Ming-wm is a keyboard-based, retro-themed window manager for Linux. It is single-threaded, and is neither for Wayland or the X Window System - it writes directly to the framebuffer. Inspirations include i3, Haiku, SerenityOS, and Windows98, and it is a conceptual successor to the previous mingde and ming-os.

Running

Create a password.txt file in the same directory as build.rs, otherwise the default password will be "incorrect mule lightbulb niche".

For best performance:

cargo build --release
./target/release/main

Though just cargo run --release can be done.

Running on Mobile Linux

Running with an onscreen keyboard. The framebuffer may not be redrawn to the screen without a (real) key press. The volume down button seems to work.

cargo build --release
./target/release/main touch

Optionally, in landscape mode (todo: osk may be broken in landscape mode):

cargo build --release
./target/release/main touch rotate