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I'm starting to really like tiling window managers. I never got into them on Pop!_OS because they felt clunky. I've been a longtime macOS user, but I never used workspaces there since I found them hard to navigate. I've always just used one workspace with all my windows stacked on top of each other. I like them floating. Until now.

With Hyprland, I've grown fond of a keyboard-only setup with customized tiles that I can move around and tweak as I like. I have one "nerd" workspace with a browser and four terminals, one for music, one for messaging, and so on. It feels great to be learning something new.

#Linux #Hyprland #TilingWindowManager

mcg

@mcg@social.lol replied · last week

@rolle Might be worth searching around for Hyperland being a toxic community. And if you’re using Omarchy, that as well.

bestest

@bestest@mstdn.social replied · last week

@rolle Long time tiling window manager user here. I love how elegant they are.

I used to use i3 and xmonad, but switched to sway when i got laptops and monitors that require fractional scaling.

I also used yabai with mac on my previous work mac. It was usable but janky. Better than regular mac windowing thing which is just bad.

schme

@schme@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · last week

@rolle How's the setup overall on Hyprland?

I'm trying very hard to like Pop!_OS tiling system with the premise of easy Gnome integration. Easy float exclusion is also nice. But after i3 it feels very clunky and rarely do I get it to do what I want.

But then again, not having a good DE to back i3 forces a lot of maintenance and setup I could do without.

Would Hyprland be somewhere in the middle?

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen

@rolle@mementomori.social replied · last week

@schme Yes, it's somewhere in the middle! Setting it up is not very nice, but worth it. I recently switched from Pop!_OS to a minimal Arch setup with Hyprland. When you first install Hyprland, it gives you nothing... just an empty space and one terminal. It takes some effort to customize, but now I have a full tiling manager at my fingertips.

I configured it so that when I press the SUPER key once, I get my floating windows back (among other things). It works kind of like GNOME's overview feature (triggered by the SUPER key), but I can actually tile windows *within* the overview. I also installed DMS (https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell) because I'm so used to having a dock and top bar.

With these, it feels like a GNOME-style desktop environment even though it's Hyprland. Some things are even better designed than in GNOME, to be honest.

schme

@schme@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · last week

@rolle That SUPER key setup sounds sweet!

Might have to give it a go, once I'm prepared to distrohop again.

> Please note that Hyprland uses the C++26 standard, so both your compiler and your C++ standard library has to support that (gcc>=15 or clang>=19).

Looks like trying it in a Debian based setup would be more trouble than worth 😅

Roni Rolle Laukkarinen

@rolle@mementomori.social replied · last week

@schme Once you go Arch, you never go back. I don't know how I survived before without these bleeding edge packages.

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