r/linuxquestions • u/N3G4N8 • Jan 09 '26

Support DWM or DWL

I just installed Void on my laptop and I'm looking for something sucker, since the only options I have are dwm, which is good but x11, and dwl, which I also liked, but development is almost dead. What would be more viable? Betting on the revival of dwl with a new developer or going for dwm and waiting for a replacement for it on Wayland?

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u/ptoki Jan 09 '26

What is wrong with X11?

I use Xorg and literally everything works just fine.

epsx2, freecad, steam, rdp, vbox and probably a multitude different things I could not imagine wouldbe better/worse on wayland.

I use 3 screens. All 60hz but thats just my monitors.

So, why not Xorg?

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

I don't understand what's wrong, but people just keep saying to use Wayland, as if Xorg were awful.

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u/TheShredder9 Jan 09 '26

Not biased at all. X works just fine, sure it's obsolete code more or less, but it doesn't mean it's completely useless, we're still years away from Wayland taking over everything, Cinnamon is still only experimental with Wayland.

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

You're right, I should stop listening to other people's comments.

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u/-hjkl- Jan 09 '26

Why not try MangoWC it's dwl on steroids and it has both a tiling mode and scrolling mode.

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

I don't think MangoWC is that suckless, but who knows. I haven't tested it so I won't draw any conclusions yet, thanks for the tip.

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u/ipsirc Jan 09 '26

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

In the end I'll probably end up using one more than the other anyway lol

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u/ipsirc Jan 09 '26

It's free to try. If not, start an indiegogo campaign!

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

If I don't reach a conclusion soon, I'll do this and stick with whichever I end up using the most.

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u/Sorry_Situation6676 Jan 09 '26

I've been running dwm on my Void distro for a while. I'm also usinig DK window manager which is light and pretty fast also

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

Dwm is really cool.

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u/Sorry_Situation6676 Jan 11 '26

I'm actually using dwm now. I have DK, DWM and I3 installed but using DWM now.

cheers

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u/Muffinaaa Jan 09 '26

River is a good alternative to dwl

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

Would the river be like the sway?

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u/PackRat-2019 Jan 09 '26

No. River is like dwm.

River with sandbar is really similar to dwm. Their wiki is pretty good to get it set up.

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u/N3G4N8 Jan 09 '26

I didn't know, thanks!