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I tend to like i3. But all the cool kids on arch are using herbstluft. To me, Haskell and Lua are turn-offs so xmonad and awesome are out. I don't want to have
by tbrock 13y ago
I tend to like i3. But all the cool kids on arch are using herbstluft.
To me, Haskell and Lua are turn-offs so xmonad and awesome are out. I don't want to have to learn a programming language to configure my window manager. Straight up well documented C and old school configuration files are the way to go. Plus the tutorial/intro video gets you going quickly.
- iends 13y agoI've never heard of herbstluft. What makes all the cool arch kids drawn to it? (the fact I've never heard of it?)
- mjn 13y agoOne thing that's interestingly unixy about it is that all configuration/interaction is done via a CLI program, herbstclient, which interacts with herbstserver, rather than via config files or an embedded scripting language. So config and scripting is then typically done via a bash script, or whatever other way you prefer to call a series of herbstclient commands. Otherwise its UI model is fairly typical for "manual" (i.e. not auto-layout) tiling WMs.