dots-hyprland VS i3-auto-layout

My work on AGS, so far, has been mostly focused on adding support for additional features that weren't available before. I implemented the possibility to write your own PolKit agent in AGS and have just recently gotten secure session locking via the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol working. I still need to clean up the code and send PRs upstream, though.

That said, my config is available on GitHub [0]. If you want to see much more complete setups, you should check out the configurations by Aylur (creator of AGS) [1], kotontrion [2], or end_4 [3]. I'm sure there are lots more that are notable, but these immediately came to mind.

[0] https://github.com/Cu3PO42/gleaming-glacier/tree/next/config...

[1] https://github.com/Aylur/dotfiles

[2] https://github.com/kotontrion/dotfiles

[3] https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland

I am new to hyprland and want to learn to customize. Before making my own, I wanted to look and install other's configs to learn how they. So I found this dots git.

> What made you choose hyprland over sway?

The number of people talking about how great it was, while it's much more recent that sway.

Eyecandy is important to, so is flexibility: check https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland and you'll see very different styles made from the same hyprland that I use in "each window is fullscreen" mode.

But to stay with a desktop, you've got to integrate it to your workflow.

Pure insanity https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland/tree/main

I'm afraid you will need osu!supporter for that >! It's in the original post's image (blog post link in my reply) if you didn't notice, may check each branch for correct version, since it seems to include multiple rices !<

The problem with this fairly complex solution is that the easier path by far is simpler window arrangements, multiple monitors, and many workspaces. Once you have more windows than fit on a workspace its easier just to have more workspaces and 1-3 windows is what basically universally fits on most monitors.

If you organize more things in the same space you probably need indivdual apps that themselves have tabs like browsers, editors, IDEs rather than more windows.

Personally I use https://github.com/chmln/i3-auto-layout to make slightly better layouts automatically be automatically alternating between v and h splits and find this fits my needs 95% of the time.

Shit work under i3 is already very small but if you wanted to reduce it further I think you could probably go a long way with a very simple feature.

Add a save button that saves current layout to a list like so

Browser, calculator

Browser, pdf reader

terminal terminal terminal

ide terminal terminal

Then have a restore function that simply walks the list finds the entry that matches the kind and number of window and shoves existing windows into that layout. You can at creation time use something like i3-save-tree, edit the json, yada yada but its all fairly manual and I think for the use case it would be relatively simpler. The few non standard all match for me a simple pattern eg there really isn't 2 different ways I want IDE terminal terminal

i3-auto-layout is faster and less resource usage