Comment by heresie-dabord

Comment by heresie-dabord 3 days ago

> This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop.

For me it was Debian 12 with Sway (Wayland) followed by Debian 13 with labwc and Sway.

Now I can switch from a tiling window manager (WM) to a floating WM depending on the work task.

tetris11 3 days ago

> labwc and Sway

Is there an option to stay permanently in floating mode, and allow manual placement? I'm stuck on AwesomeWM using just floating windows with easy keybindings for moving them around/resizing, etc. and am looking to jump from X11 to Wayland

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klooney 3 days ago

Why use Awesome with floating windows?

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- KetoManx64 3 days ago
  
  Because it makes no sense to do tiling on a 12" screen, especially when you have keyboard shortcuts to activate/start applications
  
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  michaelmrose 3 days ago
  
  I prefer it still because it makes sense for every window to be maximized at startup. Also one layout that still makes sense is 1 window taking up 100% of the horizontal space and 95% of the vertical save for a small strip for a terminal.
  
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WD-42 3 days ago

I had not heard of labwc before, super cool that it's compatible with openbox themes! Openbox was one of the first "cool wm" I think I used back in the day, probably like 15 years ago now when it supplanted Fluxbox as the dominant *box.

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exe34 3 days ago

nixos for me. broke it once 9 years ago, but I never figured out how.

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