WinWMKit

WinWMKit is a C library for building window managers and window-management tools on Windows.

It is not meant to be a framework. It does not try to define your architecture, own your main loop, or force a specific style of app. It is a batteries-included library that gives you the pieces a window manager usually needs.

From the public API, that means:

• top-level window enumeration
• focused-window lookup
• monitor enumeration
• window geometry and monitor geometry helpers
• move, resize, and set-rect operations for windows
• monitor selection helpers for a given window
• an asynchronous event loop with callbacks
• optional named-pipe intake for external commands or integrations

In practice, it is the kind of library you use to make a window manager, not a window-manager framework.

See exemple/ for the current example program using the public API.

Build

Run them from a Developer PowerShell or a Visual Studio command prompt so cl.exe and lib.exe are available.

python build.py
python build.py static
python build.py shared --no-sanitizers
python exemple/build.py
python build.py compdb
python build.py clean

The default configuration enables the address sanitizer. Pass --no-sanitizers to build without it, or --sanitizers <name> to pick a different MSVC sanitizer mode.