TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

I think that the real advantage of something like this is that it provides a minimal template to follow if one wants to start writing a window manager in one's language of choice (assuming that language already has some X bindings). One can start from there, & then add ICCCM, tiles, whatever else one wants. edit 1: accidentally a word edit 2: I'm at a loss at why this isn't considered a contribution to the conversation. Can anyone enlighten me?

Wayland version of TinyWM: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master...

You know, succinctness is not something I look for in C code. Unless you're artificially going for obfuscation; I think 50 lines is barely enough to check arguments, open descriptors, test results, setup signal handlers and sit tightly on a loop. You will need at least another 50-500 just to implement ICCC.