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?

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Also requires a plugin, so probably not your thing, but KDE with the Krohnkite KWinScript also works decently well.

    • villainy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Recently switched from sway to niri on my laptop and loving it so far. The tiling+scrolling behavior feels very natural to me.

      • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        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.

  • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    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.

  • GreyCat@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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

    • Cease@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      Thought it was common knowledge at this point…

      Creator of hyperland:

      [A trans person] joined the Discord server and made a big deal out of their pronouns […] because they put their pronouns in their nickname and made a big deal out of them because people were referring to them as “he” [misgendering them], which, on the Internet, let’s be real, is the default. And so, one of the moderators changed the pronouns in their nickname to “who/cares”. […] Let’s be real, this isn’t like, calling someone the N-word or something.

      a screenshot from their discord:

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    window manager that is wayland based

    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 really want to install a plugin to make it autotile

    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?