#tilingwm — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tilingwm, aggregated by home.social.
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Changing the font color on my status bar is honestly, the most exciting thing that I've done to my #Qtile config in like 10 years.
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Sway 1.12 introduce supporto HDR10, cattura singole finestre e nuove funzioni Wayland per desktop Linux moderni. #Linux #Wayland #SwayWM #HDR10 #OpenSource #LinuxDesktop #TilingWM
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Hyprland 0.55 rivoluziona il compositor Wayland con Lua per config flessibili e layout su misura. Perfetto per chi ama personalizzare Linux! #Hyprland #Wayland #Linux #LuaConfig #TilingWM
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@wyatt Firefox 149 adds Split View, which I understand as a multi-document interface (MDI) with a rudimentary tiling window manager. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/split-view-firefox
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My imagination:🙊
In future,
any terminal, browser, terminal multiplexers, window managers all will have a common UX pattern like
1) Vertical or horizontal tabs
2) tiling, scrollable tiling(like niri)
etc etc for a similar UX for easier engagement and management.Taking the features of one from the other will bring this soon❤️
#uiux #uxdesign #Browser #terminal #Terminalmultiplexer #windowmanager #tilingwm #tiling
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Dash to Dock just broke after the recent update, auto-hide doesn't always work.
Quite annoying when the dock covers up the bottom of windows. But whatever, I uninstalled it.
I plan to move to the tiling WM world anyways in the summer (because I want auto-tiling, which is only available on GNOME, KDE and COSMIC among the DEs afaik, but all will be Wayland-only soon, and I still need X11 because of a few minor things, although there's Sonic DE but who knows how much time it will take to arrive to Debian Stable, and I don't want to distrohop, also, I noticed some lag on GNOME recently, and some freezing once or twice, maybe my laptop is aging. KDE isn't more lightweight either, COSMIC is lighter, but it isn't as mature yet, it may also get heavier later on, as more things will be added), when I'll have more time to configure stuff, research how to do stuff and set up everything how I want it to work, etc., so it's time to slowly transition to that workflow anyways. (Phew, what a long sentence lol)
I just use the built-in search of GNOME, press Super key and type the name of the program, the same way I'll probably do on a tiling WM.
Actually I'll might also change my habits to hold Super key to drag windows, instead of grabbing their header.
It's like when Windows users are told to try out programs which are also available on Linux, before actually switching to Linux lol.
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Been using #Linux as my daily driver for almost two years now. Still interact with #windows at work from time to time, could never go back to it for my own computer though!
People need to understand that it can break from time to time, especially when you're using a Linux distro with a rolling release. if you're looking for something stable, try #debian.
If you're looking for something more 'bleeding edge', I can't recommend #arch enough (obligatory 'I'm using arch btw'). You'll get
- a great wiki with plenty of details, tutorials and explanations
- a big user base
- a system that is customizable to your needs
- a system that lets you run up-to-date softwareDon't expect smooth sailing though. you will learn a lot during installation and setup. things that 'just work' on windows, might need you to tinker/research a bit on Linux. Things will break with updates because software dependencies might break when using more recent and not-so-battletested software.
but it's a learning curve you wouldn't want to miss IMO. You'll need a weekend or so to set things up in an efficient way for you.
I recommend checking out the various Desktop Environments available and see which one appeals to you. Been using #gnome #kde #xfce #hyprland and switched to #niri recently. It's just so efficient and the work flow is perfect for my needs.
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:crt_w_prompt: My #XMonad modal configuration works (after many hours of work). A few small adjustments are still missing but they are manageable. Completely new operating concept - let's go!
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#Niri 25.08 comes with a new `spawn-sh` command. I’m using it to handle the monitor brightness on a log scale (way more useful than a linear one, especially by night):
XF86MonBrightnessUp {
spawn-sh "brightnessctl s $(($(brightnessctl g) * 2))";
}
XF86MonBrightnessDown {
spawn-sh "brightnessctl s $((($(brightnessctl g) + 1) / 2))";
}(Look, ’Ma ! No temp files !)
