EndeavourOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution, and in and of itself not something I’d write about here. However, at the very end of the release notes for its latest release, there’s this:
This release is also shipping with a brand-new Window Manager developed by our community editions team member Codic12 and we are more than proud to present you this WM that was developed a little bit under our wing.
Codic12 decided to develop this WM to satisfy his need for a lightweight window manager that worked well with both floating and tiling modes and had window decorations with minimise, maximise and close buttons in any layout desired and that could run on a semi-embedded system like the PIZero.
Worm is written in Nim and is based on X11, a Wayland version isn’t in the pipeline in the near future, according to him.
There’s been a surge of interest in tiling window managers lately, with tons of articles and howtos about things like i3 and Awesome, and System76, too, made tiling a prime feature in Pop!_OS. Heck, even Windows is in on the game. Tiling isn’t for me – I’ll manage and resize my window manually, like an animal, thank you very much – but there’s no denying there seems to be a huge demand for tiling features.
Lately indeed a lot of “window managers” and “desktop environments” is emerging. I do test a lot of them. Somehow i feel that after they reach some initial goals they often stagnate after. Compared to lets say more mature options such as KDE.
I understand what you mean. I don’t think stagnating is necessarily a bad thing though. There’s situations like Openbox, which I’ve been using for around a decade. The last stable release of Openbox was in 2015, and I couldn’t be happier with the look, stability, and feature set. 🙂
They’re nice on small screens, like laptops. I don’t really like them on multiple monitors or my big desktop monitor.
Concluding from the (single) provided screenshot the Worm Window Manager does not to appear to be tiling at at all …
Found some more screenshots here:
https://github.com/codic12/worm/wiki/Screenshots
So tiling is apparently just an option a user can choose. Other than real tiling WM Worm keeps the unusual window decoration even in tiling-mode and even has a small gap between windows where the backgrounds shines through ….
So it seems to be a good option for normal users, that want to have a way to clean up a desktop when needed.
“It supports both a floating mode and master-stack tiling with gaps and struts” . so apparently, it’s flexible.