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You're absolutely spot on here. Look at the aewm project (a good reference implementation of an ICCCM compliant window manager), and then look at how many derivatives it has:

aewm++, alloywm, evilwm, maewm, Oroborus, phluid, Sapphire, swm, Clementine, WindowLab, YeahWM, Spook, wimpwm

Some of these are genuinely innovative but how many of them would exist if their authors had had to reimplement everything from scratch?

uhh...alloywm

also check out: a newer one

It, too, is based on aewm. alloywm also has the same functionality as evilwm when it comes to moving windows using alt+[vi keys]. Its focus model is awry for now, but if you want to help me out with that, then be my guest. The newer one supports dockapps.

Use it if you want real titlebars. ;x Don't use it if you want configurability that measures up to what major window managers provide.

Here's a screenshot inspired by this discussion.

Fair enough. :) Here it is. Had to jump through several hoops to get to it (such as HTTP version discrepencies, etc).

Did ya think I was lying? And I didn't say it would be pretty, either. :)

ROX is one of the main elements of my Linux distribution, since the appdirs mechanism is the most flawless I've ever seen (sources at http://phatboydesigns.net/devel/0sys/0sys.tar.bz2, 360K or so download). I'm particularly interested in the potential it has to being a killer file manager on small devices.

(Shameless plug) For those of you who are too lazy to get PyGTK or can't have it, check out my Linux distribution's souces--There are some rather interesting goodies in desk/ written in Bourne shell, using some of my own Gtk+ apps as a scriptable replacement to the PyGTK-based ROX library. Warning: My distribution is a little sparse on documentation, but there are manual pages in there for some things.

hackiis (gain a shell, w00t!)

execmd (Run a command)

my default.ida (give the NT/2k slackers a good show)

Not much explanation is needed for hackiis, other than the fact that it probes a given host for the Unicode directory traversal weakness, checks for root.exe, checks for nc.exe, uploads it from a given FTP server, and gains a shell. (please edit hackiis). My default.ida will attempt to point whomever views it to goatse.cx (Change it if ya want, I couldn't think of anything else, hehe). Also change the $log variable to match your setup.

For some, it has a high lameness factor, but after several days of seeing my logs grow past the 1MB mark, I felt like taking advantage of it. Malicious? Not in my book. But highly entertaining in a sick, twisted way.

hackiis (gain a shell, w00t!)

execmd (Run a command)

my default.ida (give the NT/2k slackers a good show)

Not much explanation is needed for hackiis, other than the fact that it probes a given host for the Unicode directory traversal weakness, checks for root.exe, checks for nc.exe, uploads it from a given FTP server, and gains a shell. (please edit hackiis). My default.ida will attempt to point whomever views it to goatse.cx (Change it if ya want, I couldn't think of anything else, hehe). Also change the $log variable to match your setup.

For some, it has a high lameness factor, but after several days of seeing my logs grow past the 1MB mark, I felt like taking advantage of it. Malicious? Not in my book. But highly entertaining in a sick, twisted way.

hackiis (gain a shell, w00t!)

execmd (Run a command)

my default.ida (give the NT/2k slackers a good show)

Not much explanation is needed for hackiis, other than the fact that it probes a given host for the Unicode directory traversal weakness, checks for root.exe, checks for nc.exe, uploads it from a given FTP server, and gains a shell. (please edit hackiis). My default.ida will attempt to point whomever views it to goatse.cx (Change it if ya want, I couldn't think of anything else, hehe). Also change the $log variable to match your setup.

For some, it has a high lameness factor, but after several days of seeing my logs grow past the 1MB mark, I felt like taking advantage of it. Malicious? Not in my book. But highly entertaining in a sick, twisted way.

As for me, I use CompactFlash cards to quickly swap OSes. Using a simple CF->IDE socket (http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm for the goatse.cx weary), and a 3.5" drive bay cover plate, I fashioned somewhat of a CompactFlash card slot. A 64MB CompactFlash card holds QNX, and an 8MB holds a small Linux distribution I hacked together long ago (http://www.phatboydesigns.net/mu2-embedded-2.3.4. tar.bz2). Too bad the IDE spec does not allow you to hot-swap (not that I would with a running box).
Sure, not as flexible, but it has plenty of coolness factor. I've also used the same Linux CompactFlash card in an mp3 player project I messed with last summer.

Quit bitching, and have a look at this: http://www.phatboydesigns.net/efdtt2.html (this is merely a cleaned up and syntax-highlighted version of the original efdtt.c, which can be found here, by Charles Hannum. This was mentioned in Slashback on March 15.)