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almost 2 years ago | 4 months ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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moonwm
Posts with mentions or reviews of moonwm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-15.
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Another post on Linux battery performance
I am using my own WM MoonWM, which is based on dwm. It is probably not for everyone, but I think that goes for every WM (also it is probably not as stable as the "big" players). A common first WM is probably i3, but you really just have to try some until you find one that fits.
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DWM "stutters" on media playback on any chromium based browser/app
The main difference compared to other window managers is that in dwm when you switch tags the windows that are not shown are simply moved to a negative x position, whereas in most other window managers the windows become iconified which involves a few more steps like mapping and unmapping the window. I don't think this should make a difference, but there is a build of dwm that iconifies windows when they are hidden rather than moving them to a negative position if you'd like to try that out.
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A DE-Like Tiling Window Manager
You can install instantWM on another distro. I myself wrote MoonWM, which is based on dwm and should support basic DE functionality as well as draging windows with you mouse. If you want to you can give it a try. Although I should also not that it is not as smooth of an experience, as many regular DEs and I don't plan an pushing any updates other than obvious bugfixes in the near future.
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[dwm]: Need help changing setlayout so that it toggle to the previous layout if the current layout is equal to the desired layout
I have this implemented in this commit.
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How does DWM manage menus?
Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.
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How can I use Modkey+Ctrl as modifier in dwm?
ControlMask should definitely work though and does so on my build.
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[dwm] Suggest improvements on my build?
Idk, but this is the ginormous list of patches I have applied on my build:
xmenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of xmenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.
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[OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
It does not have a context menu. Instead, it uses a script set in the $XFILES_CONTEXTCMD environment variable. This script must call xmenu, pmenu, thingmenu, jgmenu, or any other mouse-controllable menu; and gets as argument the paths to selected files.
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Suggest me an application launcher.
xmenu
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Is there a way to add widgets to your menu?
Another not centric way, but simple and fast is xmenu, which allows to use simple scripting for each row (common for any WMs): * https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu
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[Patch Idea] Right Click Behavior Like in Original FVWM?
here you go this is exactly what you want. You could reimplement this in your build or follow the suckless philosophy and use this tool.
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Where all the menu entries?
xmenu https://github.com/phillbush/xmenu and generate with xdg-xmenu https://github.com/OliverLew/xdg-xmenu, I like this style and configuration of it. It is not in lua, but idea and concept is suckless.
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Asking about can your software support RTL
Haven't tried this one since dmenu works for me, but I think xmenu might have better support for it. It's not as suckless but honestly dealing with multiple languages sucks lol
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I wrote 91menu, a better 9menu (?).
Nice. I also wrote a popup menu utility that has the same input-to-output interface as dmenu. But mine is a little more bloated: it supports input from keyboard, nested menus, icons and label/command separation.
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Xorg crashes: can't found ISO-8859-2d
The only other requirement should be xmenu
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How does DWM manage menus?
Have a look into dmenu, rofi and xmenu. They are all good at different things. The first two are keyboard driven and support a basic application menu by default. Xmenu is more like a context menu. For the most part you create the menus yourself with scripts. You can pipe stuff into their stdin and get the selected entry via stdout. Here is an example of what I use for my dwm build.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing moonwm and xmenu you can also consider the following projects:
patches - Collection of patches for dwm, st and dmenu
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
dwm-dynamicswallow-patch - Bring scriptable window swallowing to dwm!
alttab - The task switcher for minimalistic window managers or standalone X11 session
dwm-laptop - My build of Suckless DWM for my laptop.
awesome-freedesktop - Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icons support for Awesome WM
91menu - A Plan9-inspired, mouse-oriented, graphical menu, which works with the standard input.
dmenu-pango
imlib2-jxl - JPEG XL loader for imlib2
xdg-xmenu - Minimal app menu with xmenu
mpdart - A simple X application that shows mpd album art. Mirror of https://git.depsterr.com/mpdart
dotfiles