Window Managers

This community's purpose is to band together users, new users and soon to be users of different window managers with the purpose to help each other out on Lemmy.

As of now I have been subscribing to respective release feeds and the likes to receive fresh updates and post them here, and also some beginner guides I have been brewing for some time now.

Feel free to post anything related and even barely related.

Not expecting this community to grow large as window managers are a comparatively a niche topic, but at least to keep it real and organic.

For any questions or ideas you can send me direct message.

> A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉. Contribute to LGUG2Z/komorebi development by creating an account on GitHub.

This new version brings floating windows and many more improvements. Read those in the release notes

> Yolk is a cross platform dotfile management tool with a unique spin on templating, sitting somewhere in between GNU Stow and chezmoi. > > Have a look at our documentation for more information on how to get started! > > #### The Concept > > Yolk allows you to use simple templates in your configuration files without having to worry about keeping a separate template file and the generated config file in sync. This is achieved through a design that allows all templates to be included inside comments in your actual configuration file.

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Just found out about this project, it should be very useful for users looking to keep dotfiles organized among different machines with ease.

A new version of river has been released, read the ofiicial release notes below:

> This bugfix release fixes a regression introduced in 0.3.6 that prevents adaptive sync/VRR from working properly. It also fixes an assertion failure that can be hit with ~50 days of uptime. > > Full changelog: > > > Isaac Freund (4): > build: bump version to 0.3.7-dev > Output: check scene damage before rendering > river: wrap monotonic time > 2^32-1 milliseconds > build: bump version to 0.3.7 >

When one spend enough time using window managers configuration files can pile up fast.. How do you keep them safe?

• Do you copy to an external drive?
• Do you upload to a cloud service?
• Do you have a dedicated git repository?

I don't need any fancy tiling window managers. One fullscreen window per desktop, and 12 virtual desktops, that was my workflow for 10 years. Then I incorporated KDE activities into my workflow, which are exactly like virtual desktops but switched with Meta-Tab not with Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-F12. Wonderful!

And then, Plasma devs broke it. Switching activities now puts my foreground fullscreen window (one per desktop) into background, and switches keyboard focus to the desktop. Give me back my keyboard shortcuts, and you could also rename Plasma back to KDE while you're at it, thank you very much.

At least there is a bug opened, but it's doubtful that Plasma devs will fix it before Debian 13 release. I can't even find motivation to update my OS anymore.