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Also to add that personally, I moved from i3 to bspwm first, and you might be happier with bspwm than mine in its current state (but thoughtful PR's are welcome
by vidarh 2y ago
Also to add that personally, I moved from i3 to bspwm first, and you might be happier with bspwm than mine in its current state (but thoughtful PR's are welcome)
I had basically two motivations to write my own: 1) because I could, 2) because bspwm - at least at the time had a couple of quirks I disliked: a) if I ran a file manager, it'd open on all the desktops, b) it took a hack that wasn't very satisfying to get one desktop to be floating while the others were tiled. Those were minor, and so if I hadn't already been working on extending X11 bindings for Ruby for my other Ruby projects I probably would've stayed on bspwm, but since my usage was also very simple, I figured I'd see how long I'd last, and I got close enough within a few days to decide it was viable to keep using my own instead of trying to fix bspwm.
My tolerance level for weird quirks that I'm in control of is very high, though. It feels very different when its your own bugs :)
- nucleogenesis 2y ago> My tolerance level for weird quirks that I'm in control of is very high, though. Likewise for me and the idea that I could hack at it in Ruby is making trying it out very tempting. If I test it on multiple monitors I’ll let ya know if it works and if it doesn’t I might try to find time on the weekends to work it out and submit a patch. I’m basically committed to not using Wayland so it wouldn’t hurt me to learn more about how X11 actually works lol. Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful reply!
- vidarh 2y agoSounds great. If you have any questions, my contact details are in my HN profile.