Imagine using something based on X when Sway is right there :smirking face:
Sway’s ibus support is not great and most things that rely on the tray don’t work. I’m eagerly waiting to switch but half my workflow doesn’t work with it
I honestly love i3. It doesn’t do everything but it lets me spam workspaces to my hearts content. I have awful short term memory so its great when I need to go back and forth repeatedly to look at a reference.
Fucking yes. I also have Compton (picom) installed and just switching between workspaces is so addictive. Besides, it’s just really efficient for the kind of stuff I do on my laptop, and the keybindings are a blessing.
I have compton just for transparent terminals. Probably not a wise use of resources but w/e. I love the ease in adding key bindings through the i3config and not needing to learn an additional programming language to modify it slightly. I have a friend who runs awesomewm and he’s like “oh yeah just write lua scripts to move the time over here”. I dont have the time for that, basic i3status is plenty fine for me.
I don’t like transparency much but I noticed a little tearing and lagging on Firefox if I have vlc running on bare openbox and i3. Goes away when I have Compton so I use Compton.
Also yeah, i3 probably has the easiest config of them all. Openbox is easy too but XML is a bit of an eyesore. I like both of them, and openbox is even lighter but I really need my tiling.
i3 is a great wm for getting started with tiling. Recently I switched to herbstluftwm on my laptop and I prefer its tiling over i3.
