Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: Where's the FAQ?
  • A: Right here, jXWM Frequently Asked Questions :-D

SourceForge Project Resources

Warning - This document is a work in progress, consider it a draft until this warning is removed.

Warning - This document is a work in progress, consider it a draft until this warning is removed.

To provide a flexible development platform for researching, prototyping, and testing alternate X user interfaces for wearable or mobile computing and other computing environments where traditional user I/O devices are not useful.

jXWM aims to be the "EMACS" of X window managers for wearable computing providing configurability, scriptability, and intergration with today's pervasive and distributed computing technologies.

• • Scriptability - expandable and accessible
  • Integration - access to and controllable by external services (Jini, One World, jAugment, ORB, RMI, etc.)

• • Scriptability - expandable and accessible using any provided implementation language (Java, Scheme, Lisp, or even ecmascript/javascript)
  • Integration - accessible from and controllable by external services (Jini, One World, jAugment, ORB, RMI, etc.)

• • Basic design consists of a foundation for locating and managing the life-cycle of jXWM extensions, and the low level support for implementing X window operations for use by jXWM extensions.

• • Basic design consists of a foundation for locating and managing the life-cycle of jXWM extensions.
  • Extensions provide foundational support for implementing almost all other jXWM features and can be used to implement user extensions and applets.
  • Extensions allow for threaded processing of most any type of events, X, AWT/Swing, and user defined.

• • Must handle mouse-less navigation and use.

• • Mouse-less navigation and use.

configurations where using a normal pointer is difficult.

configurations where using a traditional pointer device is difficult.

* Specific to X window name and/or class.

Warning - This document is a work

Warning - This document is a work

managing the life-cycle of JxWM? extensions, and the low

managing the life-cycle of jXWM extensions, and the low

use by JxWM? extensions.

use by jXWM extensions.

Status

Recent Status Updates

• 05/08/2002 Began moving project to SourceForge.

A complete history of the jXWM project can be found here.

Since the project is so new I haven't taken the time to set up project space on SourceForge? yet. If the demand is high enough I will make this a priority.

Projects resources for jXWM are being hosted at:

• http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jxwm/
  
  

Many thanks to SourceForge for providing services to jXWM andthe Open Source community at large.

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jXWM - The Java Extensible Window Manager

Warning - This document is a work in progress, consider it a draft until this warning is removed.

• jXWM - The Java Extensible Window Manager
  • Proposal
  • Targeted Features
  • Status
  • Interested in helping?

Proposal

Targeted Features

• The "EMACS" of window managers, providing:
  • Configurability - flexibility and power over ease
  • Scriptability - expandable and accessible
  • Integration - access to and controllable by external services (Jini, One World, jAugment, ORB, RMI, etc.)

• Extensible
  • Basic design consists of a foundation for locating and managing the life-cycle of JxWM? extensions, and the low level support for implementing X window operations for use by JxWM? extensions.

• Flexible UI for use with desktop or wearable.
  • Must handle mouse-less navigation and use.
    • Keyboard-mouse
      
      Pointer emulation using keyboard. Essential for use with chording keyboards with no mouse or wearable configurations where using a normal pointer is difficult.
      
      Implementation based on Escher's Puppet and not on current buggy X consortium implementation.
    • Mouse position recording and stepping to ease mouse-less use with mouse centric applications.

Status

• 20/06/2002 Start initial design notes.

Interested in helping?

If you are interested in contributing to jXWM at either the design level or by coding please drop me a note at pascal@pascal.org.

Since the project is so new I haven't taken the time to set up project space on SourceForge? yet. If the demand is high enough I will make this a priority.