System Crafters Live! - November 19, 2021

Watch the recording on YouTube!

¶Updates

• EmacsConf is next weekend! https://emacsconf.org/2021/schedule/
• Next week is Black Friday: https://store.systemcrafters.net

¶Tools for Building a Lisp-Focused System

¶Window Manager

• EXWM: Emacs X Window Manager
• StumpWM: written with Common Lisp (Phundrak's config)
• Mahogany: Stump-like for Wayland
• AwesomeWM: Lisp-style config with Fennel
• Sawfish: configured in a Lisp-style language
• Guile-WM: a window manager "toolkit" for Guile Scheme
• CLFSWM: Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager
• Others on the Common Lisp wiki

¶Config Management

• GNU Guix, both system and home directory
• Org Mode

¶Shell

• CLASH: CLisp as Shell
• shcl - SH in Common Lisp
• rash - A shell written in Racket
• closh - Bash-like shell based on Clojure
• babashka - Clojure-based shell scripting
• cl-launch - Shell scripting with Common Lisp
• scsh - Scheme Shell
• eshell - Emacs Shell
• lush - Lisp Universal Shell
• Ambrevar, using a Lisp REPL as shell

¶Service Daemon

• GNU Shepherd - Guile Scheme based service/init system
• systemE - Manage services with Emacs for the memes

¶Cron Jobs

• GNU mcron
• cl-cron
• Maybe also in Emacs Lisp with run-at-time?

¶Status Bars

• bliss - Common Lisp status bar for dwm
• StumpWM modeline - Useful if you use StumpWM
• exlybar - Emacs-based status bar

¶Key Bindings

• kmonad - Advanced keybinding manager with Lisp-style config (Gavin's KMonad video)
• xbindkeys - Another key mapping tool configured with Guile Scheme (example)

¶Web Browser

• Nyxt - Common Lisp-based web browser, super powerful
• nomad - Browser written with Guile Scheme
• eaf-browser - Emacs Application Framework browser
• eww - Emacs Web Wowser, text based browser built into Emacs

¶Lisp Machines

• https://interlisp.org/