# cococry/ragnar

Minimal, flexible & user-friendly X tiling window manager

Repository: https://github.com/cococry/ragnar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ragnar
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: window-manager, x11, linux, i3, tiling-window-manager
Last push: 2026-08-23T16:16:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 88
- inputs: {"age_days": 1238, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1246, forks 30 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:07.302849+00:00)

## What it is
Ragnar is a minimal, dynamic tiling window manager for X11 written in C using the XCB API. It provides tiling layouts, IPC support, external configuration with runtime reloads, and reparenting-based window decoration in roughly 5,000 lines of code.

## Use cases
- tiling window manager for X11
- minimal daily-driver window manager for Linux
- foundation for building a custom desktop environment
- window manager with external config file and runtime reload
- i3-like tiling on X11
- extend a window manager via IPC plugins

## When to choose
- You want a compact, hackable C codebase for an X11 tiling WM
- You prefer preset tiling layouts over tree-based manual placement
- You need IPC and runtime config reloads for scripting your desktop

## When to avoid
- You need Wayland support
- You want complex tree-based or manual tiling layouts
- You need a full desktop environment out of the box

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: c
- tags: window-manager, tiling, x11, xcb, ewmh, ipc, minimalist, linux

## Member repositories
- cococry/ragnar (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.302849+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:08:02.488238+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cococry/ragnar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:07.302849+00:00, sha 72d791875fb1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.