM, SDDM, etc.).

this is software that i personally recommend to use alongside jotawm

• pulseaudio
• brightnessctl
• polybar
• this picom fork
• ly
• rofi
• kitty

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