The Golem X11 Window Manager

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About

Golem is a fast, lightweight window manager for X11 which is very customizable. The newest version is 0.0.6 which you can download from the sourceforge golem page.

Latest News

• May 19th, 2007: Alive and kicking. I will be making a new realease over the next few months.
• March 1st, 2006: devel release 0.0.6 is available. This is very raw and just the first sync of new code. Some things that were working may be broken and lots of new features (and bugs) have been added. All bug reports are appreciated.

Older News

• Golem's development has stagnated for a while and Jordan has given the project to Bruce Ashfield. Bruce is currently working on a new release which will have some existing patches applied. In short: Golem's back :)

If you want to join golem development or report bugs, you can do so in the golem development mailing list golem-devel@REMOVETHIS.lists.sourceforge.net.

Features

• Small memory footprint
• Window decoration customization (Themes) with multiple decoration styles (dgroups)
• Multiple disjoint large virtual desktops
• Hotkeys
• Supports various focusing styles (sloppy, pointer, click)
• Useful stuff for multiscreen displays (special focus cycling modes, etc)
• Xinerama support for multimonitor screens
• Plugins

  pier

  Similar to window maker's dock and afterstep's wharf

  pager

  pager interface

  simple_menus

  root menu interface

  animations

  animations for things like iconification, zooming, etc

  netwm

  netwm compliance plugin (not quite finished)

  wmclass_defs

  allows user to specifiy per-application preferences

  sound

  make golem noisy

  session

  simple (for now) startup management

  box iconify

  snapshot (or not) based icon management

  set root

  wallpaper management

  tasklist

  configurable mouse click on the background brings up the list of known clients and clicking on one restores/raises it.

Screenshots

All these themes and plugins come with the default distribution.

MicroGUI Theme (1280x1024, 344kByte)	AbsoluteE Theme (1280x1024, 832kByte)	eBlueSteel Theme (1280x1024, 813kByte)
MudGolem Theme (1280x1024, 647kByte)	Pager Plugin (1280x1024, 243kByte)	Pier Plugin (1024x768, 262kByte)

Interesting Stuff

• Joshua Swink made a perl program that converts Window Maker style files to golem themes. You can get ahold of it at his page. (mirrored)
• Andrew Sampson made a taskbar plugin. It can be obtained at his page. (mirrored)

Tested Platforms

• FreeBSD (x86)
• Linux (x86)

Authors

Golem is written from scratch by Jordan DeLong (fracture@removeme.allusion.net). Development has been passed to Bruce Ashfield (bruce@removeme.zedd.org). Contributions have been made by several people. Golem is distributable under the terms of a BSD-style license.

Florian octo Forster <octo@removeme.verplant.org>