Bottom left is Awesome WM. Ask me anything or tell us your picks!
(and feel free to tear me apart on my picks)
Hehe. I love these. I wonder what’s next? Text editors? Web browsers? Terminal emulators? Init systems?
I was a mite tempted to make a logo for my xmonad config, that I’ve whimsically been calling a window manager, called Tabularboonad for about 14 years. But really, it’s just an xmonad config.
I was a mite tempted to attempt to wrangle some contrived reasoning, and positioning on the chart, for my wminizer scripts, since (similar to the prior distro one, with my bedrocklinux use), I do not limit myself to just one wm (or distro), and really, I can switch between any window managers I have installed (and have listed in one of wmnizer’s wmrotate scripts (or the selection list, in the wmnizer2 branch)), such as xmonad, dwm, herbstluftwm, spectrwm, dk, icewm, openbox, without restarting X11(Xorg/XLibre/Pheonix/TinyX), keeping all my gui running seamlessly, as I switch wm in a split second. … So if following the logic of BedrockLinux, that it’s the distro I use, not the multitudes within/upon it, then instead of xmonad (+^)I should say wminizer [(oops, just realised i misspelled wminizer as wmnizer in the rudimentary logo I hastily scribbled for it earlier [when tempted use it here], lol, doh.)]. But, that’s not the same. Doesn’t feel right to try use that logic.
I suppose I should not have been so surprised to see xmonad show up so much in this one.
Whee. These are fun.
wasn’t really planning on making another one, but yknow what? Maybe I will make one for web browsers
I like hyprland, even tho the devs are assholes
I’m open to switching to similar tiling WMs but I’ve put a lot of time into my current config
I use sway, but I see that Niri is getting a lot of attention during the past months/years. Maybe you can use some AI to convert one config into the other and manually fix here and there while (ironically) keeping Hyprland as a safe place to go if something goes wrong
Here we go, because why not:
Favorite: LXQt+i3. LXQt plays nice with tiling WMs, GTK and Qt, and it’s just way easier than installing a WM on its own. Tiling WMs are GOAT.
Honorable Mention: Crunchbang/early Bunsenlabs and Cinnamon Least Favorite: Gnome
First: probably Openbox on Crunchbang
Current: LXQt+i3
Longest Used: LXQt+i3
Future: sway, possibly with LXQt if I make the switch after the LXQt devs finish providing Wayland support.
First DE used was definitely Cinnamon. Longest use should be awesome or i3, mah be close. Least favourite definitely awesome though, due to the way you have to configure it. It’s just such a mess. My favourite is also my current: herbstluftwm. Configuring it is actually fun (Btw, I am not into ricing, I am rather implementing unnecessary things). And I am still waiting for a wm which would actually convince me to use on wayland. That one would be the future wm^^
i3/sway for life
first: gnome current: gnome favourite: niri honourable mention: kde least favourite: cosmic (probably as i used it from an alpha that probably wasn’t ready to daily drive yet) longest used: no idea, i’ve used niri, kde, gnome, xfce and leftwm for considerable periods of time future: i want to go back to niri at some point, just using gnome for the convenience for the moment
Favorite DE: Niri First DE used: XFCE DE you want to use in the future: Niri Honorable Mention: Hyprland least favorite: Anything non tiling, or maybe Hyprland due to a lot of minor annoyances Current DE: Niri longest used DE: i3 Current Distro: NixOS and Arch
You should try Niri!
Fellow nix os enjoyer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I’ve considered it, but i’m not sure if I like the scrolling tiling yet…
At first its novelty, then it starts to make sense, and then you can’t live without it. I’ve tried to switch to other DE’s a couple of times including similar ones like MangoWC and I always come back. I used Cosmic for 30 mins before I ragequit and went back to Niri.
I tried Niri for a little more than a month and it is great I feel that regular tiling is better. Sure, the scrolling layout has the benefit of not having to resize windows as often, but at the cost of having to look/search for those windows that overflow the workspace view. Also Niri has a problem that when you toggle fullscreen on a window inside a column it will expel it out from the column. And I’m not a fan of the dynamic workspaces amongst some other little quirks too. I have a blog post about it if you are interested.
Nonetheless it is a great window manager and it is in my top 3.
Niri’s workspaces are just rows, windows being expelled from the columns when fullscreened is very much expected.
I suppose what you want is floating the window and making it fullscreen, returning it to it’s position in the layout after returning it to it’s normal size?
To be honest, sounds like a bit of pain to implement.
I suppose what you want is floating the window and making it fullscreen, returning it to it’s position in the layout after returning it to it’s normal size?
I want to fullscreen a window that is contained within a column and when I toggle out of the fullscreen the window must not be expelled out of the column(staying in place). For example in Hyprland’s scrolling layout windows that are fullscreen keep are kept in the column (it looks clunky as hell).
To be honest, sounds like a bit of pain to implement.
I talked to Niri’s developer long time ago on Matrix and he agreed on that, however this behaviour (or apparent behaviour) is not the same with tabbed windows withing a column. I understand that within the windowing logic it is hard thing to do, and that they are not the same operations.
For what is worth, I’m not the only one with this problem, many people have expressed the same thought.
