feel free to list other window managers you’ve used.

I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.

I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.

      • snamellit
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        Works fine here. I migrated from Sway to Hyprland and it just worked. For Sway I had to work around some frustrating niggles but nothing so far for Hyprland. I use a MSI laptop with a 2070Maxq hybrid graphics setup. The performance of Wolfenstein New Order shows the nvidia is working ;-)

  • @[email protected]
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    Starting with i3 as my first, i tried a bunch of different ones. Xmonad and Qtile were the ones i liked the most but Qtile was buggy and Xmonad while working was super confusing to configure with haskell.

    Also tried AwesomeWM, it felt a bit buggy to me in terms of window handling and DWM was just too complicated to patch and even with patches it was too basic

    Ended up going back to i3, and then moved over to Sway.

    • @vividspecter
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      I prefer the way XMonad handles multimonitor workspaces, but left for Sway due to wayland support.

    • whoopingsneeze
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      I haven’t used XMonad in a long time, but it was my go-to for a few years. It was solid. The main issue is that you configure it in Haskell, and I don’t know Haskell.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Not sure if this counts as a tiling window manager, but I spend most of my time in emacs in full screen mode. I can create, delete, resize, and swap my windows.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m not sure my solution counts either - I just use quicktile with default KDE, because it has the tiling bits that I need and the config file was simple enough that I didn’t have to spend a whole day setting it up. I need working memory for other things besides keyboard shortcuts.

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    i3 until the day I die

    Edit: Why? Because I love how easy it is to get working, it’s a nice balance between features and simplicity for me, and IPC features are great for some QoL plugins. Its configuration file format is simple enough, I like lua with wezterm and neovim but I don’t really see the point with a WM, I just need to see my windows when I want, the way I want, and to switch to others.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Can you list some QoL mods for i3? I have been using autotiling for the last few months and it’s great.

    • @[email protected]
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      I too would be interested to know what plugins you use.

      I love i3 and have used it for years and find myself fruitlessly using the most common keybinds in windows at work.

      But my gripes over i3 are:

      • If I don’t know the name of the command, say a specific settings window, etc - then I’m hosed if I need it.
      • It doesn’t come with a lock screen by default, you need a plugin for it
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        Here’s a list of plugins that may be useful:

        • kitti3: quake style dropdown terminal
        • tdrop: the same as kitti3, but I moved to wezterm due to kitty’s design choice and tdrop fits the bill, it’s also wm agnostic.
        • i3-volume: integrates with dunst for me to pop up volume status when I change volume via keybinds.
        • autotiling: A must have in my opinion. I seldom have more than 2 windows on a monitor, since I have two monitors and utilize other workspace, but there are times when I temporarily have multiple windows open and too lazy to group them into stacks or tabs.
        • i3expo: I heard people have success with this as an alt-tabber with visualization. I just use dmenu and have scripts for window switching.
        • wmfocus: quite useful if you have multiple monitors and multiple windows on each, instead of doing Super + h a few times to move to the left most window, I just use wmfocus and hop to it immediately.
        • i3-extras: I just found this, perhaps it’s of use.

        Regarding your gripe #1, I don’t quite understand? Do you mean you don’t know the command of a program to type into your terminal to launch?

        And gripe #2, if you mean i3lock, I’m okay with that, I like that i3 follows UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well, and because of that good i3lock forks exist! If it was baked into i3 then this might not be the case.

        For i3-lock, I currently use i3lock-fancy-rapid, it’s a weird name lol, but it is still dependent on the i3lock-color binary, which itself is a fork of i3lock.

  • Communist
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    Sway, but single window capture and the animations make hyprland very tempting…

    • @neoney
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      hyprland is worth it

  • @[email protected]
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    Sway with autotiling and a few nifty scripts (launch or focus and such) and Waybar. The combination of having scratchpads, sensible autotiling along with titlebars and the wonderful world of wayland is supreme.

  • @ScottE
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    i3 is what I’ve been using the past few years. I’ve tried others, but I always end back up with i3 as I’ve found nothing else to be as simple and efficient for my workflow, with 12 workspaces across 2 monitors.

    • @Onyros
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      I ran DWM 6.0.2 with (probably too many patches) for a long time, until I finally migrated to 6.4 and reduced the number of patches I was really using to about 6 or 7.

      My first tiling WM was Awesome, but even though I’d heard about DWM before, it took Awesome to take the plunge.

  • @eyolf
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    This is perhaps cheating, but after diving deep into the hardcore tiling mangers (ratpoison, wmii, xmonad), I grew softer and stayed in awesome for a while, but eventually I realised that since all I want from tiling anyway is the ability to quickly place two windows beside each other, I might as well go with a DM that does all the other stuff I want automatically (mounting, monitors, etc.), and since KDE is now good again, and coming along on the tiling side, that’s the tiling WM I’m using.

    Yes, I said I was cheating …!

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    Recently I have been using river. It’s extremely easy to configure via a shell script, and it’s very fast and stable. It’s another dwm clone

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s not exactly a dwm clone, it’s way better than that. It takes all the best parts from dwm and bspwm, and I’ve been loving it so far

      • CyclohexaneOPM
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        The binary split tree is bspwm’s best and most important feature imo. I’m sad river doesn’t follow that model.