IF only Hyprland wouldn't freeze on me, I think I'd be very happy to stay with it. As is, it continues to freeze when I wake the computer up from sleep. Bug report filed, but until it is fixed, I'm once again on the lookout for another WM.
So far tonight I've tried river (got it installed, but wouldn't load), bspwm (maybe, but I don't care for the way it does workspaces), DWM (my build is broken so I'll need to start over), and then went back to hyprland.
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I know i wrote this to you already but xfce+xmonad is the tiling environment of the old linux curmudgeon who wants to be able to set it up in 10 minutes and never wory an update might change his workflow.
The xmonad page on hiw to make it work is literaly 11 years old and it still works.
@ja_herre kwin scripts are a mess on Plasma 6. And adding them is almost impossible the normal way. IDK how to go about doing it manually, though I'm sure it's not hard
@thelinuxcast Matt, what did you see that was lacking with workspaces in bspwm? A couple of tricks I use for managing them is using "%name% [%nwin%]" to display the number of windows for the workspace in polybar, which is usually enough, or rofi to switch directly to an application if toggling through them is not enough. Just curious.
@thelinuxcast But what specifically? Is it tags? Workspaces per monitor? Trying to figure out if it's a personal preference or some feature I missed in those other two. Do you discuss bspwm workspace shortcomings in one of your videos?
@sockpuppet5 I've talked about it before. But basically it's one set of workspaces shared between all the monitors. And they change to the monitor in focus. There's a hack that can makd bspwm do it but it doesn't work well. Nor does polybar do a great job with it.
@thelinuxcast bspwm is a very simple wm - it opens windows and places them.... if you have a big screen and 9 workspaces it's more than enough ... in case you need more features bspwm might not be for you but on the other hand it's pretty much finished software and in 5 years I've been using it I had no issues .... ofc on X11 you want picom (or similar) to avoid tearing and to get some extra stuff like blur or transparency
@n1 A window manager is a window manager. bspwm and dwm are the same in that account, both doing the same thing. DWM has fewer lines of code than bspwm but has a bar and manages the keybindings.
But just because one has a bar and the other doesn't, doesn't make their tasks any different. Both are tiling window managers. bspwm is functionally impotent without sxhkd.
@thelinuxcast river needs a config file wrote before it does anything. You can use the config in my dotfiles since it's pretty basic and the river github has some examples.
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