Kerr Avonsen (she/her)Aug 13, 2025

One of the things which frustrates me no end, is that every single #Tiling #WindowManager I've ever seen on #Linux is designed with the assumption that "simple" and "pretty" are mutually exclusive.

The closest I've come to "pretty" is XMonad, because at least that allows you to have colour schemes, and to change the width of the (flat) window borders. Most of the others don't even allow that much.

But maybe things have changed since I last looked? Do any of you know of a tiling window manager which is actually PRETTY? Like, 3-dimensional window borders and other things one can customise the look of?

#AskFedi

Show threadBrain_Fr33zeAug 13, 2025
@kerravonsen omarchy.org
Show threadKerr Avonsen (she/her)Aug 13, 2025
@Brain_Fr33ze You mean https://hypr.land/ ? (I don't use Arch, so Omarchy would not be quite it for me).
Oh my, rounded corners! I must look into this, obviously.
Show threadBrain_Fr33zeAug 13, 2025
@kerravonsen what distro are you using? There is an ubuntu version
Show threadKerr Avonsen (she/her)
@Brain_Fr33ze
Debian, currently. Was using Ubuntu until they broke unison, or was it gimp? Was using Sabayon until they stopped updating and ran off. (If someone else comes up with a binary Gentoo-based system, I would love to know. Because I really like the way that Gentoo deals with system-config-file updates.)
Aug 13, 2025 at 7:02amWeb