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Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager
- spudlyo 2y agoPfft, I'll be impressed when Emacs runs as pid 1, has an inittab.el, mounts filesystems, sets up swap, starts daemons, launches X, reaps zombines, and deals with shutdown. I'm sort of surprised nobody's done that yet.
- _emacsomancer_ 2y agoalmost: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE
- Y_Y 2y agoThat's old news: https://web.archive.org/web/20190118221826/https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190118221826/https://www.infor... Fwiw I use EXWM in Guix and only interact with the computer through emacs (though I do need to use terminal and eshell).
- spudlyo 2y agoHandling SIGCHLD and doing the right thing is table-stakes for a functioning init, IMHO. This isn't that.
- codr7 2y agoSounds like SystemD to me, all it's missing is a good editor.
- hulitu 2y ago> Sounds like SystemD to me, all it's missing is a good editor. Please, don't give Poettering ideas. He has enough, already. /s
- rahen 2y agoTry Guix System. The entire system, including PID 1, is configured in Scheme (Guile) and has a very nice Emacs-like hackability.
- aradox66 2y agoI had a fun fling with EXWM, but having your window manager sharing its single-thread with emacs just doesn't really make any sense.
- aradox66 2y agoIf it seems interesting to you or you're experimenting with keyboard-driven tiling WMs, though, I would highly recommend this particular fling.
- bitwize 2y agoThe commonly accepted solution, if this is an issue for you, is to run two instances of Emacs: one to edit in, and one to run EXWM. The days of "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" are well behind us; one can easily afford to run two (or many more) emacsen. And it can't be that much more bloated than, say, kwin...
- dargscisyhp 2y agoBeen using it for a couple of years, and in practice it does not cause me much trouble, at least not for me.
- Dibby053 2y agoCan you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.
- quotemstr 2y agoSingle-threaded? Not anymore!
- hermitsings 2y agoI created this custom keymap that goes well with EXWM: https://codeberg.org/hermitsings/Kmonad_ISO_keymap_for_minimal_hand_finger_movement_EXWM_Guix_Windows https://codeberg.org/hermitsings/Kmonad_ISO_keymap_for_minim... This is to reduce lateral wrist movement (to protect from Carpal Tunnel) and general finger movement. Just posting here if folks wanna check it out.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIs there a visualization of the layout somewhere?
- hermitsings 2y agoYup, the files in the repo--the layout is in there. It's currently for ISO keyboards (I have ISO), but you can modify it for ANSI!
- djaouen 2y agoI hesitated to post here (because it seems like I have been flagged as only posting on troll topics), but decided to anyway because I don't want anyone else to know about this overpowered setup!
- Alive-in-2025 2y agoWhat does this mean, especially in reference to this story
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- jmclnx 2y agoI played with this decades ago (maybe another Emacs based WM?). It was fun for a while but I moved on. I thought it was abandoned. I will need to give it another go and glad to see it back among the living :)
- BobbyTables2 2y agoI’m surprised there aren’t Emacs packages for the X server itself and a bootloader…
- hulitu 2y agoEmacs hasn't evolved. The browser took further the idea of Emacs becoming the OS.
- smitty1e 2y agoPackaged as a Spacemacs layer => https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/LAYERS.html#exwm https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/LAYERS.html#exwm
- rahen 2y agoObligatory System Crafter videos: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfKrrTtyOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfKrrTtyOk
- SuperNinKenDo 2y agoReally enjoyed my time using EXWM. Had to move to Wayland for a number of reasons, and really miss it. KDE Plasma has been fantastic, but I do miss the integrated scripting environment. Ironically I now use a heavily frames-based Emacs set up, and eschew most of Emacs internal window management capabilities.
- quotemstr 2y agoI seriously considered making Emacs a wlroots compositor last time I had a chunk of free time.
- penguin_booze 2y agoI wished PuTTY offered some kind of tiling window manager for my SSH sessions. Does anyone know something of that sort?
- looofooo0 2y agoYou can ssh from emacs.
- Shared404 2y agoFor sessions on the same target host you could use tmux.
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- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoPuTTY, probably not. But if you're using Windows, the built-in Terminal supposedly supports panes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/panes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/panes Combine that with the built-in ssh client, that might be good enough for you. Personally, I have to run Windows at work but I'm allowed a local linux VM, so I run that headless, ssh into it, and run tmux for pane/window support.