If you are an experienced Linux user, there is a good chance that you are using a tiling window manager. They are a great choice for anyone that needs something minimal, fast, and customizable. Plus, Tiling window managers have a lot of variety to them. Whether they are written in different languages, tile differently, or even have different features, there are many tiling window managers that serve different purposes. However, this means that there are many tiling window managers that many people don’t know about, and to fix that, I am going to show you 5 of my favorite, less common tiling window manager. And hey, you might find one that you really like.
I’d love to switch to sway from i3. However, things like lock screen and screen saver, display sleep, etc, seem hard to figure out in a diy WM. Not to say those things weren’t hard to figure out in xorg world, but I’ve already invested the effort and I’m older and significantly lazier now.
My experience was the other way round: DIY in i3, bit in sway just copy-paste the example with sway-idle and all of that works out of the box. Try it out
I’d love to switch to sway from i3. However, things like lock screen and screen saver, display sleep, etc, seem hard to figure out in a diy WM. Not to say those things weren’t hard to figure out in xorg world, but I’ve already invested the effort and I’m older and significantly lazier now.
Same boat, there are still too many things i rely on with xorg to do the switch yet to sway.
My experience was the other way round: DIY in i3, bit in sway just copy-paste the example with sway-idle and all of that works out of the box. Try it out