Re: where i find a manual for write a wm in gtk3 ?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27 gmail com>]

On 27/02/14 00:20, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> hi;
>
> you really cannot use GTK+ to write a window manager.
>
> to be absolutely, brutally honest with you, you should not write a
> window manager *at* *all* — not even a little one.
>
> if you want to experiment with window management policies, I suggest
> you look at Wayland and Weston, and ignore as much as possible X. you
> won't be able to write a window management plugin for Weston with GTK+
> either, but at least your sanity will be saved.

You can write the shell client with gtk+, see

https://github.com/tiagovignatti/gtk-shell

although all the stacking and window logic live in a different place, the shell
module.

Emilio