feel free to list other window managers you’ve used.
I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.
I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.
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i3 and sway
XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.
I prefer the way XMonad handles multimonitor workspaces, but left for Sway due to wayland support.
need to give it a try. I’m stuck in the past times lol
I haven’t used XMonad in a long time, but it was my go-to for a few years. It was solid. The main issue is that you configure it in Haskell, and I don’t know Haskell.
Same here, but I’m about ready to accept Wayland… Seems like sway is the best option?
i3 all the way
Sorry to be the boring i3 user but it’s a rock solid TWM. Plus I am using the autotiling mod and now it’s even better :D
This is the way.
Sway, but single window capture and the animations make hyprland very tempting…
HYPRLAND !
Need to figure out making it work with nvidia 😭
I don’t have any problem with hyprland on Nvidia, I didn’t have to tweak anything, it worked out of the box, I just installed it on Archcraft.
Here are my dot files https://github.com/visnudeva/dot-files
Works fine here. I migrated from Sway to Hyprland and it just worked. For Sway I had to work around some frustrating niggles but nothing so far for Hyprland. I use a MSI laptop with a 2070Maxq hybrid graphics setup. The performance of Wolfenstein New Order shows the nvidia is working ;-)
i3 is what I’ve been using the past few years. I’ve tried others, but I always end back up with i3 as I’ve found nothing else to be as simple and efficient for my workflow, with 12 workspaces across 2 monitors.
i3 until the day I die
Can you list some QoL mods for i3? I have been using autotiling for the last few months and it’s great.
Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS… I love how it combines tiling and stacking. Sure I could use workspaces instead of stacks, but with stacks… I can use both!
I’ve also used EXWM and am going to give it another whirl after I upgrade to emacs 28 with native comp
Does this support independent workspaces on each monitor? That’s what kept me from using i3 on Plasma :(
Not sure if this counts as a tiling window manager, but I spend most of my time in emacs in full screen mode. I can create, delete, resize, and swap my windows.
I’m not sure my solution counts either - I just use quicktile with default KDE, because it has the tiling bits that I need and the config file was simple enough that I didn’t have to spend a whole day setting it up. I need working memory for other things besides keyboard shortcuts.
Starting with i3 as my first, i tried a bunch of different ones. Xmonad and Qtile were the ones i liked the most but Qtile was buggy and Xmonad while working was super confusing to configure with haskell.
Also tried AwesomeWM, it felt a bit buggy to me in terms of window handling and DWM was just too complicated to patch and even with patches it was too basic
Ended up going back to i3, and then moved over to Sway.
I tried i3 back in 2019 and I’ve been using it ever since on my desktop.
I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice
I really like dwm. It doesn’t seem too popular so maybe the other ones are better but it was the first one I tried so the others feel weird to me. I like the idea behind suckless in general though.
I started with for a bit awm, however i am giving qtile a try since im learning how to code python so good practice.
LeftWM, because it’s a really nice community to get involved with, and i like rust so i contributed a bit to the project
