[ChanderG]

I created my own X11 window manager [1] at the start of this year in around 800 lines of C.

I had been using dwm (4000 lines of C) for many years and wished to write my own for a long time, but what made me take the leap was really steveWM [2] and TinyWM [3] which are both super small.

[1] - https://github.com/ChanderG/cellwm [2] - https://github.com/stodd1031/steveWM [3] - https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm

[vidarh]

TinyWM was the starting-point for my wm in Ruby as well. It really drives home just how little you need to get started.