Spectrwm Is An Impressive Tiling Window Manager DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Matt
DT thank you very much for this content.
I was using i3 but not for very long because I found it unintuitive for me. I probable spent more time customizing it than actually using it, because I always missed something. Manual tiling was too cumbersome for me and it felt like a lot of unnecesary work. You made me curious about other tiling WM's. After a while of watching your content, I decided that DWM should work for me, but I was afraid of wasting 5+ evenings patching the beast until it is somewhat usable. Spectrwm is pretty close and the config is much much easier, it works flawlessly. Now it is my daily driver - about a month in - and it feels so natural... I don't even think about it when using it. Thanks for giving it a heads-up.
I think spectrwm stands in the middle ground of being very user-friendly and easily customizable (even easier to customize than i3 IMO) but at the same time being pretty minimal and very KISS in nature.
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DT thank you very much for this content.
I was using i3 but not for very long because I found it unintuitive for me. I probable spent more time customizing it than actually using it, because I always missed something. Manual tiling was too cumbersome for me and it felt like a lot of unnecesary work. You made me curious about other tiling WM's. After a while of watching your content, I decided that DWM should work for me, but I was afraid of wasting 5+ evenings patching the beast until it is somewhat usable. Spectrwm is pretty close and the config is much much easier, it works flawlessly. Now it is my daily driver - about a month in - and it feels so natural... I don't even think about it when using it. Thanks for giving it a heads-up.
I think spectrwm stands in the middle ground of being very user-friendly and easily customizable (even easier to customize than i3 IMO) but at the same time being pretty minimal and very KISS in nature.
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Jon
I like that they have gone for easy customisation out of the box! Thanks for a good intro. Does spectrewm have the ability to spawn new windows as master, while pushing other windows down the stac? That is literally the only thing that keeps me using dwm as I'm sick of patching and the pretentiousness of suckless. But I don't understand how the dwm people seem to be the only TWM developers who agree with me that it makes little sense to pull up a window to do something only to have it spawn as a thin strip somewhere in the corner. Having to then bring that window to the master position just involves extra key presses. Personally I much prefer getting right into whatever I need to do, and then just hit mod+enter to bring back the previous window as master again.
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I like that they have gone for easy customisation out of the box! Thanks for a good intro. Does spectrewm have the ability to spawn new windows as master, while pushing other windows down the stac? That is literally the only thing that keeps me using dwm as I'm sick of patching and the pretentiousness of suckless. But I don't understand how the dwm people seem to be the only TWM developers who agree with me that it makes little sense to pull up a window to do something only to have it spawn as a thin strip somewhere in the corner. Having to then bring that window to the master position just involves extra key presses. Personally I much prefer getting right into whatever I need to do, and then just hit mod+enter to bring back the previous window as master again.
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Vinicius
Hello, I really enjoy your videos!
I Have one question, I installed and got your config to test it, but even if my modkey is Mod4 (Windows Key), when I press Alt+up or Alt+down and it changes the current workspace. Since I have alt as shorcut for other softwares I use I would like to remove this behaviour, but I cannot seem to find this kyebinding in the configuration file, does the same happen to you? Thank you!
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Hello, I really enjoy your videos!
I Have one question, I installed and got your config to test it, but even if my modkey is Mod4 (Windows Key), when I press Alt+up or Alt+down and it changes the current workspace. Since I have alt as shorcut for other softwares I use I would like to remove this behaviour, but I cannot seem to find this kyebinding in the configuration file, does the same happen to you? Thank you!
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David
For me, if it doesn't look like POP OS-- it's WORTHLESS-- i'm not fooling with all that coding bullsh... ti's a WASTE of time...I get EXTREMELY sick of looking at nothing but a screen full of words.. that's BS.. When you're my age especially-- one eye blind and the other not so hot.. and me trying to see nothing but a freakin screen of CRAP.. NO THANKS-- if it doesn't look like POS OS screen tiling- it's NOT SH...
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For me, if it doesn't look like POP OS-- it's WORTHLESS-- i'm not fooling with all that coding bullsh... ti's a WASTE of time...I get EXTREMELY sick of looking at nothing but a screen full of words.. that's BS.. When you're my age especially-- one eye blind and the other not so hot.. and me trying to see nothing but a freakin screen of CRAP.. NO THANKS-- if it doesn't look like POS OS screen tiling- it's NOT SH...
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PolGZ
Hey, DT, why super+shift+c? - why do you want 3 keys to do something that is soooooo much needed everyday? I'm really Super+Q kinda guy, and I always found super+shift+C like too long to be so much used. Explain your thoughts (because if I liked the C for close, I would happily give up on any app to have Super+C on its own. One is constantly closing windows!)
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Hey, DT, why super+shift+c? - why do you want 3 keys to do something that is soooooo much needed everyday? I'm really Super+Q kinda guy, and I always found super+shift+C like too long to be so much used. Explain your thoughts (because if I liked the C for close, I would happily give up on any app to have Super+C on its own. One is constantly closing windows!)
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Brandon
There's a way to use colors and fonts for unicode.
- First install spectrwm-git from the aur.
- In the variables -bar_font- and -bar_font_color- create a comma separated list.
- When formatting use -+-fg=n;- and -+-bg=n;- for foreground and background color respectively.
- For fonts use -+-fn=n;-
n=[0-1]
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There's a way to use colors and fonts for unicode.
- First install spectrwm-git from the aur.
- In the variables -bar_font- and -bar_font_color- create a comma separated list.
- When formatting use -+-fg=n;- and -+-bg=n;- for foreground and background color respectively.
- For fonts use -+-fn=n;-
n=[0-1]
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Red
i don't understand this WM i just downloaded to try it. and i changed mod to mod4 and i did a little bit to it mainly uncommented lines but it's like the config doesn't work or something. i tried it with the .spectrwm and without the . and i looked up your config and i didn't see anything different with mine.
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i don't understand this WM i just downloaded to try it. and i changed mod to mod4 and i did a little bit to it mainly uncommented lines but it's like the config doesn't work or something. i tried it with the .spectrwm and without the . and i looked up your config and i didn't see anything different with mine.
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William
Thanks for a very informative and inspiring video, I have been meaning to try a tiling wm and after watching this I will go ahead. BTW the reason the Spectrwm code is so well-written and documented is that it is developed by the OpenBSD people. I believe that its former name was Scrotwm. Cheers, Bill
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Thanks for a very informative and inspiring video, I have been meaning to try a tiling wm and after watching this I will go ahead. BTW the reason the Spectrwm code is so well-written and documented is that it is developed by the OpenBSD people. I believe that its former name was Scrotwm. Cheers, Bill
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Vadym
I installed manjaro+xfce, and i want to switch from xfce to spectrwm. I downloaded spectrwm but when I choose it on login screen it's just show me black screen for a second and return to login screen. How can I fix it? (I already checked arch wiki: specrtwm and spectrwm github page)
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I installed manjaro+xfce, and i want to switch from xfce to spectrwm. I downloaded spectrwm but when I choose it on login screen it's just show me black screen for a second and return to login screen. How can I fix it? (I already checked arch wiki: specrtwm and spectrwm github page)
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Ty
I've been using i3wm and tried dwm.
Now I've installed Spectrwm and like it better than the others.
No patching to death; and no adding a dozen dependencies.
Slackware has several window managers included but not a tiling wm. Spectrwm would be nice to have out of the box.
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I've been using i3wm and tried dwm.
Now I've installed Spectrwm and like it better than the others.
No patching to death; and no adding a dozen dependencies.
Slackware has several window managers included but not a tiling wm. Spectrwm would be nice to have out of the box.
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