Oxide documentation

Oxide is a tiling window manager for X11. It is written in Rust and uses X11rb. This project idea is inspired by DWM, leftWM and i3WM.

Oxide screenshot

A short overview about the topics on this page:

The site “Introducing Oxide” contains basic knowledge for getting in touch with Oxide.

Furthermore the category “Project procedure” contains every relevant documents and informations about the development process, e.g. specifications or critical technologies and their justifications.

The section “Diagrams” is for the different diagrams from component and hmi behavior over UML-diagrams to automatically generated class-diagrams.

Last but not least there is “Using Oxide”, which describes the process of installation as well as the different configuration options, containing the man pages among other things, too.

Contents

• Home
• Introducing Oxide
  • Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Target group
  • Product functions
  • Config file
  • Logging
  • Files
  • Bugs
• Project procedure
  • Customer specification (Lastenheft)
  • Technical specification (Pflichtenheft)
  • Project handbook
  • Work package plan
  • Technologies
  • Testing Oxide
• Diagrams
  • Components and behavior diagrams
  • HMI behavior
  • Flowcharts
  • Class diagrams
• Using Oxide
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Configuration of statusbar
  • Configuration of Oxide msg