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Need to figure out making it work with nvidia 😭
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 ;-)
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.
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.
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.
i3 aswell, its great.
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.
Sway, but single window capture and the animations make hyprland very tempting...
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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.
XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.
Same here, but I'm about ready to accept Wayland... Seems like sway is the best option?
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.
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 usually use tiling add-ons for Gnome or KDE. So pop-shell or bismuth.
LeftWM, because it's a really nice community to get involved with, and i like rust so i contributed a bit to the project
@cyclohexane for me it was and always will be bspwm. Once I had it configured it was the coziest of cozies.
i3 is the one I keep coming back to
DWM due to it's suckless nature
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
I tried i3 back in 2019 and I've been using it ever since on my desktop.
Recently I have been using river. It's extremely easy to configure via a shell script, and it's very fast and stable. It's another dwm clone
It's not exactly a dwm clone, it's way better than that. It takes all the best parts from dwm and bspwm, and I've been loving it so far
The binary split tree is bspwm's best and most important feature imo. I'm sad river doesn't follow that model.
My heart still belongs to enlightenment/e17 but I've been using i3 for the past few years, and then hyprland for the last 4 months or so. It's working out well.
Man e16 was the shit. If it played nice with hot-plugging monitors, I'd still use it today. It had some awesome themes, too.
What's e17 like? I've truthfully never used it, though I daily Terminology as a terminal emulator.
Ahhh, e17 - I've got memories of building it from either cvs or svn at the time as soon as it was announced by rasterman on Slashdot.
e17 was my daily driver for a long time. It looked very pretty, before compositing was even a thing on the desktop, all without sacrificing performance. The biggest downside was that it wrote its configs as binary blobs which frequently broke as new development releases came out.
Wow... managed to find the original post from 2004. This is slashdot news story that got me started with e17 nearly 20 years ago now.
Today I use Plasma, but if I need a tiling wm I use awesome. It's so great and customizable. If you're fine with Lua, is easy to config.
I use sway because when I came back after a long break, it seemed to be the one to go with. I kind of miss awesome, though.
EXWM. I am a longtime Emacs user so merging the concepts of Emacs buffers and X windows is a huge benefit. Only one set of keybindings to worry about, all of my Emacs window management stuff works for X windows too. One less external dependency to worry about too. In a new environment (like when starting a new job etc) as long as I have my Emacs config I am good to go.
I'll have to give it a try again. I played with it a while back, but I was happy with GNOME at the time. What underlying version of emacs are you using? native comp?
EXWM is not particularly picky about Emacs versions or performance. I used to run with nativecomp but ended up turning it off since I value stability over performance. (nativecomp was pretty stable but I had some occasional issues)
The biggest caveat is that you must be very comfortable with whatever Emacs buffer/window management setup you use since you will be relying on that even more.
I found getting to grips with window dedication was a great boon, and pays off in Emacs in general.
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PaperVM. Works under gnome and has everything i need
I used suckless ecosystem for 5+ years, but I wanted to use Wayland so now I'm transitioning into Sway and holymoly how fast and easy it is. So simple to configure and written in C.
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DWM
I've tried AwesomeWM but couldn't get anything going with it really.
I then moved on to Material Shell (yes that's a Gnome Extension) and it brought enough to really make me want to dig in more.
Now I'm slowly working on a Sway configuration on my Fedora 38 machine. Can't work in it yet, but unlike my attempt at AwesomeWM...I'm actually making progress on getting things setup. My 4 monitors were configured fairly easily, but now I need to figure out why dmenu isn't working to launch applications. Could be on my end since I'm using a Moonlander keyboard with a custom DVORAK profile.
Qtile has been great for me for a long time, but since recently I've tried Hyprland. Wayland works pretty decently nowadays, and Hyprland is a great example of that.
I started with for a bit awm, however i am giving qtile a try since im learning how to code python so good practice.
I've been very happy with hyprland since it's the only Wayland TWM that allows a great experience with nvidia.
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