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IMHO bspwm is the Emacs of window managers - it provides you the Lego bricks to build your own personalised window manager. Out of the box it's nothing fancy, b
by alfiedotwtf 4y ago
IMHO bspwm is the Emacs of window managers - it provides you the Lego bricks to build your own personalised window manager. Out of the box it's nothing fancy, but given time, you can make it do whatever you want!
- greggyb 4y agoIs emacs not the emacs of window managers with exwm?
- alfiedotwtf 4y agolol, nice :) Edit: oh that wasn't a joke... this is an actual thing :mindblown:
- imiric 4y agoIndeed. I've tried a bunch over the years: i3, Qtile, Xmonad, herbstluftwm, awesome, dwm... And the most popular floating ones: Gnome, KWin, xfwm, Blackbox, etc. They can pry bspwm+sxhkd out of my cold dead hands. It's a fast, lightweight and rock-solid environment, with simple yet flexible customization. It gets out of my way and works exactly as I want it to. I've been using it for years, and don't have the need to switch to anything else. I'm only hoping that something similar can exist for Wayland. Otherwise I don't see myself switching from X anytime soon. Please support the author if you have the means: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/blob/master/doc/CONTRIBUTING.md#donations https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/blob/master/doc/CONTRIB...
- kevincali 4y agoSame for me. Using it for years and it's been extremely reliable on my desktop. Though I have to admit, that I miss a good DE integration for my laptop. I tried both Plasma and XFCE, but both of them have some quirks while having bspwm as the WM. Maybe I'll try out GNOME with Pop Shell. Seems pretty nice out of the box.