Looking for a wayland based tiling window manager
Hello all, looking for a good autotiling window manager that is wayland based but is NOT hyprland. Sway seems to be an option but I don't really want to install a plugin to make it autotile... Anyway, does anybody else have any other suggestions?
Have you tried Niri? It scrolls!
Haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good things.
Recently switched from sway to niri on my laptop and loving it so far. The tiling+scrolling behavior feels very natural to me.
Thanks! I'll take a look
yeah +1 for Niri. I love it. in most cases I don't even bother with workspaces anymore because of Niri, makes things easier and the vim nav is perfect. great documentation, it's fast, and very easy to configure.
I do recommend sway if you don't find an alternative, it works really well. But yeah, no auto-tiling by default.
Can I ask why are you against Hyprland ?
EDIT: The arch wiki has a list
Thought it was common knowledge at this point...
Creator of hyperland:
a screenshot from their discord:
Found the link you got this from https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
It doesn’t mention Sway.
The reaction to this incident were a new code of conduct, new mods, apologies, and more. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges
Was this an isolated incident? Did it have consequences later on? Was the mod removed from the Discord?
Could you provide a link to the source you copied this from?
The Sway website only links to an IRC chat, not Discord. https://swaywm.org/
Same in the official subreddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/1fk968u/sway_discord_or_matrix_or_irc_server/ Only IRC, no Discord.
I use Sway and can really recommend it.
There is also river-classic and river 4.0 which has not yet been released.
I currently use niri but I've looked at mangowc as well https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc
mango is pretty sick, but im sticking with niri for now. theres something about the simplicity of it that just feels right for everyday use.
looking forward to mangowc getting more popular and maybe some updates to the overview and id look at giving it a go.
Not a tiling window manager, but would Cosmic possibly serve your usecase?
it can do tiling ig
River!! It's a Wayland dynamic tiler, which sounds like it's what you're looking for. I really like it. I've been using it for a few years and have been happy.
Note that they're currently undergoing a significant rewrite for the 0.4 release which will break people's setups. However, the 0.3 branch will continue to be maintained indefinitely for those who don't want to switch.
I plan to try it when it's ready. Some time next century at this rate.
It is "ready". The 0.3 branch and the 0.4 branch can be thought of as different compositors, and the 0.3 branch is a fully-functional compositor in its own right. Some people will never upgrade to 0.4 because they either prefer 0.3 or can't be bothered to make the transition.
Also the way you quoted that made it sound like the 0.4 release has been a WIP for years. Believe it or not 0.3 was not the first River release... They haven't been planning the RWM release the whole time.
Try mangowc. Pretty new but promising. Also has scrolling if you're into that.
Niri rocks
The term you want is "compositor" rather than "window manager". Under Wayland, the relatively-modest role of the X11 window manager has been replaced by the larger compositor, which does a superset of what window managers did.
I don't know what "autotiling" is. Looking online, I see various people using the term for different things. A script for sway uses this term and states that it automatically-selects between horizontal or vertical splitting orientation based on the currently-focused window dimensions. Is this the functionality that you're asking for?
Also requires a plugin, so probably not your thing, but KDE with the Krohnkite KWinScript also works decently well.
been using niri for a couple months and i really prefer it to KDE Plasma now, and i LOVE KDE
I actually took the advice here and used niri and it works great!
right on! cool to hear this update.
the new trend in custom quickshells is pretty interesting. you might want to check out dank material shell or noctalia shell. even if you dont end up using their bars, you can get some cool themeing, lock screen and widgets from either. cheers!
Why not sway?
I would suggest bspwm.
https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bspwm
…haven’t really used it (I use Hyprland), but heard of it several times. I did saw a few people using it, and it looked quite impressive after properly configuring.
I have this moon here if you'd like it?