Scwm: Scheme Constraints Window Manager

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Table of Contents

Scwm: Scheme Constraints Window Manager

What is Scwm?

Overview of Talk

What is a window manager?

Conceiving Scwm

Birth of Scwm

Design Principles

Demonstration

Scwm Implementation

Downsides of Scwm

.scwmrc configuration file

Scwm: A WM that can add 2+2

Interactive features

Scheme

Higher-order functions

Anonymous functions

Hooks for extensibility

Extensible GUI Configurability

Scheme evaluation

Prefix vs. infix

Scheme literals

List evaluation

Quoting

Other special forms

Future work

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Author: Greg J. Badros

Email: gjb@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb