alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
Okay give me the short and simple. What window manager should I try. I’m using an off shoot of Fedora.
Hyprland is awesome. Simple config + good out of the box experience
But for almost all tiling managers I recommend you steal your first config from r/unixporn and then just adapt it
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Openbox. Simple and efficient.
I quite like Hyprland
BSPWM + lxqt/ xfce (lxqt recommended)
You’ll also need SXHKD for better and easier shortcut handling
I prefer KMFDM/XKCD.
Linux developers can’t name their products any better than they name their variables.
“Programming done, time to publish, now it just needs a name…” briefly pauses, then smashes face into keyboard… “There! … ehh, no, still missing something.” clicks random spot, types X… “Perfect! Send it!”
For a long time I used the music player ncmpcpp. The name makes perfect sense if you already know what it means and how it relates to other things.
No Cunts Music Player (written in) C Plus Plus. that’s my guess
It did make sense at one point. They implemented a music player with a daemon part and a client part, so from that you had the mpd server and mpc client. Someone wrote an ncurses frontend for the client, naturally called ncmpc. Iirc that person abandoned it and someone else took over with a new iteration. ncmpcpp. But it really is a bad name.
That’s a cool story though. But yeah the name is a bit lettersoupy
To be fair, neither can enterprise outfits.
Teams
New Teams
Teams (new)
Probably more that I forgot
Neither can Nintendo.
3DS
New 3DS
Wii
Wii U
Well, they at least got the name of Switch 2 right. They finally learned.
Will it work with KDE?
On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.
It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.
Technically you could changethe window manager of KDE Plasma to BSPWM, but I wouldn’t recommend it as it is such a tightly knit package