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Re: "Wanted: a step up from dwm..."
Spectrwm is a dwm fork that has on-the-fly configuration.
I've also heard good things about cwm from OpenBSD.
Jan 12 · 3 weeks ago
+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.
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...