It's not such a long story.
Some time ago, I started developing eowm, a window manager that is supposed to be the successor to catwm. When I was writing it, I tried to make the code readable for beginners and... simply pursued the goal of writing a “dumb WM.” After a while, I lost interest and switched to dwm, but something was missing...
While browsing itch.io, I stumbled upon a game called “dazOS.” I mention it only because it had a window manager in which windows would stick to a grid. That was my “Eureka!” moment.
Today, I want to show you my finished prototype. It has gaps, window borders, multiple workspaces, fullscreen mode, and most importantly, an overlay with a grid of symbols. It's hard to explain... Well, basically, they are symbols from your keyboard. You choose “from” and “to” where to stretch the window.
Readme: https://hg.qwa.su/gbwm/file/tip/README.md/
Project page: https://qwa.su/gbwm/
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