bspwm
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
krohnkite
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin (by esjeon)
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| 7,515 | 1,589 | |
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| 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| C | TypeScript | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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bspwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.
- can't download and decompress git repo
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BSPWM?
Bspwm is a window manager. Configuration happens in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bspwm/bspwmrc, as per stated here: https://github.com/baskerville/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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Changing layout of node
If you use the bspwm off of github instead of the old 0.9.10, you can use bspc node @parent -y next to cycle the split type of the parent of the focused. I added it ~1.5years ago, after baskerville added node -y horizontal and node -y vertical to set the split type of a node to vertical/horizontal ~2 years ago.
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How to use dump and load state?
Also bspwm's JSON generation and parsing is not great. If you have a window with quotes in its class name, bspwm, when dumping it, will not escape them generating invalid JSON (e.g. {"className":"the "cool" window",) that jq will not be able to read, and even worse, bspwm itself will not be able to read. (Yes, if a window's class name contains a " character, bspwm will fail to reload after you run wm -r #1362).
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How to install bspwm on ubuntu-22.04 and config it?
Just follow this guide
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[bspwm] yine yeşillik ama biraz farklısından
Pencere yöneticisi: bspwm
krohnkite
Posts with mentions or reviews of krohnkite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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kde tilling features needs some attention
That's exactly what happens. Bismuth was a fork of Krohnkite. If someone needs Bismuth enough, they will pick it up, fork it or whatever.
- Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
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Manjaro / KDE — hard to dislike
I wonder if this PR would help you.
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KDE VS GNOME
No idea what exactly that shell does but in KDE krohnkite https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite was pretty popular until it was somehow superseeded by bismuth https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth (which forked krohnkite or was inspired by or whatever) and now with Plasma 5.27 there's initial work on a native tiling window manager including a whole new API for people to build upon, and which can be accessed with Meta+T.
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Is there a way to install Kwin - Bismuth on my steam deck in a way that doesn't make my head hurt?
You can use Kronkite just fine. Bismuth is a fork of it, and their feature-sets are practically the same.
- I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration
- I’m done with pop
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KDE/Plasma Nordish
Kwin tiling script - Krohnkite
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Are there options for dynamic window tiling in a traditional desktop environment?
Do you know how that differs from https://github.com/esjeon/krohnkite it seems like that is another tiling extension.
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What does your workflow look like on Linux?
I love virtual desktops and Krohnkite; it works infinitely better than windows.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bspwm and krohnkite you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)
bismuth - KWin tiling extension, that gets you down to bismuth. Wayland Support included! 🎉 [Moved to: https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth]
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Grid-Tiling-Kwin - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows
Lightly - A modern style for qt applications.
herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11