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From the «might make it bearable» department:
Title: Jwno: a highly customisable tiling WM for Windows built with Janet
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 20:59:28 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142405/jwno-a-highly-customisable-tiling-wm-for-windows-built-with-janet/


Jwno is a highly customizable tiling window manager for Windows 10/11, built
with Janet[1] and ❤️. It brings to your desktop magical parentheses power,
which, I assure you, is not suspicious at all, and totally controllable.
↫ Jwno documentation[2]

Yes, it’s a Lisp system, so open your bag of spare parentheses and start
configuring and customising it, because you’re going to need it if you want to
use Jwno to its fullest.

In general, Jwno works as a keyboard driventiling window manager[3]. When a
new window shows up, it tries to transform the window so it fits in the
layout you defined. You can then use customized key bindings to modify the
layout or manipulate your windows, rather than drag things around using the
mouse. But, since a powerful generic scripting engine[1] is built-in, you can
literally do anything with it.
↫ Jwno documentation[4]

It’s incredibly lightweight, comes as a single executable, integrates perfectly
with Windows’ native virtual desktop and window management features, has
support for REPL[5], and much more.

Links:
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/ (link)
[2]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/ (link)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager (link)
[4]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/features.html (link)
[5]: https://agent-kilo.github.io/jwno/repl/index.html (link)