As many of you know, the recent unfortunate turn of events surrounding ion3 led to its being moved to non-free, that and the fact that the upstream author has become rather difficult to deal with made me decide that I no longer wanted to use that window manager. I really want to stick with a keyboard driven window manager, but am not relly completely satisfied with any of the other choices. I had used ratpoison for a number of years and ran wmii-3, but found both of these lacking in one way or another.
So after a short discussion with Mako, I decided to give writing my own WM a go. (yes, because believe it or not, what the world needs is yet another window manager.) I had previously taken a look at PLWM which is a window manager library written in python, which looked like a pretty good starting point. It gives one some of the basics that you would want in a window manager (for instance, give me clients with a one pixel border, and sloppy pointer focus).
Luckly I recently was on a cruise with my in-laws on a boat with not much to do, and a touch of insomnia so I was able to get a pretty good start on tritium. And now I'm ready to start spreading the word.
Currently the code is alpha quality, but working well enough that I'm using it exclusively on my laptop. But please have a look at it. Tell me what you think. Send me a patch!
I made a public git repository:
$ git clone http://tritium.vireo.org/trunk
You can also get a tarball from sourceforge. And there are debian packages available here
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