Hmmm this looks interesting but I've not yet tried it a #TilingWM called Maomaowm with the followings features.
In addition to inheriting dwl's core features and common functions found in other compositors, maomao also supports unique functionalities from other projects. These include:
- Hyprland’s animations,
- Sway’s additional protocols,
- Labwc’s text input method,
- Niri’s scrolling layout.
However, these are implemented in a deliberately lightweight and simplistic manner to avoid bloated code.
https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/maomaowm
#Wayland #WindowManager #DWL
#tilingwm
Mit den KooL-Hyprland-Dotfiles lässt sich ein vollständig eingerichteter, durchgestylter Tiling-Desktop auf Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, NixOS und openSUSE in wenigen Minuten installieren. Inklusive Waybar, Eww, Pyprland und Rofi. Vorkonfiguriert, modular und anpassbar.
https://linuxundich.de/gnu-linux/kools-hyprland-dotfiles-gericeter-desktop-auf-knopfdruck/
#Hyprland #LinuxDesktop #Wayland #Dotfiles #ArchLinux #TilingWM
#TIL about a window manager called #Herbstluftwm. (thanks, j!)
Herbstluftwm. it's german for "find your meta key", i believe.
edited to whack wayland hashtag
Tiling window managers have been around since the early days of graphical interfaces. Xerox PARC laid the groundwork in the 1980s, and even Windows 1.0 experimented with tiling before switching to overlapping windows.
In the Linux world, tiling never really left. It re-emerged in the early 2000s with tools like ratpoison and dwm, evolving into modern favorites like i3, bspwm, and Wayland-native Sway. For many users, especially developers and power users, tiling offers a more efficient, keyboard-driven workflow that stacking WMs just can't match.
#TilingWM #i3WM #Sway #LinuxWorkflow #UnixPhilosophy #PowerUsers
#riverwm #tilingwm #tilingwaylandcompositor #linux
I have been using river as my window manager for a while now so thought I would share my thoughts.
I am really enjoying it, it feels much closer to xmonad than hyprland did which I like and it runs mostly smoothly. I love the way that it handles multi-headed setups for the most part and the way it is configured is refreshing for a window manager.
On my desktop, I have 2 monitors and river lets each monitor have its own set of tags which is nice.
I have yet to make good use of the tag feature and for the most part have been treating the tags like workspaces. This doesn't cause too many issues but tags come with some extra restrictions that make it less ideal if you are only using them the way you would workspaces. Maybe these can be ironed out but I don't know a solution.
I have been using the tag system more on my laptop than on my desktop probably because it only has 1 screen. On my desktop, if I want to have 1 program open and rotate between 1 or 2 programs open next to it, I can have the main program open in my main monitor and my second monitor can be used to rotate between the other programs that I want to have open next to it.
On the laptop this isn't possible but I have found the tag system to be useful for this. I can have tag 1 focused, say on emacs, and when I want I can focus a second or third tag with lecture slides, a browser or something else. I can also put a floating window with a video on one of my tags and then focus that tag with whatever other tag I am currently using so that I can keep the floating window with me as I move around my system.
As for using the tags like workspaces, it works for the most part but I have noticed some quirks. I am unable to jump to a window using rofi. This is likely hard to implement as a window could be on multiple tags and there is no good way to decide which tag to focus. Maybe a way it could be implemented is to instead have the currently focused tag/s added to the window.
When using multiple monitors, you can't drag a floating window onto another monitor and so you have to use the keyboard shortcut which isn't too much of an issue. When you move a window to another monitor, instead of moving it to the currently focused tags on that monitor, it moves it to the tags matching the ones it occupied on the previous monitor. This isn't an issue per se, just something that was counterintuitive to how I thought it should work.
There have been 1 or 2 minor issues with hidpi support for some apps but I don't think they are necessarily rivers fault. One example is with element messenger. When I enabled 2x scaling, instead of scaling the app, it instead shrunk the size of the window. River seemed to think it was normal size though as other windows moved around it as if it was taking up the normal space and I had to click where UI elements would have been if it was taking up the normal space.
Overall I have been enjoying it a lot, and will continue using it for at least a few more months
Just discovered https://store.KDE.org/p/1619690 , a kwin script to prevent window overlap. Wonderful, exactly what I need. Just to see it has not been ported to plasma 6 😭
#kde #plasma6 #tilingwm
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The question is when was the last time I had a desktop…
#tilingwm
i have more #ux opinions on window managers and applications reimplementing tiling in their own guis, but i haven't mulled over it that much yet so... that's a future thread. but essentially i believe, modern window managers are too specialized, forcing application developers and gui toolkit developers to compensate with subpar, restrictive and incosistent interfaces.
this applies to sidebars, panels, modals (though that often does leverage WMs), and "windows" in #emacs (not frames), and whatever #tmux (or gnu screen) is doing. i understand historically why this was the case, these applications originally took over the entire monitor, and thus had to reimplement tiling and window management. but why do modern applications copy this?
i think the answer is restrictive window managers, and the primarily cause of issues being floating window managers. most of the window management in-app is tiling stuff. but i haven't thought or researched too much into this, so i'm not sure.
That said, the fact that I want this in the first place means that I'm well and truly onto something for my workflow. The fact that windows are actually Good enough to manage that I don't want tabs anymore...
IMO the purpose of tabs is to not deal with the clumsy floating window setup. It's like a fullscreen multi-desktop layout, but only in your browser. What a terrible default. Tiling is okay, scrolling is fantastic. #PleaseDisagree
#linux #technology #FLOSS #FOSS #tilingwm #ilovefreesoftware #windows #freesoftware #kdeplasma #kde #hyprland
RE: https://kitty.social/notes/a2kx3e0p31f300ld
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Hey fellow techies, I'm thinking of switching off of Hyprland to a different tiling window manager. I have a couple requirements:
1. It must use Wayland
2. It must support window swallowing or some similar functionality
Worst case scenario, I'll just switch back to GNOME but I'd rather not resort to that
Feel free to suggest something in the replies :neocat_cool:
I want to visit the alternate universe where Steve Jobs either got the boot or moved on several years early from Apple, and Jef Raskin's ideas prevailed over the Macintosh team.
I'd love to see what a fully-realized Raskin machine would look like.
I'm sure that keyboard/CLI warriors and tiling window manager aficionados would love it.
#AlternateUniverse #JefRaskin #Apple #SteveJobs #TilingWM #CLI #Apple #AlternateTimeline #AU
It's such a first world problem, but ever since I've started using a tiling WM as my daily driver, I get so confused when floating windows in other systems hide behind each other. I'm so not used to that happening anymore 😅
1 week using wayland so far. First time I have been able to use it for longer than 2 day before getting fed up. Maybe it is ready now. I will have to try it on my desktop to see if nvidia is still an issue though. Still thinking of switching back to X and coming back in another 3 months as there are still some growing pains. I will try to give it a solid chance first though.
(Also I know hyprland is controversial because of the creator. It’s just software to me though and I may try out river instead at some point)
#X #Wayland #Hyprland #tilingwm #linux #tilingwaylandcompositor
Tried #Krohnkite 's #Plasma 6 fork. https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite/
It's really good. Much less buggy than #Polonium.
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.
#linux #tilingwm #sxmo #xmonad #linuxphone
On Friday while doing a sign-off for a prac at uni. A tutor complimented me on my system. He was asking me about my text editor (emacs) and window manager (xmonad). He was running DWM.
I also showed him my phone and sxmo. He was very surprised that linux on mobile had functioning sms and calls.
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