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

    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🙂

      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...

          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.

              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🙂

                      @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?

                        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)

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

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

                              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🙂

                                  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!