Well, it’s because the whole column is fullscreened instead of a single window in that case. I guess you can abuse it a little bit and write a script that’d switch the column into tabbed mode before fullscreening a window if the column has more than one window in it.
I don’t think there is a way to know if the column is already tabbed, though. Might need a bit of unholy incantations to make it all work.
Oh yeah, that would be pretty cursed.
Niri is crazy good. I get itchy without it now
niri and dank material shell 🙏👌
What’s that at the top left? I can’t find a window manager named Cosmic anywhere. I’m addicted to hopping window managers, I’m curious what that one is like especially if it is tiling.
It’s a desktop environment, originally from Pop!_OS. It’s very new, and sometimes still slightly buggy but I really like it.
It’s a hybrid tiling or floating wm. The tiling mode is really good though!
First: Gnome Favorite: Gnome Longest Used: Gnome Least Favorite: KDE Current: Gnome Future: Gnome
Used Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE in the past. Bucking the trend, I think Gnome is fine and does what I need it to do. You do you, though. That’s what is great about Linux.
Gnome + Wayland + NVIDIA drivers = Not a good time.
Gnome was fine, gnome today is unusable.
What sort of issues do you run into with GNOME w/ Nvidia? I’m curious because it has been rock solid for me with 5070ti on a laptop.
The most maddening behavior with alt tab. Let’s say I have 4 windows open on a single desktop split on a single monitor. [A|B] and [C|D]. C and D become best buddies, if I alt tab from A to D to reference something, A loses focus and I get both C and D visible. It becomes impossible to look at A and D together. Had no issues with sway/Wayland/nvidia. Nor with xfce but trying to let x be dead. Don’t have the issue with gnome/Wayland on Intel chips.
That does sound frustrating tbh. Do you think something similar to macOS’s stage manager to help your use-case? I built an extension to enable Window previews in the dock and I’m wondering if it might be useful to add that as a feature.
I’m an AMD fan so I haven’t ran into that issue. I could see how that is a problem though.
Non deterministic alt tabbing with arbitrary “buddy windows” is the most frustrating desktop experience imaginable. It’s less bad without nvidia in the mix but still seen it happen with Intel chips as well. Moved back to sway for tiling goodness and my sanity is restored.
What’s your beef with Gnome?
idk… it just feels very locked down, and honestly every time i’ve tried it, there’s been some issue with it. I feel like it’s not customizable enough for me, and also the themeing is inconsistent.
That’s honestly exactly how I would describe KDE, but to each their own!
you would describe KDE as… not customizable?
Inconsistent
Probably never found the widget store.
And I had that same reaction when you said Gnome wasn’t customizable.
Maybe OP likes a more Windows-like UI
That’s not really my issue. I actually prefer MacOS like-interfaces, although in the grand scheme of things I don’t actually care. I mostly just want to be able to choose what I want though.
People talk about how gnome is the obvious choice for people coming from a Mac, but, well, I came from a Mac and I hated gnome. It wasn’t Mac-like at all, it just felt oddly locked-down, with loads of wasted space. The suggestion that Mac users would like it tells me that those people have never actually used a Mac.
Meanwhile, I can quite easily make Plasma look like macOS if I wanted to.
Has anyone cracked the launcher bar in Plasma 6 since Latte Dock didn’t make the jump?
What do you mean?
Latte Dock isn’t being maintained any more, right?
It was the only one I could find that replicated the MacOS dock aesthetic and behavior and it’s used in all the drop-in global themes, but it’s doesn’t run on Plasma 6.
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What’s the DE you want to use in the future? I’m not great with logos. Thanks 😊
Favorite: KDE. The GOAT babyyy
Least Favorite: Deepin, due to the privacy concerns
First DE: XFCE
Honorable Mention: Cosmic. It is sexy with decent balance of customization & strong unified vision. It is early on though so not quite ready for prime time. Some bugs, and resource consumption could be better.
Current DE: KDE
Potential Future DE: Might see what thr fuss is about with WMs like Niri. It seems more complicated to set up than it needs to be, but I like the tiling and use of desktops sort of like GNOME but better.
Longest used DE: KDE
Current distro: Fedora KDE
Gotta say, I don’t really think there’s any big issues with Cosmic anymore. They are updating very very quickly, and at this point is consumes less resources than XFCE…
It also has a native tiling mode xD
i tried cosmic on nixos a while back and it was a bit clunky and missing a couple of bits
time to change that couple of lines of config and try again
i use gnome btw :)
I totally understand people who like Gnome, don’t get me wrong, it’s just not for me.
Since i’m on a rolling release, I thankfully always have the newest versions of Cosmic. They recently also added blurring effects, so that’s pretty fun. Hope it works better for you now!
That’s good to hear! I tried it earlier this year and it was responsive and all (when not buggy) but sitting at 3 or 4 GB of RAM idle. I might give it another go.
I think mine sits at like 1.5 GB idle these days. They’ve really come a long way
Favorite: Cinnamon.
Honorable Mention: KDE.
Least Favorite: Gnome.
First: Gnome.
Current: Cinnamon.
Longest Used: KDE.
Future: CinnamonLongest-used: XFCE, by far. Current: Wayfire + Noctalia 5.