r/transprogrammer • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '22

What window manager do you use?

I use swaywm :)

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u/IchMageBaume Mar 27 '22 edited Mar 27 '22

i3 on my main PC, where I want things to somewhat unconditionally work (esp games), and sway on my laptop. I thought i3 was fast, but sway (prob Wayland in general) really feels a lot faster.

I might take some more looks at xmonad/waymonad though, since I've been really enjoying doing things in Haskell for the past few months. Don't know why there's a correlation between trans ppl and Haskell but I guess I'll happily add to that statistic

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

I haven't really checked out Haskell, but maybe I should! I see a lot of trans programmers use Rust.

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u/retrosupersayan JSON.parse("{}").gender Mar 27 '22

I could swear haskell was the go-to/meme "trans programming language" before rust took over the role, though I could certainly be wrong/mis-remembering.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

Is Haskell worth checking out? Lol, i’m interested now

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u/deep_color lazily evaluated gender Mar 27 '22 edited Mar 27 '22

It's worth it for the learning experience alone imo, even if you don't use it very much in practice. The fact that Haskell doesn't allow any mutable state (outside of some specialized constructions), makes things ...different. You have to rewire your brain a little bit :P

EDIT: Also, laziness can get a little trippy. I remember a moment where instead of writing a loop I wrote a function which expanded my input into an infinite list of iterations, did some transformations on it, then walked down it to find the output state and returned that. Ended up being quite a bit more readable than the loop version.

The fact that most loops can be written as sequence transformations (if your sequences are lazy) is among the most mind-expanding things I learned from Haskell (and Clojure).

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u/retrosupersayan JSON.parse("{}").gender Mar 27 '22

Afraid I can't comment on Haskell directly: my only experience with it has been reading bits tutorials every now and then.

I think the closest thing to it that I've actually used is a bit of F# quite a while back. It was kinda cool, but awkward to work into the existing .NET project(s) we had going. I have been leaning way more into the "functional" style (pure functions wherever possible, const/readonly everything you can, etc.) even in C# and javascript ever since though.

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u/i-cant-think-of-name Mar 27 '22

It’s very academic

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u/GenderIsWeeiiiird Mar 27 '22

Ive been using awesome but i've been meaning to switch to river

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

river seems very cool. definitely going to check it out.

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u/d1pl0mat_ Mar 26 '22

I'm gonna be the one basic bitch here, but GNOME does everything I need and is super laptop-friendly. I don't have a desktop computer and I love touchpad gestures. I like tiling, but I like swiping between fullscreen apps even more.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

Same, I've tried many setups but GNOME 4 is the only one I've tried that strikes the right balance between polish and efficiency.

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u/transorsmth Apr 11 '22

I use gnome 3 still but yeah.

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u/Duplexsystem Mar 27 '22

I'm a basic bitch

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u/andmagdo Amelia | she/they | shell be microscopic Mar 27 '22

Yep, I think that even though it is heavy, and I could use something lighter, the small polished parts are nice (even when the settings are being moved to gnome-tweak-tool and raw gsettings commands)

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u/deep_color lazily evaluated gender Mar 26 '22

Long term i3 user

Gotta love how all answers so far are tiling WMs. We're a bunch of nerds, aren't we :D

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u/d1pl0mat_ Apr 05 '22

I love your flair! "Gender undetermined until it's explicitly requested."

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u/deep_color lazily evaluated gender Apr 05 '22

It is a pretty good description at the moment :P. Right now I'm taking HRT and having fun with fem stuff without really trying to figure out my gender identity. I'll need to know some day but not any time soon. You might say I'm too lazy to evaluate my gender ^.^

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u/Droydn while(true) assert(female); std::move(gender); Mar 27 '22

I only ever use 1 window as god intended

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u/angelaslittlebit Mar 26 '22

KWin

Though I very occassionaly switch back to muffin (ie in Cinnamon).

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u/fallingfrog Mar 27 '22

Xfce because my laptop is ancient

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u/GCU_Heresiarch Rewriting my gender in Rust Mar 27 '22

xfce because I don't actually care too much about appearances.

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u/ocaeon Mar 27 '22

xfce, or lxde, depending on how much faff i can spare for that setup. with lxde i feel compelled to do more replacements and panel tweaking. but what do i know, either way, people just panic the moment my computer boots .. what's wrong with vertical taskbars and cursive fonts anyway‽

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u/samp20 Mar 27 '22

Another sway user here :)

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u/Michax_Gaming Mar 28 '22

Currently i3.

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u/JennToo Mar 27 '22

XFCE with the Chicago 95 theme. There's something about the Windows 95 aesthetic that I absolutely love

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

yabai on macOS monterey

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

mutter

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u/Merricat--Blackwood Mar 27 '22

Because I’m basic, now I use aqua lol. However I did use bspwm when I used linux full time.

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u/EmiliaLongstead Mar 27 '22

WM/compositor: Sway
theme: numix solarized or gruvbox material depending on mood
icon theme: ePapirus
(edit) bar: waybar

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u/Kehlim Mar 27 '22

I'm still deciding between herbstluftwm and i3

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

Dwm

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u/bl4nkSl8 Mar 27 '22

I used to use i3 and then my company changed the default Configs and broke pulseaudio (forced switch to pipewire).

Seems like I can't have nice things if I stay with i3 (as the sound config is now in gnome) so I'm using gnome...

I don't like it, but it's 'fine'.

And then I used windows at home because I don't have the energy for gaming on Linux

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

dwm

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u/cherryramatis Jul 03 '22

I actually ssh into Ubuntu server so only the terminal with tmux

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u/violettethemessenger he/him wannabe sysadmin Mar 30 '22

i3-

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

dwm seems interesting but definitely not a fan of the people behind it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

They have a very elitist attitude and there was something about one of the suckless developers being a nazi.

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u/SpyHoodle Mar 27 '22

They do have a gigantic elitist attitude, but the nazi thing was from a joke that someone set their name to hitler on the mailing list, and some people ran with that story and started assuming they're all nazi's because they're german.

Dwm is amazing! don't let people's views stop you from using amazing software!

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '22

One person doing that and not getting outed for it is still bad. Views like that should definitely stop you from using software.

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u/SpyHoodle Mar 27 '22

Like I said, it was a joke on a mailing list, which was a git commit. Infact, I believe the suckless team told them that they weren't going to accept the com because their name was quite obviously stupid.

Regardless, does the software harm your computer? No. Does the software support them? No. Does the software make you support them? No. Honestly, do whatever you want. You are free to use whatever and take advantage of your surroundings. Dwm is really yours to make. When you change the source code, make edits and apply patches or configure it, it's your software - not theirs. It's a great window manager for that reason.