oh one more screenshot

xcompmgr + samurai-x + (bodged) rounded corners

rounded corners... just

It looks pretty... the code is rubbish!

And fred said, "let there be color.. i mean pango.. urr who?"

yahiko term works!

I rewrote yahiko term to use my own term code instead of that from TermEmulator. No specific reason but I thought I could do better. Anyway - here is irssi and vim running! Just need some color now... /me looks at fred ;)

It cant be....

Is that window titled yahiko-term? I hope its not a pure python terminal ....

Happy Birthday samurai-x!

sx is one year old today! ( or close enuff anyway ). We've come a long way but still plenty to do...

Talking of which lately Iv mostly been working on a status bar/panel for sx. Iv implemented configurable "slots" which are how you build up your status bar and Iv written slots that work as labels, clocks, active desktop and active app all of which also support updating via dbus. The status bar is in yahiko if you want to try it out for yourself.

Unfortunately the status bar code has brought up some problems with sx-desktops not handling sticky ( and other ) windows correctly which means Im now working on a new focus stack

Anyway ( Im writing this while cooking pasta )... Thanks to all who have worked on, tested and helped with samurai-x. I cant wait to see sx in another years time!

Good news everyone...

(Because I know fred will never blog about it... ;)) samurai-x is now using a new DBus module called yaydbus. Why? Because its written in pure python ( we like that! ) and no more nasty gobject loop, perfect!

Plus I think I know how Im going to write the new statusbar Im working on ( which will use DBus a fair bit ).

Exciting...

(You can find yaydbus in the samurai-x git repo btw)

Interactive sx

Interactivly editing yahiko styles via the sx-web plugin

sx update

Well after the release we had about 6000 visitors to the sx site! woo! Thats about 5500 more than usual! ;) Not got much more to say about the release except that Iv now fixed the download problem with ooxcb.

What we've done since? Fred has re-arranged ooxcb quite a bit and started wrapping some more extensions *whisper* composite *whisper*. Ive been trying to get bbpager ( and hopefully other pagers ) to work and have been looking at ewmh stuff. Now plugins can tell the app what hints they provide support for.

Cant think of anything else right now...

samurai-x 0.2 is OUT!

firstly: Yay!

The release announcment looked like this ( just in case you missed it ):

We are happy to release version 0.2 of samurai-x. samurai-x is a
window manager written in pure python using ctypes, xcb and cairo.

A lot has happened since version 0.1 including:

    * a new plugin system - the core samurai-x is now very small
      with all other functionality added via plugins

    * a new xcb binding - ooxcb - for more information
      see http://docs.samurai-x.org/ooxcb/

    * lots of plugins! we now have plugins for most common
      features found in other window managers

For more information, including installation instructions check
http://samurai-x.org or join us in #samuraix on irc.freenode.net

Big thanks to all have helped out with samurai-x but especially to
Friedrich Weber for writing ooxcb and all the other work on
samurai-x he has done and also to Jochen Maes for hosting the
project.

So whats in store for sx 0.3 and beyond? Hopefully:

• better config management - we need some schema or something so plugins can validate configs and also show something in --default-config
• pypy support - hopefully fred is going to make us some nice rpython for ooxcb but also I hope to get sx running on pypy
• did someone say compositing...?

So stay tuned! Lots of exciting code to come!