[TUHS] Siemens RTL window manager

[Briam Rodriguez via TUHS]

Hi Daria,

I got rtl-wm building and running on macOS (tested on Apple Silicon with 
MacPorts). Opened a PR with the changes:

https://github.com/dariaphoebe/rtl-wm/pull/1

The changes are minimal:
- Two small source fixes (NULL → '\0' for char assignments - these were 
causing errors on modern clang)
- A Makefile.macos for building with MacPorts X11
- Updated README with macOS instructions

No changes to the original Imakefile or build system. Requires liboldX 
which isn't in MacPorts anymore, but builds fine from source.

Let me know if you'd like any changes to the PR.

-- Briam R.

On 2/10/26 12:08 PM, Daria Phoebe Brashear wrote:
> Fork it and pull request? I planned to do this anyway (at this point
> macOS is all I actually have physical hardware for anyway)
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM Briam Rodriguez via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>> Took a bit to get it to crank over, and the mouse support is a bit janky
>> (def. not made for a trackpad!) but happy to report it compiles on macos
>> 26.2 using xquartz.
>>
>> If anyone's interested i can supply the patches.
>>
>> -- Briam R.
>>
>> On 2/9/26 11:05 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear via TUHS wrote:
>>> Every time I spend time manually tiling windows, I think about the
>>> Siemens RTL Window Manager. Despite being approximately X11R4 years
>>> old in terms of coming to Unix, binaries of this built from
>>> X11R3-contrib were still floating around when I started exploring
>>> things past the base environment we were provided; Like the Andrew
>>> Window Manager and the port for X11, the source for this was lost for
>>> a while but unlike wmc, someone found, patched and shared a copy of
>>> the source a while back(+), and I dug out my copy again recently to
>>> hopefully play with.
>>>
>>> Lest the tarball ever become unavailable at the URL from the email,
>>> I've pushed a copy to GitHub here:
>>> https://github.com/dariaphoebe/rtl-wm
>>>
>>>
>>> +https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1112/10398.html
>>>
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