--- title: We're back on the window manager :D | daily.dev description: A live coding session building a taskbar for a custom Wayland window manager written in Zig. The developer integrates a self-written D-Bus library to enable... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-re-back-on-the-window-manager-d-zjlffafcf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We're back on the window manager :D | daily.dev og:description: A live coding session building a taskbar for a custom Wayland window manager written in Zig. The developer integrates a self-written D-Bus library to enable... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-re-back-on-the-window-manager-d-zjlffafcf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZjLffAfcf.png og:image:alt: We're back on the window manager :D og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # We're back on the window manager :D **[sphaerophoria](https://daily.dev/sources/sphaerophoria)** · 107 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live coding session building a taskbar for a custom Wayland window manager written in Zig. The developer integrates a self-written D-Bus library to enable IPC between the window manager and a separate taskbar application. The session covers adding D-Bus as a submodule dependency, wiring up an event loop handler, defining a D-Bus service XML interface with a GetWindowList method, and fixing multiple bugs in the D-Bus serialization code including array length calculation and pointer handling. By the end, the window manager successfully responds to D-Bus calls and returns a hardcoded window list, with groundwork laid for reading real window titles from Wayland XDG toplevel state. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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