EXWM – Emacs X11 Window Manager Elis Hirwing December 26, 2019
Who am I? ◮ Long time Linux and FOSS user ◮ Emacs and NixOS user ◮ Ham radio operator
Agenda ◮ What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ My experience with EXWM. ◮ The future of EXWM.
EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs
EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen
EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows.
EXWM – What is this EXWM anyways? ◮ It’s just Emacs, running full screen, managing your graphical windows. ◮ For both good and bad. . .
EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring.
EXWM – Freshly started
EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.
EXWM – Running graphical applications
EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.
EXWM – Working on code
EXWM – My experience ◮ To begin with it was unimpressive and boring. ◮ Which makes it exciting.
EXWM – The future ◮ The future of EXWM.
EXWM – The future
Year of the Linux Desktop
Year of the Emacs Desktop 2019 is the year of the Emacs desktop!
Conclusions ◮ EXWM is a perfectly decent window manager for long time Emacs users. ◮ My experience is most often: "Works good enough for me". ◮ The future of something like EXWM on Wayland doesn’t exist at the moment.
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