New release

[tomoverlund]

I notice you are working on lwm2 in a new language. But could you make a new release of this project, which contains the fix for Unicode in titles?

[ghost]

How do you know that @tomoverlund ? Do you have a link for lwm2?

[greg-kennedy]

@varmanishant it's right here: https://github.com/jamesfcarter/lwm2

[ghost]

Thanks, @greg-kennedy .

[philjessies]

I forked lwm years ago to give it nice stuff like xrandr support and unicode, and fix a pile of bugs. My version is currently here: https://github.com/software-jessies-org/lwm

[tomoverlund]

@philjessies I moved on from lwm because it didn't have hardware acceleration. Like if you Control-T in Firefox 50 times or so, and then move the window around quickly with your mouse, you would get screen tearing. I settled on a barebones Xfce (just the xfwm4 and xfce4-panel components) and lightdm as the X login. It uses more memory than I'd prefer (about 150 megs), but it's not too bad compared to Gnome monstrosities and doesn't stick its tentacles into everything like Gnome does.

[philippludwig]

@tomoverlund No window manager has hardware acceleration, you need a compositor such as picom for that.

[tomoverlund]

@philippludwig xfwm4, which I used as a replacement for lwm, has a builtin compositor. I wasn't aware I could use something like picom with lwm (it's not at all clear you can do this when reading something like: https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Compositing_window_manager )