Tag Archives: framework

Romulus, My Window Manager

Posted on Monday 23 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

About a year ago, I wrote about making your own window manager in Python, and how to extend this to use Twisted as your window manager’s main loop. Around the time I wrote those articles, I also wrote a tiling … Continue reading →

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Twisted + Pygame the Easy Way

Posted on Monday 20 February 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve put together a Python package called fibre. It provides helpers to make it easy to write asynchronous applications. It uses Twisted under the hood. I’ve also made a package called fibre.ui. It adds user interface support using pygame. One … Continue reading →

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Python Window Manager, Now With Twisted

Posted on Monday 4 April 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

And Now for the Big Event Loop Last week I wrote about how to create a window manager in Python and posted code for a simple example window manager. The example I posted was about 260 lines long including comments. … Continue reading →

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How to Write a Window Manager in Python

Posted on Monday 28 March 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

Window Manager of Your Dreams I wrote a few months ago about a bunch of different window managers which I’d investigated. In this post, I’ll present the source code for a new, very basic, window manager written entirely in Python. … Continue reading →

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Python Unit Testing

Posted on Monday 11 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve had to write and maintain Python unit tests both for work and for Trosnoth.  I’ve played around with py.test and nose, and have done a tiny bit with trial (for twisted).  As a result I’ve come up with the … Continue reading →

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