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• Improving Xwayland Window Resizing
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2024

  While the argument of "I deal with X11-based WMs because it's fine when I don't care about security at all" may be valid in very narrow cases (such as air-gapped systems), the argument more generally is pretty weak.

  Its not surpising that x11 based WMs, such as the almighty [awesomeWM](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome), have more features implemented than, for instance, [jay](https://github.com/mahkoh/jay) due to the enormous time it has had to develop (though I am _very_ excited to see `jay` develop more fully, and expect it to be well used by the more tech-savy devs).

  However, some WMs in the Wayland space are doing quite well on that front. I recently had some substantial problems arise in my system which (surprisingly to me, but perhaps some are getting used to this) would have been prevented by using a memory safety language for my WM, so I have made the switch to (for better or worse) only ever consider Wayland+Rust WMs. In this space, [niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) is actually quite good, and to the point - it is developing correctly _and very quickly_. So, any issues on some WM not implementing some desired feature are quickly disappearing.

  IIRC, all the major 'gateway' linux distros, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are all on Wayland by default now - so I don't imagine x11 will stay relevant much longer.

• Steve Klabnik's Tutorial on Jujutsu (Git replacement)
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2024

  > Is there more advanced stuff that's more complex that I just haven't seen?

  Yes? I mean, it even has a system to install plugins made with WASM, from what I saw in the docs. I guess you could just use the basics and be okay with it.

  For me, after years of tinkering with apps like Vim, Emacs, and AwesomeWM [1], I've developed a bit of PTSD over the amount of time these kinds of tools can take to configure and master. Zellij feels like it belongs in this category of tools, and perhaps I'm overreacting or flinching. :-)

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  1: https://awesomewm.org/

• Executable Blog Posts: Second Take
  9 projects | dev.to | 11 Aug 2024

  I used Lua for years to configure my awesomewm desktop environment. Then, I started using it to configure my Wezterm. Since I bumped into an Emacs bug (lsp-mode bug to be fair), I switched quickly to Neovim after 20 years of Emacs, and I am using Lua to configure my Neovim. Last but not least, OpenResty gives my Nginx superpowers with Lua.

• Correcting iBus/X-Windows compose key conflicts
  2 projects | dev.to | 29 May 2024

  My windows manager is awesome. No really, I mean it, it’s awesome. ↩

• Hyprland Crash Course
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024

  https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/3132

• Size of clients in the Master area
  1 project | /r/awesomewm | 7 Dec 2023
• Any plans on porting to wayland?
  1 project | /r/awesomewm | 10 Jul 2023

  i'm reading this issue and this thread as i'm looking into migrate to wayland, since sooner or later we'll apparently have (i know this won't be very soon, but wayland is more and more mainstream). I know "any update on this?" is very annoying, and that's why i'm not open an issue, but... Any update on this?

• selecting menu options without releasing right click
  1 project | /r/awesomewm | 4 Jul 2023

  I guess, it's not supported at the moment or you'll have to do some hacks.. There is this issue (#3777) with the same problem.

• [HELP] Dynamically change menu item title based on client.focus.maximized state
  1 project | /r/awesomewm | 27 Jun 2023

  This is the correction in awesome-git: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/3657/files

• How to replicate this desktop?
  1 project | /r/linux | 21 Jun 2023
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