For Manjaro users. 😊
What edition of Manjaro do you use?
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@strawberryfieldsforever I rarely use monjaro but if i do I install my own WM and dont rely on it being setup for me. Usually i3-gaps these days
@freemo
ah!
I prefer Gnome! 👍
@strawberryfieldsforever If i had to pick between the two biggest WM gnome and plasma id pick gnome as well.. that said I havent been on a mainstream WM in a while. Of the ones listed XFCE would be my top choice, budgie is a good traditional WM too... but yea i3-gaps all the way in practice.
@freemo
is i3 like a barebones WM?
offering lot of customisation? 🤔
@strawberryfieldsforever Yes, but one of the nicest looking minimal WM IMO. But more importantly than the customization itself is that it is a tiling WM, which is a class of WM you probably arent used to. They let you use your keyboard to navigate more easily (though you can still use a mouse) and generally organize your windows for you so you never need to have windows minimized (though you can still minimize them). Generally it means you dont even need window decorations.
Attached are three pictures of tiling WM.. the one with the screen full is QTile and shows what a WM normally looks like when you like it tile naturally. The other two pictures show how you can also resize and place windows manually. The other 2 are i3-gaps. All three pictures are of desktops I configured.
@strawberryfieldsforever I wouldnt say that, plenty of people use it at normal resolution. I just love high-resolution displays and have always used them on any WM I use. Smaller resolution just means youll fit fewer windows on a single workspace, no biggie, there are plenty of workspaces.
@freemo
hey, I cannot read anything! 😂
and why is almost every window showing only text stuff?
It supports other graphic intensive stuff, too, right? 😁
@strawberryfieldsforever lol yes it supports graphical windows just fine. The reason it shows text stuff is because we are nerds and think text stuff is cooler :)
I never used DWM but I've heard of it. Looks good. In my book any tiling WM can be made to look pretty, the choice in minimalistic WM is more like a choice in programming languages, it really just determines what your "code" or "config" looks like and if you enjoy working with it.
I found QTile is a bit nicer for deep customization, but i3, being more popular, was a little easier to get working well out of the box.
No idea where DWM falls in all that, i3, being the most popular choice, wound up meeting my needs so I didnt explore much beyond that.
I even run i3-gaps on my phone with very minimal screen real estate
@freemo @strawberryfieldsforever I only use very minimal customization for dwm. Most software from dwm creators have very good out of the box defaults.
Excellent. Anything about DWM that might convince a i3 user like me to migrate?
@freemo @strawberryfieldsforever This video from a i3 user who switched to dwm is good: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/ud4o2Bnkz4qVK3t3vygCNY
So far into this video what he describes as advantages are the same as the advantages of QTile, same idea the config file is the source code.
ironically thats why i moved from QTile to i3, it was fun to customize and all but was getting tiring redoing on every system. Maybe DWM is a better middle ground for that.
@freemo
that's beautiful! 😊
It's better on a bigger screen?
normally, the windows seem a wee bit small for me to read! 😂