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bspwm
- Multiple screens with different resolutions?
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What WM should I use?
Use BSPWM. It supports right clicks by default and its modular. You might want to look for status bars that work with it, slstatus does not work. Good luck, supremacist!
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What are some OpenSource apps that are the best of their kind?
I had not heard of bspwm but I am a fan of telling WMs. Looking at the documentation now, I really like the pragmatic approach lol https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm
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[bspwm] yine yeşillik ama biraz farklısından
Pencere yöneticisi: bspwm
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Got some questions before moving to linux...
I am not familiar with that distro at all, so no idea. KDE Plasma is fine, I use it myself (with BSPWM as my window manager, but that's irrelevant)
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Patience is key when you're new to Linux.
bspwm
- Is Wayland really the best solution
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MacBook Setup - OS Ventura 13.1 - Samsung QLed 43” - VM: yabai - Terminal: Hyper
There's a paradigm shift required for a lot of people to start using automatic tiling window managers. Yabai is basically a bspwm port for MacOS and it follows the rules of binary space partitioning. In fact, bspwm has a great diagram on its github readme that illustrates how it works. This will limit the number of windows you can have on any given desktop. To overcome this limitation you use multiple desktops. A lot of people will designate desktops specifically for specific applications that they might need to bring up together. For example, you might have one desktop dedicated to all communication applications like Slack, Discord, Email, etc. You swap between desktops and windows using hotkeys that you can assign using whatever program you like, but yabai's maintainer also maintains skhd which allows you to bind hotkeys to yabai commands to perform actions on windows and spaces.
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How much better is neoVim? Is it really that much better than VsCode?
It’s night and day. I also combine a heavily customized NeoVim config (https://github.com/tomit4/notes/tree/main/nvim) with a tiling window manager (https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm), the espanso text expander (https://espanso.org/), Vimium in the browser (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/), and a 40% ortholinear keyboard(https://drop.com/buy/planck-mechanical-keyboard).
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[BSPWM] My first rice!
OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here
komorebi
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.
This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.
[1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.
[3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.
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Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
It's very heartening to see all of the stories here.
I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.
Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market values LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.
- Win-Vind: Vim powers with speed of thought in Windows 11
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Tools to achieve a 10x developer workflow on Windows
The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.
- Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
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More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some
This is pretty depressing. I'm pretty involved in the ricing side of the Windows ecosystem[1] and there is a lot of work going on in this space to allow users to get rid of the start bar entirely and replace it with something more functional. I would love for the day when there could just be a user friendly drop-in replacement.
[1]: I develop one of the two main Windows twms (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi)
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JigsawWM - A Free and Open Source Dynamic Tiling Window Manager Written in Python for Windows
Why not komorebi ?
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Winfiles - Ultimate Dev Setup for Windows 🪟🪄
Tiling window management with komorebi and AutoHotKey
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AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
I don't think it's quite that simple with this use case[1][2], but I'm happy to be proven wrong!
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/derive-ahk/sr...
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/komorebic.lib...
I ended up using AHK for komorebi[1] because I was still new to Windows when I start writing it and I didn't wanna have to write a tiling window manager AND a hotkey daemon. I even ended up generating a nice little AHK library to wrap around CLI commands that sent socket messages to the window manager to make it easier to write a configuration.
Ultimately the syntax changes make it impossible to fully reproduce the same library for AHKv2, which is being installed by default on all mainstream package managers now.
I ended up biting the bullet and making my own hotkey daemon[2] for use with komorebi based on skhd[3] and I haven't looked back since. This will be the "blessed" hotkey daemon recommended for use in the next release of komorebi.
I'm still using AHK (v1) for the stuff that it's good at (and there is a lot of stuff that it's good at!), but ultimately I've found that it's not the right tool as a hotkey daemon for a socket-based tiling window manager.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
What are some alternatives?
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
glazewm - GlazeWM is a tiling window manager for Windows inspired by i3 and Polybar.
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
leftwm - A tiling window manager for Adventurers
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
bug.n - Tiling Window Manager for Windows
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon