Today is 12 days since I installed #PaperWM out of curiosity. On a laptop it's simply amazing. On a multi-monitor desktop sometimes it gets in the way, but overall it helps keeping some order.
After a couple of hours of initial adaptation and a few rounds of customization of the shortcut keys, it really helps me staying focused.
@zmoog if you ever find yourself on a Linux desktop, this is your kind of things.
In my ongoing transition from Mac to #Linux I have been trying to avoid just setting up something like a Mac, but worse. So I have been trying some more radical things, like the tiling window manager i3, but it was a bit much for me.
Then I came accross scrolling tiled window mangers and, oh my! This is how things should be done. There are a few out there, but I'm using #PaperWM https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Going back to my Mac with higgledy-piggledy windows feels outright barborous now.
Just got my upgrade to #hyprland 4.8 working. A bunch of capitalization errors and having some things shift to /usr/bin were hanging me up for a while.
I considered moving to GNOME with the PaperWM extension but after using it for a while I found that I really preferred a true dynamic window manager. I felt like it was too easy to lose track of my windows with #GNOME and #PaperWM. Really it strengthened my will to get Hyprland running again.
Very much liking #paperwm, a scrolling tiling WM extension for GNOME: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
Historically I haven't gotten on well with tiling WMs, so I'm surprised at how well the scrolling kind work for me.
@bearstech Ou #PaperWM... https://lwn.net/Articles/1005332/
Je reste sur #i3 mais essaierai un jour quand Wayland sera stable sur mes machines.
Trying out #PaperWM. It's pretty buggy, especially with multiple monitors, but it's a really interesting window management paradigm!
@CleoMenezesJr @kramo are there workspaces in that video? I've been using #PaperWM and really liking it.
Interessant!
Gibt's ein #hyprland plugin, um die gleiche Scroll-Funktionalität zu erlangen, wie es #niri hat.
#hyprniri !
The other change on the hardware side of my dev (but also gaming) setup was getting 40” Dell 5K super ultra wide (21:9) monitor (U4025QW). Extra screen estate is nice for productivity (I switched from 16:9 4K), it has lots of connectivity, the 120hz refresh rate makes #PaperWM buttery smooth, and the desktop looks super sharp at 125% scaling on #Wayland. The curved surface is sth I was worried about, but turned out it’s a subtle curve and not distracting at all. Some say it’s an endgame monitor…
Last change on the software side of my dev setup was to start using #PaperWM. It’s so awesome! It’s fast, smooth, has exactly what I need from a window manager, and it’s rock solid. In the past I’ve been using #awesomewm, #xmonad, #i3wm and while I liked them all better than classic floating WMs, only PaperWM feels exactly like what I always needed. And, on a 120hz display its quick animations look fantastic.
I recently replace my 27" 4K monitor with a 34" wide-screen as the wider screen better suits my way of working. At the same time I installed the #paperwm extension for #gnome and it really makes the window management in Gnome suit my workflow a lot better. Might event try out a tiling WM again some day :)
Installed the #PaperWM extension for #Gnome today. It converts your desktop into an infinity-scrollable desktop where new tiles spawn to the left, right, top, bottom, whatever you configure. For people, who like to use #i3 or other #tiling #windowmanager, I highly recommend to try out PaperWM for Gnome. Truly fascinated by this idea.
I have been using #karousel on #KDE for several weeks, and yesterday shifted to #PaperWM on #GNOME. Took some time to configure things like I wanted, but it's much smoother than karousel (and fancier).
Overall, I like the scrolling tiling pane paradigm. I realized I've been manually doing something like this using workspaces with 1-2 windows per workspace with two keybindings - one to change workspace and one to switch windows inside a workspace.
IDK, I wouldn't.
But... I did anyway.
And now I don't have the time/focus to go back. #GNOME is pretty decent out of the box these days.
(Although some of the extensions like #PaperWM or #DashToDock, which are meant to make it even more awesome, can sometimes be kinda janky. PaperWM layout would be great without the GNOME baggage)
Anyway, I miss my tiling WM days! It's prevented snoopers from going through my computer left unlocked, at least once - can GNOME do that? 😁
Since I'm continuing my #PaperWM (and to a lesser degree #wezterm) experiment, I made a couple keyboard layout tweaks to give its productivity a fair chance. E.g., mapped left and right arrow keys on a corner on the default layer of my keyboard because horizontal spatial navigation is fundamental in PaperWM.
Started using #PaperWM today. It adds a spatial desktop layer over the existing GNOME desktop environment. Each workspace is a scrollable tiling space, growing horizontally as you open application windows. There's also a way to exempt applications from tiling (i.e., scratch layer).
Usual tiling WMs never worked for me. However, as PaperWMs UX doesn't seem (so far) to have any annoying bugs/features, and feels smooth & responsive, I can see myself using this long term. 🤞
