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I love i3 but it's really missing a way to group workspaces, I use https://github.com/infokiller/i3-workspace-groups but it's subpar, what I'd really really like is a native workspace matrix...
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There was a discussion about implementing a similar feature natively, but it didn't go anywhere.
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If you want background showing, check out i3-gaps https://github.com/OstOgBajer/i3-gaps
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For macOS, I use Amethyst, recommended here on HN and works fine without disabling security features.
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I used to use awesome like the OP. I used bspwm for a while and am now using i3 as the daily driver. Here are a few of the issues that arise when using a tiling window manager:
1. Per display xrandr settings, or xsettings
2. Statusbar losing tray icons when switching screens or reloading. Tray icons having the wrong size or not showing up at all. Part of the reason is that all tray icons used to be Xembed based. Then came appindicators with KDE having KStatusNotifierItems which may just be a Freedesktop StatusNotifierItem implementation. Polybar too frequently had this issue[0]. The only third party statusbar that properly implements this with using sni-proxy is a haskell based one which's name I forgot which is hard to use on Archlinux if you use the dynamically linked haskell packages.
My compromise right now is to use lxqt with i3, which seems to be a somewhat lightweight wrapper around xsettingsd and a lightweight session implementation.
I really prefer Awesome's tiling mechanism over i3, but i3's multiscreen just works. No weird window disappearing bugs etc.
A lot of these issues seem to have been fixed inside of Gnome directly or inside of KDE, but for some annoying reason every DE seems to have to solve these issues from scratch, which is just a standard Linux issue. I've been using linux as a DE for multiple decades now, so you'd think these issues would be fixed at a more fundamental level at some point, but no ...
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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)
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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)
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Not exactly the same purpose but here is a small tool I wrote to group workspaces across all monitors : https://github.com/J3rome/i3-multimonitor-workspace
TLDR: global workspace span across all monitors. Changing workspace change for all monitors (Similar to what happen in windows & macos). In my opinion, it allows for a better separation between workspaces/tasks.
It's a MVP/alpha software. Need some optimisations but it does the job (been using it daily for over a year now).
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I love i3. Like many, I've been using it for years.
Here's my config files with a lot of i3 goodies: https://github.com/riccardomc/rcs
Maybe you'll find something useful in there.
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For those on KDE just wanna try a tiling-WM-ish behaviour, I found Kröhnkite[1] pretty neat. It cannot be compared to a real tiling WM, but it's nice to get a feeling what this is all about.
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Please check out smithay if you want to see decent progress on a rust wayland implementation: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay
Wlroots is a bit of an extreme case as the API is mostly idiomatic to low-level C and not easy to wrap in safe rust.
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I can't edit my original reply to you because I'm not on desktop right now and the mobile app I use doesn't support edits, but here's the response from the waycooler dev. Note he actually was talking about wayland as a whole, not just wlroots. Obviously it's just one take on the matter, but it's a credible one based on their background: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/199#issuecomment...
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I have written my own bspwm-like twm for Windows which is actively developed and supported: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
It supports multiple monitors, multiple workspaces per monitor, multiple containers per workspace, multiple windows per container (stacks)
It also supports Windows 11 and comes with a batteries-included configuration sample that "just works" and is installable via scoop.
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