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goomwwm
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River: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic!
[1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm
[2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca)
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Switching to the I3 Window Manager
I came to filing window managers through musca[1] and then goomwwm[2] (Get Out Of My Way Window Manager) and then switched to i3 (and more recently, away) because both Musca and goomwwm haven’t been updated in years.
I still miss Musca and goomwwm. They didn’t require any visualisation of the hierarchy, things were just layer out next to each other without a hierarchy and just worked. It was very intuitive. Goomwwm went a step further: it’s not technically a tiling window manager at all, but rather a floating window manager (so you can have your windows overlap if you want) that happens to be usable as if it were tiling and that’s keyboard centric (but you can use mouse too if you wish). That really was the sweet spot for me and I often find annoying behaviour in i3/sway that goomwwm didn’t have (typically around movement and resizing).
[1] https://github.com/enticeing/musca (original source and all documentation seems to be gone)
[2] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm
Way Cooler
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Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
I'd like to, but I use the Awesome Window Manager, and there is currently no direct equivalent in Wayland at this time. I was holding out for Way Cooler, but unfortunately, it had stopped development 4 years ago.
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help me choose a wm
Just fyi, river is nothing like awesome, it's like bspwm. There was an attempt to make an awesome clone for wayland but it's no longer under development. Also, though it's not tiling, for completeness there's also labwc which is a wayland clone of openbox.
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X11 is dead, switch to Wayland
I know there is a dead project "Way cooler" a wayland awesome clone. https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler
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I was in a stream and I realized what is still lacking from Linux Gaming to be mainstream
And way-cooler(awesome wayland), is archived and not worked on anymore.
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Wayland rewrite fundraiser?
There have been discussions about porting to Wayland on the Discord before and there was a project called (waycooler)[https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler] that attempted to do this. As far as I can tell, you are right in that it would be a serious undertaking, but I would ask on the Discord if you're interested in setting up some kind of fundraiser.
- Switching to the I3 Window Manager
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NVIDIA Proposes Mesa Patches To Support Alternative GBM Back-Ends
Compositors have to be specifically written for Wayland. Awesome/Qtile only support X11 but they could be re-written using a framework like wlroots (somebody tried to make an Awesome clone called Way Cooler but development eventually stalled).
What are some alternatives?
musca - Musca is a simple window manager for X allowing both tiling and stacking modes.
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
smithay - A smithy for rusty wayland compositors
Debian Repository Builder - A project for automatically generating and maintaining Debian repositories from a TOML spec.
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
Parity - (deprecated) The fast, light, and robust client for the Ethereum mainnet.
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
rsedis - Redis re-implemented in Rust.
krohnkite - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
Fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