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Starting my keyboard-(almost-)only, tilingWM journey some years ago with Herbstluftwm over i3/sway, it has now been tweaked near to perfection with NIRI. Everything's extremely fast and responsive, check out this screencast!
As with Sway, I can handle KeepassXC-CLI shortcut integration with no plugins needed.
Pass has been a solid choice, too.
Qutebrowser is not the only one in town to handle vim-like keybinding (but a good one 😉).
And yeah, dystopian Fallout retro is the stylish way to go the KISS way 😍#linux #arch #niri #swaywm #i3wm #herbstluftwm #foss #floss #keepassxc #tilingwm #KeyboardOnly #cli #neovim #vim #qutebrowser #librewolf #pass
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Watched @BrodieOnLinux video on scrolling-tiling window managers and decided to give it a try, since I always seem to be running out of workspaces and/or forget where I put my windows.
So far it's...weird. I'm really not used to having my widows scroll off the screen/workspace, and yet still sort of being there.
Let's give it a couple of days though
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Okay fediverse, help me out here.
Find me a tiling window manager that allows me to configure a hard limit on the number of tiles per screen/workspace/whatever.
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CW: micro-rant about kde tiling
took a look at kde again after a few years, the tiling situation is Still Awful
literally just take pop shell from gnome and port it to a kwin script, it would be infinitely better than the native menu that takes forever to do anything with and crashes all the time or the scripts on the store that have like 5 layouts that you can't change at all
i really hate gnome, but i can't switch to kde without taking a huge hit to my productivity until there's a usable tiling script, i'm tempted to try and clone pop shell myself even though i would have to learn two different shell extension apis to do it
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#riverwm #tilingwm #tilingwaylandcompositor #linux
I have been using river as my window manager for a while now so thought I would share my thoughts.
I am really enjoying it, it feels much closer to xmonad than hyprland did which I like and it runs mostly smoothly. I love the way that it handles multi-headed setups for the most part and the way it is configured is refreshing for a window manager.
On my desktop, I have 2 monitors and river lets each monitor have its own set of tags which is nice.
I have yet to make good use of the tag feature and for the most part have been treating the tags like workspaces. This doesn't cause too many issues but tags come with some extra restrictions that make it less ideal if you are only using them the way you would workspaces. Maybe these can be ironed out but I don't know a solution.
I have been using the tag system more on my laptop than on my desktop probably because it only has 1 screen. On my desktop, if I want to have 1 program open and rotate between 1 or 2 programs open next to it, I can have the main program open in my main monitor and my second monitor can be used to rotate between the other programs that I want to have open next to it.
On the laptop this isn't possible but I have found the tag system to be useful for this. I can have tag 1 focused, say on emacs, and when I want I can focus a second or third tag with lecture slides, a browser or something else. I can also put a floating window with a video on one of my tags and then focus that tag with whatever other tag I am currently using so that I can keep the floating window with me as I move around my system.
As for using the tags like workspaces, it works for the most part but I have noticed some quirks. I am unable to jump to a window using rofi. This is likely hard to implement as a window could be on multiple tags and there is no good way to decide which tag to focus. Maybe a way it could be implemented is to instead have the currently focused tag/s added to the window.
When using multiple monitors, you can't drag a floating window onto another monitor and so you have to use the keyboard shortcut which isn't too much of an issue. When you move a window to another monitor, instead of moving it to the currently focused tags on that monitor, it moves it to the tags matching the ones it occupied on the previous monitor. This isn't an issue per se, just something that was counterintuitive to how I thought it should work.
There have been 1 or 2 minor issues with hidpi support for some apps but I don't think they are necessarily rivers fault. One example is with element messenger. When I enabled 2x scaling, instead of scaling the app, it instead shrunk the size of the window. River seemed to think it was normal size though as other windows moved around it as if it was taking up the normal space and I had to click where UI elements would have been if it was taking up the normal space.
Overall I have been enjoying it a lot, and will continue using it for at least a few more months
