Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.
Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?
I’ve played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.
Sway and foot work pretty decently. Might want to check them out.
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In case you’re already using emacs I wouldn’t bother with a separate pdf viewer - pdf-tools for emacs is imo the best PDF viewer nowadays available on linux.
imv looks good, thanks for the link
I’m a bit confused, I left Reddit to escape emacs users…should I be on kbin instead?
I use hyprland and kitty on my modern desktop and my 12 year old i3 laptop.
If you want to have a really minimal Wayland compositor take a look at dwl
Most of my machines are KDE on X, but I have one where I’ve been feeling stuff out in Wayland-land. The most appealing thing I’ve tried has been Hyprland with Waybar. It’s a little bit of a kit in traditional WM fashion, but easy to configure from straightforward config files, fairly light, and not “Just like this X WM, but broken because of missing Wayland functionality” (I know, I know, it’s not technically Wayland deficiencies, its “not yet complete extensions”, because it’s all extensions, the Wayland protocol itself does almost nothing).
I’ve been using Kitty for a terminal emulator and it’s pleasing as well.
I haven’t found a launcher I love, I have fuzzel right now and the only major issue is it doesn’t currently support mouse interaction, and I prefer a “use whichever input device your hand is on at the time” to keyboard-only.
How does hyperland configuration compare to sway? Or is it exactly the same?
stacking wm -> wayfire
tiling wm -> sway [corrected, i don’t know what was going through my mind]
terminal emulator -> alacritty or foot
Sway is a tiling wm and wayfire looks like a floating wm to me. I don’t know what a „stacking“ wm is, but afaik you can stack in sway.
Please don’t blame the lack of popularity, Vivarium works and its feature complete. The dev answers to the recent github issues.
i3-like WMs are underfeatured and Hyprland is less minimal than Vivarium.
Thanks, looks cool.
I find i3 & dwm a bit much out of the box and need to remove titles, borders & hide the status bar. Hyprland had a lot going on, will check out Vivarium.
