devlog #6 - CONFIGURATION!!!

adding a config file has been in the next steps of just about every devlog i’ve made, and i finally got around to doing it!

config.toml

nwwm wouldn’t be a cliche rust project without a config.toml. but in all seriousness, i really like toml as a configuration language and it integrates really cleanly with rust anyway. so far, you can set parameters like window border, mod key, and default layout in $HOME/.config/nwwm/config.toml and nwwm will read those and apply them at runtime. unfortunately, config isn’t reloadable at the moment (next step?). you can also configure keybinds and even startup commands! i would really have liked to have lua scripting as a config but it’s just a bit too hard for a first wm project. the error handling is pretty hairy at the moment but i’ll fix that soon i promise

other stuff i’ve changed

not much else happened, but i added a feature where debug logging only happens if you run nwwm with -v or --verbose.

next steps

• better error handling in config loading
• config reloading at runtime
• better documentation (maybe a website?)