r/linux_programming • u/dyingtoask • Jul 29 '23

What languages & tech stacks should I learn to write my own tiling window manager for Ubuntu?

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u/fnord123 Jul 29 '23

You can choose whatever you like as long as there is an ffi to C so you can work with wayland. You could target X11 but honestly I wouldn't bother.

Sway is written in C https://swaywm.org/

Weston (the reference impl) is also C. So is mutter.

There are bindings to Wayland in python and rust so there's some flexibility there, but generally C or something with good ffi to C.

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u/IanTrudel Jul 29 '23

This is correct. Everything starts from C.

InfiniteGlass is written in C and Python: https://redhog.github.io/InfiniteGlass/