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Would you recommend EXWM as daily driver? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months 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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[–] J-ky@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have been using exwm for about 2 years, there are some weirdness. When it comes to switching buffer preview with consult, the minibuffer loses focus when in a firefox buffer. And the support for wine application is utterly garbage, sometimes, I cannot even type in the wine application. In my dual monitors setup, I have to do some workaround to switch between monitor easily.

I have been trying other keyboard-centric window managers, like i3, dwm, stumpwm. None of them even come close to the integration of Emacs by exwm.

If I have time, I may try to fix the above issues myself, since the exwm has been abandoned by the author for quite some years, and the current maintainer kindly took over to accept pull request.

[–] Zwzhhh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

For the lost focus in x windows, you may try (setq x-no-window-manager t).