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cizra ,

So true. Sway forever.

299792458ms OP ,

I love Sway, but Hyprland’s special workspace thing is just so damn good.

Sonotsugipaa ,
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Yeah but Hyprland window groups tend to eat each other with the dwindle layout

299792458ms OP ,

what do you mean by eat each other?

Sonotsugipaa ,
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If you have two groups, and you accidentally start dragging a window (assuming you use the mouse at all, which I do) Hyprland will drag the entire group and merge it with the one it’s hovering.

Now, imagine someone coming from Sway, who is used to rearranging individual windows by simply dragging them around without having to explicitly move them out of containers…

PedroG14 ,

Meh, hyprland devs and community are known for being toxic, specially with minorities. Can’t use because of this :/

PedroG14 ,

I also love sway’s default key bindings, so there one more point keeping me on it

MultipleAnimals ,

I don’t see the toxicness on my desktop

JoMiran ,
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Is it too much to ask for the days when my system was nothing but a prompt in which I may or may not type “startx”?

mkwt ,

That’s what I’ve got (on Gentoo).

LainTrain ,

Hah that’s what I always had on Debian on my laptop back in the version 9 days (buster?). Nothing’s stopping you from doing it now with runlevels. I think with systems it’s just systemctl set-default multiuser.target

You can then always get the full boot with systemctl isolate graphical.target

Might not be the exact command but it’s something like that for sure.

qjkxbmwvz ,

Been a while but isn’t that very insecure? Gotta run startx & exit ;)

qjkxbmwvz ,

I always ran startx & exit to prevent someone from VT switching to a logged in console if my screen was locked :)

Churbleyimyam ,

I’m at the point in my Linux journey where I have settled into a stable system, configured 99.9% how I want it. Seeing diminishing returns on effort put into tweaking it. But I just keep looking at window managers. I have people who need me in the world but I just can’t stop looking at them. I don’t know what to do.

OR3X ,

I’m in the same boat so I started getting my “tweaking” fix by making my own themes. Just got my first cursor theme working and it’s awesome!

Churbleyimyam ,

Sweet! I’ve experimented with installing a few bits from gnome look but haven’t made any of my own. How difficult is it? I’ve managed to theme my favourite terminal applications though. A big part of my satisfaction is based on feeling, a large part of which is visual. Diehard instrumentalists may look down on me for it but I am unashamed and not alone.

OR3X ,

Honestly, it’s way more convoluted and frustrating than it has any right to be. The only tools I found were cursor-toolbox which allows you to convert SVG templates to the correct set of PNGs and xcursorgen which converts the PNGs to actual cursor files. It took me several tries just get a working cursor set. Then I spent much much longer actually drawing and tweaking my theme using inkscape. It was certainly rewarding to get it working though. Now I smile every time I see the little “busy” animation.

Churbleyimyam ,

You are a true martyr my friend and I feel you!

cygnus ,
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Every year or so I fire up a VM, install a window manager on it, realize I have no idea WTF I’m doing, and nuke the VM and go back to my regular KDE desktop.

299792458ms OP ,

Do not worry I’m daily driving a window manager and still do not know what I’m doing.

Ghoelian ,

I used to do the same, but recently I’ve found a dustro and window manager that just work for me. The distro is Fedora atomic, and the window manager is sway.

I pretty much just used a floating window manager like a tiling one, almost always snapping them to 1/2 or 1/3 of the screen. Eventually I tried sway, and after learning some of the shortcuts, it seems like the perfect window manager for someone like me.

slacktoid ,
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I just like my keyboard shortcuts and easy configurations. But… Kdewayland and pipewire is just so easy.

nichtburningturtle ,
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Don’t forget to switch your wm atleast once a year for no reason.

299792458ms OP ,

that is just barbaric, you should do it at least once a month.

qjkxbmwvz ,

I did all of grad school with i3wm. And I spent a very, very long time in grad school…

mysticpickle ,

This meme would work better if that banana didn’t look like it yearned for the sweet release of death in banana bread.

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