(26-07-2017, 02:43 PM)darthlukan Wrote: I've been reading through Window Manager docs and trying to write one myself for a while. Every time I get some headway, I scrap it and start over, never satisfied with my garbage C skills. I want to write it in C because I'm weak in that language (I could have probably already finished it in Python or even Go, but then I wouldn't be learning what I want to learn or building what I want to build). It's so bad, that I haven't even put it up in a Git repo because the history would just be a ton of scrapping commits and deletions.

Writing a WM is a big project, and as such, you first need to organize and plan what your code will be. For such a project, you'll need to be consistent in style, and stick with it until you have something working. Don't change your mind mid-way, or you'll loose a huge amount of time.

Regarding the actual code, don't hesitate to look into other projects, particularly swm, 2bwm and wmutils (we wrote wmutils so that the code is easy to understand and reuse).
There is also libwm which you can use to focus on features rather than dealing with windows themselves.