Miracle-WM 0.3 Arrives with Bling, Bug Fixes - Better i3 IPC Support
If you’re yet to try Miracle-WM, a new tiling window manager made for the Mir Wayland compositor, the latest version, released today, would be a stellar place to start. Made by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek (in his free time; it’s not an official Canonical project), miracle-wm aims to pair the efficiency that tiling window managers like i3 and Sway offer with “flashier graphics […] full of smooth transitions and colors”.
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Miracle-WM 0.3 Brings Animation and Border Customization Features
Two and half months after the previous v0.2, the Miracle-WM team announced the release of version 0.3. However, if you haven’t heard of it, here’s a bit more about it.
Miracle-WM is a new Wayland compositor rooted in the foundations of Ubuntu’s Mir display server. It draws inspiration from popular tiling compositors like i3 and Sway but aims to surpass them in both aesthetics and functionality.
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Experimental Mir-based tiling WM winning acceptance
The Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Canonical's Mir display server has hit 0.3 – and also reaches places you may not expect to find Canonical code.
The new version is 0.3.0 and as Miracle-WM's core functionality settles down somewhat, it's starting to get prettier as well. Although it's still new, there are several things about it that are a little different, which is why we've covered earlier versions here on The Register. Version 0.1.0 only appeared in February, and was followed by version 0.2.0 in April.
The new version not only improves window management, it also adds some eye candy. Window resize and move operations can now include animation effects, as well as switching between workspaces. Lest ye mock, this sort of thing has been attracting folks to Linux for at least a decade and a half. Windows can now have borders, and that of the active window can be a different color, to make it more obvious which one you're typing into. There are also improvements to IPC (inter-process communication), which is modelled on that of i3.