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Which Wayland window-manager do you use ?

E.g. labwc,hikari,river,sway,hyperland,wayfire ?

Re: Which Wayland window-manager do you use ?

Reply #1 –
I've tried a few including:

DWL with a couple of patches, but it's not as mature as DWM, so I had trouble applying more than one patch (that being said I don't know much C so it's probably more a me thing than a DWL thing).

Sway, the upside of Sway is that it is essentially a 1:1 drop in replacement for i3. The downside of Sway is that it is essentially a 1:1 drop in for i3 and i3 is pretty far from what I would call a good window manager.

Hyprland, this is what I'm on at the moment and have found it to be the best and most configurable by far, especially since it has a plugin system, the downside of which is the need to compile both Hyprland and the desired plugins from source, which I have at current, been too lazy to do at the moment. Apart from screenshare crashing some programs though cough zoom cough, it has been great.

I've actually found the harder part is getting a halfway decent bar.

I'm using Waybar at them moment, but it's one of those ones that only has pre-defined modules (cringe) and requires me to patch myself and compile from source if I want to be able to click on a workspace to move to it on Hyprland (see laziness comment above).

I had a look at EWW, but it seems very arcane and I'm convinced no-one actually knows how to configure it, they just copy-paste other working configs.

What I'm looking for is essentially something like i3blocks, dwmblocks or Polybar where by default, all it does is show the active workspaces, maybe it shows the active window title, maybe it doesn't, and then has a section where I can pass arbitrary commands, the output of which is displayed.

The closest to this seems to be Hybrid-bar, but everytime one of my blocks updates it kind of blinks? Flashes? I'm not sure how you'd describe it exactly, but it's very annoying, althogh whether it's a bug or an undocumented feature that is turned on by default is unclear, but it makes the program virtually unusable.

This post was actually much longer than I thought, my apologies.

Re: Which Wayland window-manager do you use ?

Reply #3 –
I use sway, I like the nonoverlapping windows.  And very little screen space lost to fluff, just a narrow bar with time/date and the workspaces.  In particular, no row of icons. Starting firefox by typing "[mod]P firefox [enter]" is faster than mousing around for something to click on - ditto for all other sw.