Hello all, looking for a good autotiling window manager that is wayland based but is NOT hyprland. Sway seems to be an option but I don’t really want to install a plugin to make it autotile… Anyway, does anybody else have any other suggestions?
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I do recommend sway if you don’t find an alternative, it works really well. But yeah, no auto-tiling by default.
Can I ask why are you against Hyprland ?EDIT: The arch wiki has a list
Thought it was common knowledge at this point…
Creator of hyperland:
[A trans person] joined the Discord server and made a big deal out of their pronouns […] because they put their pronouns in their nickname and made a big deal out of them because people were referring to them as “he” [misgendering them], which, on the Internet, let’s be real, is the default. And so, one of the moderators changed the pronouns in their nickname to “who/cares”. […] Let’s be real, this isn’t like, calling someone the N-word or something.
a screenshot from their discord:
Was this an isolated incident? Did it have consequences later on? Was the mod removed from the Discord?
Could you provide a link to the source you copied this from?
The Sway website only links to an IRC chat, not Discord. https://swaywm.org/
Same in the official subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1fk968u/sway_discord_or_matrix_or_irc_server/ Only IRC, no Discord.
Found the link you got this from https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
It doesn’t mention Sway.
The reaction to this incident were a new code of conduct, new mods, apologies, and more. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges
I currently use niri but I’ve looked at mangowc as well https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc
mango is pretty sick, but im sticking with niri for now. theres something about the simplicity of it that just feels right for everyday use.
looking forward to mangowc getting more popular and maybe some updates to the overview and id look at giving it a go.
Try mangowc. Pretty new but promising. Also has scrolling if you’re into that.
window manager that is wayland based
The term you want is “compositor” rather than “window manager”. Under Wayland, the relatively-modest role of the X11 window manager has been replaced by the larger compositor, which does a superset of what window managers did.
I don’t really want to install a plugin to make it autotile
I don’t know what “autotiling” is. Looking online, I see various people using the term for different things. A script for sway uses this term and states that it automatically-selects between horizontal or vertical splitting orientation based on the currently-focused window dimensions. Is this the functionality that you’re asking for?
Have you tried Niri? It scrolls!
Haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard good things.
been using niri for a couple months and i really prefer it to KDE Plasma now, and i LOVE KDE
I actually took the advice here and used niri and it works great!
right on! cool to hear this update.
the new trend in custom quickshells is pretty interesting. you might want to check out dank material shell or noctalia shell. even if you dont end up using their bars, you can get some cool themeing, lock screen and widgets from either. cheers!
I use Sway and can really recommend it.
I would suggest bspwm.
https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bspwm
…haven’t really used it (I use Hyprland), but heard of it several times. I did saw a few people using it, and it looked quite impressive after properly configuring.
