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Comment by 👻 mediocregopher

Re: "Wanted: a step up from dwm..."

In: s/Linux

I've been using awesome wm forever, never looked back. My understanding is that it's essentially dwm with a Lua runtime strapped onto the front for configuration. Keyboard shortcuts for anything and everything, easy to customize, very lightweight.... it's just awesome

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Jan 12 · 4 weeks ago

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☕️ johan · Jan 12 at 06:59:

i can second awesomewm. Wayland had me switch to sway a few years ago but I was not happy to switch initially because awesome was, well, awesome :) There is some config but you will get quite far with a few extra lines on top of defaults.

☕️ johan · Jan 12 at 07:17:

but with that said, why not wayland on linux? the only thing that still works poorly afaik is screen sharing with <insert giant corporate chat client>. apart from that wayland is so much smoother

☕️ hellfire103 · Jan 12 at 08:24:

Spectrwm is a dwm fork that has on-the-fly configuration.

I've also heard good things about cwm from OpenBSD.

😈 dimkr · Jan 12 at 09:20:

+1 for cwm, it can do floating windows and tiling, very easy to configure (without having to rebuild) and has Linux ports

🦀 jeang3nie · Jan 12 at 21:40:

I use I3 on FreeBSD. The config file isn't all that hard to figure out and there's a fair amount of extensibility without it being complex out of the box.

Historical footnote, Sway was developed as a Wayland clone of I3. They even share config formats. I use Sway on Linux and I3 on FreeBSD. Have to look at my shell prompt sometimes to tell the difference.

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Wanted: a step up from dwm... — I am looking to upgrade from dwm to something a little bit easier to configure. I love dwm, and am generally happy with it. But I need a little more flexibility -- just a little. Maybe different kind of layouts in different windows (or tags or whatever). And while I am fluent in C, I find the way configuration works clumsy and hard to maintain, especially when patches are involved. However, it seems that every time I look at other tiling wms, they instantly...

💬 stack · 12 comments · Jan 11 · 4 weeks ago