Community

There are couple of ways, how to reach Window Maker community.

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists are main point of contact, especially for development group which is quite small, and often tend to be pretty quiet for couple of weeks.

Listed below are the currently available Window Maker mailing lists. We have switched our list over to Google Groups.

Window Maker Developer List

The Window Maker developer list is aimed at developers and others interested in the inner workings of Window Maker.

• Web: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wmaker-dev
• Email: [email protected]
• Pre-Google Groups archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]

Window Maker User List

The Window Maker user list is aimed at the end user for questions, tips, suggestions and general discussion.

• Web: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wmaker-user
• Email: [email protected]
• Pre-Google Groups archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]

Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Please see the Google Groups documentation.

Etiquette

The following rules of etiquette are to be followed when posting to any of the lists:

• Do not top post.
• Use of excessive quoting in E-mail replies is frowned upon.
• HTML messages and non-text attachments will be rejected.
• Please consider reading some of our documentation before posting questions to the lists. The Window Maker source code comes with a README, INSTALL, and NEWS file. There is also a FAQ to read.
• Please, please, and pretty please THINK before you post. Try very hard not to intentionally provoke others and cause flame-wars. We reserve the right to unsubscribe and ban any user that has a history of causing trouble.

IRC

There is a #windowmaker channel on libera.chat, which can be reached using appropriate client. Please be aware, that answers for questions asked there could take even couple of hours, since there are people from different time zones.

Reddit

There is also a group on Reddit dedicated to discussion on Window Maker.