qtile VS vivarium

Btw. if you're installing from pip anyway, I HIGHLY recommend using git master's version (pip install git+https://github.com/qtile/qtile). It's very stable and it contains a lot of improvements, features and - mostly important - bug fixes, especially because the fact that the last 0.22.1 release is almost one year old. The current master works fine with xcffib 1.4 and cairocffi 1.6 (the newest possible versions).

Yes, all the dependencies listed in qtile.org are installed.

I think yesterday qtile.org itself seemed to be working properly. Now it is also offline.

Did you see the changelog? https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/CHANGELOG

You need to have xcffib in version 1.3.0 and you probably have 1.4.0. You also need cairocffi 1.5.1 and you probably have 1.6.0, so it will fail as the next step. Install correct versions or wait until https://github.com/qtile/qtile/pull/4289 is merged.

Meanwhile users can still communicate and ask questions in the official Github discussion board: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/discussions or alternatively in IRC irc://irc.oftc.net:6667/qtile during the blackout time period.

Hello 👋, I use Gnome for my ThinkPad it works nice for me. But giving your ram I would suggest a window manager like Qtile which I prefer and I am about move from Gnome to it when I finish my configurations. But if you want something which will be usable out of the box Xfce is a nice choice too as people mentioned above. 😁😁 Here is the link to GitHub for Qtile if you want to give it a glance https://github.com/qtile/qtile

It's currently not supported on Wayland. There is an open issue for it: https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues/4225

Take a look to Vivarium It is more recent it worked decently and it is remakably easy to config.

I wrote Vivarium specifically to behave like my old xmonad setup, although it isn't at all like xmonad internally. It's configurable in C.

Since various people are asking about xmonad-like tiling in wayland:

I wrote Vivarium[0] specifically to be a wayland compositor that behaves exactly like my (fairly simple) xmonad config, but it's a relatively new/unstable compositor and nothing like xmonad internally.

River[1] has a fantastic tiling model via user-provided executables, which makes it very flexible and probably a good fit for many people wanting something xmonad-like.

Waymonad[2] exists as a direct xmonad-like compositor, but I think development has been basically stalled for a long time. Sometimes there's discussion about reviving it though.

[0] https://github.com/inclement/vivarium

[1] https://github.com/ifreund/river

[2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

Vivarium has xwayland as an option, enabled by default.

https://github.com/inclement/vivarium.git and https://github.com/djpohly/dwl.git are also great projects in the same vein.