Pegasus Epsilon's Desktop Environment (pede)

Pegasus Epsilon's Desktop Environment (pede) is an attempt to build a better mousetrap. I think I'm doing a pretty decent job, honestly.

Some information about pede:

• It does not reparent
• It does not composite (we use xcompmgr for that stuff)
• It does not read any configuration files other than the power button image data
• It does not draw any UI widgets other than its power button
• No, not even a confirmation dialog when you click the button. Be careful.
• No, not even window decorations.
• No, not even title bars.
• No, not even resize indicators.

This DE is not for the faint of heart. It is for the extreme minimalist.

What does pede do, then?

• ~~It takes less than a megabyte of RAM, even with how fat linux has gotten~~ Unfortunately a recent rewrite took it to 1,100kB on load - just 76kB larger than a megabyte. Xlib shenanigans see that grow to 2,232kB before stabilizing, occasionally going back down. A rewrite in xcb will help, and it's already started, but it will be a while.
• It positions windows. It positions windows well.
• It closes windows politely if they ask for politeness, rudely if they do not
• It has workspaces
• It lets you switch between workspaces
• default: super+[1234], super+(left|right) arrow
• It lets you move windows between workspaces
• default: super+shift+[1234], super+shift(left|right) arrow
• It lets you move and resize windows with the mouse
• default: Super+left-click = move
• default: Super+right-click = resize
• It lets you restack windows
• default: alt+tab
• It snaps windows to the edge of the screen
• It snaps windows to each other (kind of, might leave it this way, I kinda like it?)
• It draws a compositor-friendly power button in a configurable location
• It compiles quickly, which is good, because...
• It is reconfigured by editing the source and recompiling
• It relaunches itself when it receives the USR1 signal, without letting X close
• It will improve over time, until I am happy with it
• And if you want it to do more, you can edit the source.

If you try pede, like it, work on it, whatever, let me know. I won't be accepting most pull requests, but I encourage you to make them anyway. If you make a change I like, I'll merge it. But know that the roadmap is in flux.

Anyway, that's it. Go play with the code.

Places files go on my system: - pulse-volume in ~/.pede/ - pede_badge-symbolic.svg in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/places/ - pede.desktop in /usr/share/xsessions/