Komorebi Alternatives

komorebi reviews and mentions

• Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video]
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2025

  Out of the major operating systems, Windows is probably by far my favorite to develop for[1] using Rust. windows-rs[2] is officially supported and is constantly being worked on and improved.

  [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

  [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

• A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2025

  If anyone is trying to reach mouseless nirvana on Windows, I maintain a tiling window manager[1] and a hotkey daemon[2] (though you can bring your own thanks to the architecture choices I made), the former of which provides a very robust event subscription system which you can integrate with using any language of your choice.

  One of the cooler parts of my little mouseless ecosystem is that I automatically have different keyboard layers (QMK style) activate depending on which application is currently focused, saving me a whole bunch of time fumbling around with obscure hotkey combinations for changing layers![3]

  [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

  [2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd

  [3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana

• Hyprland 0.44.0 Is Out
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2024

  > the biggest issue is the constant config changes. It seems every version changes the config file, and you have to resolve the new errors and find the new knobs to turn.

  I also maintain a very popular tiling window manager now (after years of suffering through breaking configuration changes with other twms) and this is the one thing that I will not budge on as a maintainer: Breaking configuration changes are unacceptable. Period.

  From the project README[1]:

  > Breaking changes to user-facing interfaces are unacceptable

  > ...

  > No user should ever find that their configuration file has stopped working after upgrading to a new version of komorebi.

  [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi?tab=readme-ov-file#breaki...

• I3wm Inspired Wm for Windows
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2024
• PowerToys Run: extensible quick launcher for power users
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2024

  The whole PowerToys suite looks useful. I'm trying to find some time to get familiar with it all.

  Also want to get going with komorebi (https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi) as I've looked at the Linux tiling window managers for years with envy.

• Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2024
• AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
  28 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2024

  Nice to see another twm on macOS.

  Somehow over the past few years Windows became the more vibrant platform for twms (vs macOS) with developers (including myself) trying to push the envelope and introduce many quality of life features you still won't find even in Linux twms today.

  https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

  https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm

  https://github.com/dalyIsaac/Whim

• Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows written in Rust
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
• An app can be a home-cooked meal
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024

  I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.

  This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.

  [1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.

  [2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.

  [3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.

• Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
  62 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023

  It's very heartening to see all of the stories here.

  I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.

  Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market values LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.

  [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

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