 StumpWM, a window manager in Common Lisp | |
| Developer(s) | Shawn Betts |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 23.11[1] 
/ 26 November 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Common Lisp |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Window manager |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later[2] |
| Website | stumpwm |
StumpWM is a tiling window manager that was created when developer Shawn Betts found ratpoison growing increasingly large and "lispy". Intended as a successor to ratpoison, StumpWM is released under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license.[2]
As explained on the StumpWM wiki, the developers decided to largely re-implement ratpoison in Common Lisp using CLX:[3]
StumpWM grew out of the authors' frustration with writing ratpoison in C. Very quickly we realized we were building into ratpoison lispy-emacs style paradigms. We had a REPL hanging off 'C-t :', hooks, and a growing subset of Common Lisp in the implementation... It was clear what we really wanted was a window manager written in Lisp from the ground up with lots of room for customizing and real-time hacking.
The authors describe StumpWM in the following terms:[4]
StumpWM attempts to be customizable yet visually minimal. There are no window decorations, no icons, and no buttons. It does have various hooks to attach your personal customizations, and variables to tweak.
A rewrite of StumpWM under the name Paulownia was being undertaken but has since be abandoned.[5]
