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X11 tiling WMs (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS

Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don't want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU)

Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE)

I'm also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm already using sxhkd with dwm but it's probably underdeveloped. I want something like that above but with an additional hotkey to change send the active window to a workspace and then switch to that workspace but I haven't worked it up. I debated using a QMK tapdance feature for that but have never switched to my QMK keyboard.

I guess to get at my real question, dwm (or maybe more accurately some of the applications I run) generate windows in weird ways. Zoom for instance doesn't generate notifications for things like unstable wifi, but rather tiles a new window for 2 seconds which is REALLY annoying. Also the window swallowing feature is pretty finicky for things like (n)vim+latex in continuous compiling situations.

It's all fixable... But it's just a massive headache since (on my work pc) changing a dwm config means logging out and back in to see the results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would need to go back to my old dwm config file but I think what you're looking for is this patch. In bspwm this is achieved with the "follow" option as shown in my example.

To restart dwm without login out and back in you'll need this in your .xinitrc:

while :; do
    ssh-agent dwm
done

Then whenever you kill dwm with kill -HUP $(pidof -s dwm) it will actually be reloaded. Seems like there's also 2 patches to do that now (note that they both mention the above method as well).
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/restartsig/
https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/selfrestart/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@dream_weasel Did that help?