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Would you recommend EXWM as daily driver? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by blureglades@alien.top to c/emacs
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I use dwm in my laptop, but previously used i3wm for a few years. I'm curious about:

  • How well EXWM performs nowadays?
  • Is it resource heavy compared to other tiling window managers?
  • Is it still an issue EXWM not being multi-threaded?

My daily tasks involves just opening chrome, telegram and/or slack, watching movies and coding of course. Would it be a good fit for my needs?

I'd love to know your thoughts if you use or have some previous experience with EXWM. Thank you in advance!

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[–] rfeynman42@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been daily driving EXWM for about 3 years now and I love it. I haven't noticed any performance problems and it should work great for just opening the apps you listed.

EXWM being single-threaded (and just being in Emacs) is still somewhat of an issue in that if you're toying with Emacs and accidentally freeze or crash it, everything else goes down with the ship. It's not that often of a problem in my experience and I personally find the benefits of EXWM totally outweigh this problem.

[–] FreeAd7233@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think if it is okay to open 2 emacs simultaneously (one with EXWM and one that runs within the EXWM)?

What I mean is that if it will bring a lot of headaches, say, key bindings conflicts?

[–] Zwzhhh@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should run the second emacs in char-mode.

[–] rfeynman42@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded (also you can use C-c C-k to quickly do this!). I've debugged Emacs startup errors and segfaults from within EXWM many times this way!