So Hyprland is buggy, we knew this. So I can't use it at the moment. So I tried out qtile wayland again. And while it's stable, it is still so far away.
What's a guy gotta do to get a stable, fully functional, wayland compositor that isn't Sway?
@thelinuxcast@stefur I think it's also worth mentioning that there have been a lot of changes since the last real #riverwm update, so I highly recommend building from git or waiting for the 0.30 release, which is apparently soon.
Also check out the community-layouts on the wiki, which really makes river what it is. I've used stacktile for the longest time, but recently have been trying/using wideriver.
Also yes, this is the first time I bothered to do a proper UEFI install. Usually I was too lazy to update my setup cheat-sheet. But I got curious. I now have an almost flicker free boot thanks to systemd-boot and plymouth! Also autologin with greetd (there already is a LUKS password prompt, so no need for a login screen), so the only flicker I get is one modeset before #riverwm starts and the brief period of blue before my init is executed and changes the background colour.
@echoraptor@SebinNyshkim I am using #riverwm with an ultrawide monitor. It is usually too large if I have just one or two windows open, but for that reason I configured my layout to have an optional outer padding. Also three or four windows side-by-side work well with all available space
I once made a hacky bash wrapper script for #riverwm and rivertile(per-tag & cycle-tags). Mainly to see if I could and have it be a backup. I never expected to need it. Did a fresh install on a new to me pc today and a couple things that I use for river are currently unavailable, due to what is happening with #sourcehut and #codeberg.
I have the sources available on another pc, but it's nice to have a script you made, even if hacky, help out in a pinch.
@brokenix was a dwm user years ago, wasn't impressed by the "our software release model is a buncha patches on a wiki"-thing.
These days I use and contribute to #riverwm, where we plan on having some sort of window management protocol in the future. Even with the comparatively limited layout protocol it's already a very good experience.
Automatic circular layout! Just 11 lines of scheme with riverguile. It's so nice being able to just play around with fun ideas. In my other layout generator, stacktile, this would have taken me at least an hour of wrangling boilerplate. With riverguile in scheme just a few minutes.
Working on riverguile and playing around with my layout and it just hit me that I can just (map (lambda ...) (iota view-count)) instead of using a recursive iterator. How has this not occurred to me before?
Just got #RiverWM rebuilt from Got on my #VoidLinux#ZFS adventure and looked out of the window to see the sky with oily like clouds. This picture just doesn't do it justice. #Aberdeenshire#Scotland
People who have moved from X11 to Wayland: what are the benefits that you have experienced from using Wayland over X11 and what issues have you had to deal with? #X11#Wayland#Linux
@thezerobit The only real issues have been learning what WM/DE use Wayland and what X apps have Wayland equivalents. Also under Wayland the WM is the compositor whereas in X you ran a separate compositor for things like shadows and blur.
The benefits for me is that it just works and is secure and constantly developing. FWIW I use #RiverWm and have used #Qtile under Wayland.
@duhdugg Sort of I'm using a 32" screen via HDMI and the secondary is my ThinkPads display. I also use #Yambar as it works well with #RiverWM which starts via a script that counts the displays before starting n instances.
Is there a reason to learn #Zig at this point? I know it aims to be a replacement for #C, but is there any actual practical use for it at the moment? (other than fun of course)