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.

  • kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.

    • whoopingsneeze@fedia.io
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Same here, but I’m about ready to accept Wayland… Seems like sway is the best option?

  • ScottE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • pyska@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    i3 gang rise up!

    I’ve only tried i3 and it just works, so I stuck with it. After learning the hotkeys it never seems to get in the way (at least for my usage). Riced it a bit. Then some polybar sparkled in there. A wallpaper. What more can a guy want?

      • snamellit@fedia.io
        1·
        2 years ago

        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 ;-)

      • visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        I don’t have any problem with hyprland on Nvidia, I didn’t have to tweak anything, it worked out of the box, I just installed it on Archcraft.

  • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

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

    • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      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
      • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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 fork exists! 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.

  • PapaTorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I really like dwm. It doesn’t seem too popular so maybe the other ones are better but it was the first one I tried so the others feel weird to me. I like the idea behind suckless in general though.

  • NateSwift@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice

  • fabhian_arkantos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Today I use Plasma, but if I need a tiling wm I use awesome. It’s so great and customizable. If you’re fine with Lua, is easy to config.

  • Word of Mouth@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS… I love how it combines tiling and stacking. Sure I could use workspaces instead of stacks, but with stacks… I can use both!

    I’ve also used EXWM and am going to give it another whirl after I upgrade to emacs 28 with native comp