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Comment by ☕️ hellfire103

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

In: s/Linux

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

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

☕️ hellfire103

Jan 12 · 8 months ago

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😈 dimkr · 2024-01-12 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 · 2024-01-12 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 · 8 months ago