Currently setting up a wayland environment. Coming from xfce4 and cinnamon before that. I’m currently setting up a window manager for keybindings (i know about river-classic, but seem to have chosen the masochist’s path for this excursion). would appreciate any advice you have about setting up the window manager. I’ve previous experience with writing a cinnamon inspired dynamic tiler, will that help here? would also appreciate tips on choosing things like toolbars, launchers, and setting themes. We’re still in gtk territory, right?

Thanks for any time you spend on this thread! Maybe I can re rewrite this, or compile a new thread with your advices.

  • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 hours ago

    river is cool but it’s heavily modular. i love it.

    first off, you should choose a window manager. there’s a list on their page. for example, rill is a scrolling wm like niri. there are also stacking and tiling wms on that list.

    then you should also install some tools. their wiki also includes a brief list.

    • a bar (e.g. waybar)
    • an output manager (e.g. kanshi)
    • an input manager (e.g. channel)
    • a screen lock tool (e.g. waylock, swaylock)
    • a launcher (e.g. wofi, fuzzel, tofi)
    • a notification daemon (e.g. fnott, mako)
    • a wallpaper tool (e.g. awww, swaybg)

    this would give you a fully working wm.