nixos
waymonad
nixos | waymonad | |
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7 | 21 | |
102 | 828 | |
- | 0.4% | |
8.6 | 0.0 | |
3 months ago | almost 5 years ago | |
Nix | Haskell | |
MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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nixos
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The Framework Laptop 13
I enabled the pstate driver yesterday for my T14s gen3 (AMD). It almost doubled my battery life, the fan never spins anymore and it's very very quiet and cool now. You need to specifically enable it in Linux kernel, this is how I did it:
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/commit/17e8a9e2ce4b0f34ef6cf...
It should also be used together with the `shedutil` governor for the best results.
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What’s New in Emacs 28.1?
Wayland support didn't make it... Oh well it is in version 29.
I've been using the wayland version with libgccjit many months now from their git repo and it is extremely snappy and stable editor.
My strategy to keep all of this together is a nix derivation that compiles the latest master branch with all the plugin. Oh and my config is an org file with clear comments...
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/tree/main/desktop/emacs
All reproducible...
Btw. I recommend SystemCrafters video series Emacs from scratch. It teaches how to make a vanilla emacs to work like doom emacs does. It was helpful for me to understand the magic behind doom...
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bB...
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XMonad – The Automated Tiling WM
I kind of have a thing for ThinkPads, and I have three laptops with NixOS:
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 model. Even the fingerprint reader works with this one. And fractional scaling for the 4k monitor! Config: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/purrpurr.nix
- ThinkPad T25. Everything except the fingerprint reader works. https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/muspus.nix
- ThinkPad X230: Everything works here. The classic workhorse. https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/hosts/meowmeow.nix
I never tried anything else except ThinkPads just because I'd miss the TrackPoint a lot...
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Bye Cups: Printing with Netcat
I used to dread setting up printers on any operating system. I've done it countless of times with Linux, Windows and macOS, and it's been quite common to have some kind of fight with the printer until I get my paper out.
Only recently, by buying a Brother laser printer at home, and setting all my machines to use NixOS, I haven't been needing to think about printer problems anymore. All I need is this piece of config, and the printer will Just Work with the new computer:
https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/modules/home-servi...
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Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
I did a month, diving directly into the deep end with flakes and all. I don't know, it really is hard in the beginning. Like, really hard. But eventually I got myself a setup I could use in my two laptops and workstation. A setup, that sets my home directory, all my programs and my custom desktop just the way I want. Everything is in the github repo, and installing with the flake will give me the exact experience I have in my other machines.
I tend to use lots of custom tools and commands, that are really painful to install and setup for a new machine. With NixOS all of it is just one command away.
But, I agree, it is REALLY HARD in the beginning to grasp things.
Here's my configs if you want to see how I approached my own setup: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
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When Miguel de Icaza stopped using Linux
And I come here always to remind people in the Apple bubble, that there are big groups of us who are not thinking like that!
I'm also soon in my 40s and I had my Apple years between 2004 and 2010. I came back to Linux and kind of hate the word tinkering even. The current Linux system offers something that nobody else does: your own desktop just how you like it.
I have my configs in GitHub: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
With this config, I can take any ThinkPad (that are plentiful, great HW and cheap), boot from USB and get the same exact desktop experience I've had for almost a decade now in twenty minutes.
And what kind of desktop? A minimal tiling window manager on top of Wayland. Exactly the applications I need. The same wallpaper as always. The same editor, the same browser, the same keyboard shortcuts, the same kernel params, the same internet setup. Sound? Always worked. With PipeWire, it even seems to work better than on my Windows installation (and replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire was a one line config change).
Now. There will be no product manager somewhere that will dictate how I use my computer. If something changes in my workflow, that comes from my configuration. Nowhere else. No advertisement for new products, no suddenly disappearing applications. If something breaks from an update, I just boot to the version before I started them and I'm back to the previous state. When updates are leaving me to a state I'm happy about, I commit them to that GitHub repo and they will work exactly the same until I decide to update again. And I run the master branch of NixOS which is breaking sometimes, and it's still much more stable experience I ever had with OSX...
Of course this is not for everybody, but please understand when celebrating the commercial offerings how there's so many of us who do not want a desktop experience dictated by product managers. Who are kind of conservative how our workflows should stay the same for years, or decades. And we are still super productive, doing our work and very happy using Linux.
I'm going to copy&paste this comment to every single Apple post from now on...
waymonad
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X11 is dead, switch to Wayland
I am personally waiting for Waymonad. https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
It takes time, but the teams behind wlroots etc are doing good work to make sure that wms managed by smaller teams can exist. There are even clones for your specific wm on wayland. See https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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switching from awesomewm to a wayland compositor
In addition, there was the last commit in 2019. Thus, it can be assumed that the project is dead and therefore nothing will change on the current state. And according to https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44, there are probably not enough people who would actively participate in a fork.
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I was in a stream and I realized what is still lacking from Linux Gaming to be mainstream
Ideally xmonad would be ported/xmonad devs would be working on waymonad, but I doubt it will happen. Waymonad seems to be abandoned.
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Cool Desktops Don’t Change
Nice to see Qtile on Wayland. But I'm personally waiting for xmonad on Wayland.
https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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A tiling desktop environment is now available for Bullseye
I wouldn't count on it, as Waymonad has not seen active development since 2019 and the Haskell bindings to wlroots have not been updated since 2019 as well. There is a fork, but it has not been active since September 2021. Also, it was based on wlroots, not sway.
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How hard would it be to make my own window manager?
That's what the XMonad fans are using: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad lets you write your Wayland compositor in Haskell, is analogy to the way XMonad lets you write your X window manager in Haskell.
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I would not give up haskell for hiring purposes. I think it will exponentialy rise through the roof in a year or two [2012]
Unfortunately it was abandoned https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad/issues/44
- Is there a successful Wayand wm that is close to xmonad?
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Little advice, please.
regarding keeping an interest, waymonad has been dead for something like two and a half years but according to startrack it's still getting people giving him stars so i don't think you should worry about it.
What are some alternatives?
asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
spectrwm - A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
wlroots - A modular Wayland compositor library
dotfiles - And I say hey, what's going on?
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
i3-alternating-layout - Scripts to open new windows in i3wm using alternating layouts (splith/splitv) for each new window
cups - OpenPrinting CUPS Sources
ibus - Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
autotiling - Script for sway and i3 to automatically switch the horizontal / vertical window split orientation