Q: Linux compositors / tiling WMs:
- I have 2x27" monitors, and have used GNOME for many years
- I am a big user of workspaces: One activity per workspace, *ACROSS BOTH MONITORS*
- I want to seriously give a (wayland?) WM a go, and have tried hyprland and niri
- I cannot seem to capture my mental model / workflow with these WMs. I love the tiling (clean, space efficient + KB driven), but the workspaces are *PER MONITOR*
What am I missing?
@oschonrock Hmm at least on sway it would be easy to work around the issue as you could assign some workspaces (1, 2, 3, etc.) to output one, some to output two (11, 12, 13, etc.), and then modify your shortcuts for switching workspaces to change workspaces on both outputs at once (i.e. `bindsym $mod+1 workspace number 1, workspace number 11` to switch to workspace "1"). And then configure whatever bar you are using to hide this.
Similar workarounds might exist on niri and hyprland?
yeah, that's a good call. Might be an idea to try sway anyway
https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/compare/packages/hyprland,sway,niri
probably simpler and more stable?
I installed niri with Dank Material Shell, then it complained about needing a newer Quickshell for "idle detect => suspend", so I upgraded to qs-git, and the machine started leaking so much memory, it's all over my floor now... 😂
@oschonrock Oh yeah, sway is extremely stable and light on resources, but it lacks some eyecandy (rounded corners, window animations, etc.). If that tradeoff is worth it for you I'd definitely recommend it.
Its config is compatible with that of i3 (except for X11 specific options), so there are plenty of resources about it online too. Never used quickshell but it should work fine with sway (according to a brief online search).
Oliver Schönrock
Felix Pehla