I wish you the best of luckįorgot to mention I also needed to bind a lot of the commands to some sort of keyboard shortcut, so when I press, for instance, Super+N, it opens the app launcher bar. I had to eventually switch back to gdm3 (GNOME) when I upgraded to 5.10 kernel series and open-source nvidia drivers (nouveau) just stopped recognizing my graphics card. Tiling window managers are usually designed to be used entirely with the keyboard or with keyboard & mouse. I did not enjoy xmonad, just because it seemed too inflexible about window placement (and would have. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. Other tiling wms Ive enjoyed are wmii, dwm, and ion3.
You have to make sure all of the packages are installed and function properly before you actually switch to the new window manager / compositor.Īlthough this probably wouldn't be helpful to you as I use quite an obscure Linux distro (NixOS), my config file may give you an overall idea of what packages you can expect to need to install to get a more or less workable installation (obviously you'd need to find equivalents for your specific tiling manager): here's my sway.nix config file xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. All the settings had to be edited via my text-only config files, though, no nice GUI menu to adjust the settings (as it was unimportant to me). MaxTo Tiles windows on user-defined grid by intercepting windows that are maximized or using hotkeys. I have prior experience with sway (i3 window manager ported to Wayland), and it was fairly straightforward to install it, and I've had packages like the app launcher, background, and everything installed in there. An intelligent Taskbar for multi monitior enviroments and a lot of other window related functions are adon.
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