BSPWM (deepish thoughts)

Solarmass

I see it could be useful on ultra-widescreen monitors. On my 16:9 monitor I mostly use 2 windows side-by-side. If you add a 3rd window, it would become less practical. And I prefer to have some apps in maximized window mode, like browsers, or floating window mode for other apps.

brent

Solarmass I see it could be useful on ultra-widescreen monitors. On my 16:9 monitor I mostly use 2 windows side-by-side. If you add a 3rd window, it would become less practical. And I prefer to have some apps in maximized window mode, like browsers, or floating window mode for other apps.

I get what you are saying. If I tailor bspwm it will be with a single-minded plan with a single monitor: a workflow with 3-4 tiles for maximum workflow. I really want to see how the other side lives (🙂) and see if one can accomplish more without a conventional DE.

Or is a tiling manager just a fetish😉.

Solarmass

For me a task list with windows labels on the panel is more efficient. It's like tabs in the browser, can your BSPWM panel do that?

brent

Solarmass . It's like tabs in the browser, can your BSPWM panel do that?

if I amend the conf file, make the superkey+ bindings, then actually remember the bindings, then maybe🙂

ReillyBrogan

FWIW bspwm is unlikely to ever be updated to support Wayland so I'd probably focus on learning a tiling WM that is already Wayland-native like Sway or labwc

brent

ReillyBrogan FWIW bspwm is unlikely to ever be updated to support Wayland so I'd probably focus on learning a tiling WM that is already Wayland-native like Sway or labwc

thank you I will. the selling point of BSPWM is the windows don't butt up against each other. you can always see the desktop behind. I heard no other tiler had this quality. hope I'm wrong.
Same deal with sway? pull in picom, dunst, swaybar etc and manually config?

synth-ruiner I assume bspwm does workspaces too? I can't imagine why not, anyway...

they probably do. aside from my own keybindings I am 99% raw noob. hopefull learn a little every day. If there is workplaces then I can commit to the 3/4-window setting I am envisioning

Solarmass On the screenshot (top-left corner) you can see 10 workspaces.

I had no idea what that was thank you🙂

synth-ruiner

brent these beasts were built for people with 2 screens I think. because after 4 open quadrants (windows) on one screen (that's all I own) it gets small and complicated.

on i3 I use lots of workspaces. I hate multi-monitor setups, although a tiling keyboard-only setup might make it okay.

I'll have a workspace for chat, email and terminal windows, another one for a web browser, another one for an IDE etc.

I assume bspwm does workspaces too? I can't imagine why not, anyway...

Solarmass

synth-ruiner I assume bspwm does workspaces too? I can't imagine why not, anyway...

I think every tiling DEs (and non-tiling) have workspaces. On the screenshot (top-left corner) you can see 10 workspaces.

synth-ruiner

brent thank you I will. the selling point of BSPWM is the windows don't butt up against each other. you can always see the desktop behind. I heard no other tiler had this quality. hope I'm wrong.

on i3 you can have gaps, and I think it's the same for sway (I can see some screenshots that look like that). I have a 10px gap, it looks nice (although slightly annoying when hunting for a scrollbar with the mouse)

brent

@ReillyBrogan or anyone really

reading conflicting articles in DDG re: sway (wayland) andlightdm. conflicting as in 'compatible with lightdm/incompatible with lightdm.

can anyone shed some light? graci--

EDIT from sparky linux sway install page

so lightdm is wayland-imcompatible and only runs in X and I have to marry Budgie to GDM to use it as intended?
Do I want to marry Budgie to GDM? that seems uncomfortable. Or SDDM?

craigtoyoracer

brent Budgie is working to Wayland at some point. 🙂

https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/wayland

brent

synth-ruiner I have a 10px gap, it looks nice

I forgot: config config config🙂 you could do almost anything.

brent

synth-ruiner when I keep reading that Sway is a "drop in" for I3 what does that mean? the apps just get swapped? and you keep you installed components (picom xx-bar etc) and their configs?

by that measure one would think sway could be a "drop in" for any tiling WM given the person keeps the elements/configs of the stuff they dragged (picom, xx-bar, etc) into the WM. I'm new to this so I will have dumb questions the rest of this year🙂

synth-ruiner

brent I think the idea is that your i3 config files can be copied directly across and used as Sway config files, but I haven't had any success in setting up Sway yet so this is just theoretical as far as I know!