
TOS Desktop Environment
A desktop environment build ontop of awesome wm
About The Project
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Getting Started
To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.
Prerequisites
TDE depends on a lot of different tools and projects. A list can be found here
Installation
- Install dependencies
sudo tos -S tde xorg-server-xephyr
if you are using an arch based distro that is not tos add the following repo to /etc/pacman.conf
[tos] Server = https://repo.odex.be
- Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/ODEX-TOS/tos-desktop-environment.git
- Set the required files in the appropriate locations
sudo mkdir -p /etc/xdg/tde sudo cp -r tos-desktop-environment/tde/* /etc/xdg/tde
- Use wm-debug for easier development
git clone https://github.com:ODEX-TOS/wm-debug.git cd wm-debug # prepare the wm-launch settings etc sudo ./wm-launch -i # you can now access wm-launch from everywhere # the -r 100x720 will create a screen of that size with TDE inside of it wm-launch -r 1080x720
Usage
TDE
has an entire wiki which explains most in detail. It can be found
here The README helps you into figuring out how to help
and how to get started
We have three major directories
tos
contains the configuration files of TDE - this directory contains example conf files (the real once are stored in~/.config/tos
)plugins
contains example plugins for TDE (the real once are stored in~/.config/tde
)tde
the source code of the desktop environment
Unit Test
You can run unit tests by executing the following command in the root project directory
bash test-runner.sh
You can also get the JUNIT output by executing the following (t will be saved in result.xml)
bash test-runner.sh result.xml
Alternative unit testing output is also available
RUNNER="tap" bash test-runner.sh
Docker
You can also run the test suite using the tos
docker image We have provided an
image on top of that located in tests/Dockerfile
` You can build and run it
like this:
# build the image docker build -t "tde-test-suite" tests # run the test suite docker run -v "$(pwd):/data" tde-test-suite
Alternatively we have provided a docker-compose file that does this all for you
docker-compose up
Profiling
When developing you can also perform some profiling.
The TDE profiler
listens for function calls and counts how many times the happen. For each function call we measure the time it took.
This way we can have educated guesses where the time gets spent the most.
Thus improving performance in the most critical parts of the system.
Profiling can be done by executing the following command:
bash profiler.sh --help # for example profile tde (for 10 seconds) and return the top 100 functions (in terms of cpu time) bash profiler.sh -t 10 -F 100 # Same as above but use realtime instead of cpu time bash profiler.sh -t 10 -F 100 -r # Save the result to tde-functions.result bash profiler.sh -t 10 -o tde-functions.result # Run the profiler on a file bash profiler.sh -f tests/scripts/full
Hot Reload Widgets
You can also quickly develop widgets for tde
this can be done through the hot-reload-widget.sh
file
Note that you need to have inotify-tools
installed.
If you are using the TOS
operating system, this script will auto download it for you.
Development using this script is as followed:
- create a
.lua
file in our example we will usehello.lua
- The bare minimum for this file should be the following:
local wibox = require("wibox") return wibox.widget.textbox("hello")
- Run the script on this file
bash scripts/hot-reload-widget.sh hello.lua # replace hello.lua with your file
- develop your widget/plugin
NOTE: The file you are developing on needs to return a wibox.widget object Otherwise
TDE
doesn't know how to display itSecond NOTE: the script listens for filesystem event and reloads your widget each time it is changed
Some people don't like that the hot-reloaded widget consumes the entire space.
If that is the case then use the -s
option this will make the widget consume 50% of the screen instead of everything. (This issue is not present with multi monitor setups)
closing the widget
We don't use the Escape key to close the widget This is because we would need to consume the Escape key. This would result it the underlying widget from not being able to capture this event. Thus we decided to strictly use the backdrop/close button to close the widget.
Commit hooks
Before creating commits you need to setup commit hooks. These commit hooks perform a series of checks to make sure you didn't forget something important
This ranges from linting, license checks, correct usage of branching etc
It is not mandatory to use this feature, however it will make it more likely to be allowed.
Setting the commit hooks is as easy as executing the following commands from the project root:
ln -s "$PWD"/hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks/pre-commit ln -s "$PWD"/hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/commit-msg ln -s "$PWD"/hooks/pre-push .git/hooks/pre-push
Roadmap
See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributing
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. First ensure you have read the wiki especially the style guide page
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
) - Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature'
) - Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature
) - Open a Pull Request
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE
for more information.
Contact
Tom Meyers - tom@odex.be
Project Link: https://github.com/ODEX-TOS/tos-desktop-environment