A minimal desktop setup.
Info:
Recently switched from Guix to Void, mostly because it’s much simpler and I felt that my desktop didn’t need the complexity of Guix.
furycd001, 
I absolutely love how minimalist this looks…
therealjcdenton, What desktop?
ponik, Harakiri
GolfNovemberUniform, 10/10 distro and 10/10 setup. FWMs ftw
mccd, Yeah, I think Hikari combines the best of both. In the rare cases I need to tile, it has that capability but in most cases I have 1-2 windows and find it easier to work with them when the windows are smaller.
GolfNovemberUniform, Hmm how hard is it to configure and add window decorations? I might take a look at it if I can use it without key bindings
mccd, Configuration is straight forward with a file but you won’t be able to use it without keybindings.
GolfNovemberUniform, Then it’s not for me. Thanks for the answer though
Newchair, I would use it but on my hardware its buggy and unmaintained.
atomkarinca, is hikari good as a floating wm?
mccd, I think it’s very underrated. It has some features I really appreciate:
- Tiling features when needed, W+l s tiles everything when I need it.
- Great shortcuts, like go to next busy desktop, maximize height of window
- Holding win reveals the title of the window.
- Cursor follows active window
It matches my workflow very well.
dsemy, Does it work well for you? I used cwm on X11 (fairly similar to Hikari), but last time I tried Hikari on Void I kept running into weird issues.
mccd, Yeah I’d say so.
The only issues I’ve had is that pinch-to-zoom and fractional scaling does not work (but easily solvable).
648573r, It looks like hikari developement has stalled a bit, are you using a fork or something like that? Great setup btw:)
mccd, (edited ) Thanks! Hmm, could be that it has stalled, though it’s working great for me so I don’t really know if it’s a problem. I’m using the main repo.
cerement, 
“my desktop didn’t need the complexity of Guix”
so … Alpine next?
mccd, Maybe, not sure how musl compares to glibc. I quite like Runit and xbps though so I don’t feel like I’m in a rush.
![[Hikari] May Desktop (Void)](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/8c944c34-4834-4bf5-b90c-2771d7ab850e.png){kind=link}
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