The beauty of river is that you just get to try out WMs :)
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that's so crazy
I was not aware of that repo existing, that's a pretty cool resource to have. Unfortunately i haven't tried any of the river window managers yet. My distro only has the old river still and i haven't bothered packaging anything myself (yet), but i am curious what the experience is like.
I use river and pair it with kwm. Not sure about their LLM policy, but I don't see any gregarious signs of usage in the repo: https://github.com/kewuaa/kwm.
Would recommend to anyone coming from dwm.
I used river for quite some time when I moved over to Wayland from bspwm. I still find it great for configuring from scratch.
No idea what are beansprout and rhine though.
beansprout and rhine are window managers for river, since 0.4 river requires a separate WM to function
Rhine is a river (wm), lol.
Can we please keep naming river wms after irl rivers?
there's also argen and ropotamo :)
I see. It seems river changed a lot since last time I used it. Now I'm intrigued, it adopts the old ways. Maybe I should check it again because I haven't seen a lighter ~~WM~~/compositor for Wayland yet.
How are you liking bspwm? I’ve been eyeing it out too
I used bspwm for years after using i3wm. It was exactly how I wanted things. If you're staying on Xorg, bspwm is great. Nowadays I find Niri more streamlined though.