vwm

vwm is a minimalist, keyboard-centric X11 window manager.

Features

• Primarily keyboard controlled with some vi influence
• Unlimited virtual desktops grouped into contexts
• All switchable entities (windows, virtual desktops, contexts) kept in MRU (Most Recently Used) order
• Tiling-like autoconfiguring of windows for full, half, and quarter screen dimensions and placement
• Minimal waste of screen space on WM functionalities (only context-colored window borders)
• Multi-head aware
• Per-window high-frequency continuous CPU utilization monitoring w/graphs
• Lightweight immediate-mode classic X server rendering when CPU monitors are hidden
• Composited indirect-mode X server rendering only when CPU monitors are shown
• GNU Screen integration for launching of X clients, retaining access to their respective controlling PTYs on an attached "console" xterm

Omissions

vwm is not:

• Run-time configurable
• (New-)user friendly
• Unnecessarily decorated
• Concerned with your expectations or preferences
• EWMH (Extended Window Manager Hints) compliant
• ICCCM (Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual) compliant

vmon

Included in the vwm source tree is a standalone CPU utilization monitoring utility called vmon.
vmon produces the same realtime CPU graphs as vwm does for its managed windows, but makes them generally available externally and independent of vwm, e.g.:

vmon video captures

vmon facilitates capturing its X window contents by monitored commands via string interpolation, making available its X window id as '%W' at runtime.

The recordMyDesktop X desktop recording tool for instance accepts an X window id as a commandline argument.
Combined with its lightweight capture and deferred encoding, this makes for convenient and surprisingly useful scripted recordings of monitored tests, e.g:

Headless vmon

Intended for server/embedded use cases, vmon also supports a "headless" mode, obviating the need for any X dependencies.

To utilize headless mode supply the '--headless' flag to vmon, combine with '--snapshots N-seconds' to persist a PNG of what's been captured, e.g:

`vmon --name example-headless-invocation --headless --hertz 1 --snapshots 600 --width 3600 --height 5000 --now-names`

Documentation

At this time the only documentation is the README found in the source.

Source

`git clone https://git.pengaru.com/git/vwm`

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