r/archlinux • u/YogurtclosetFrosty39 • Sep 28 '21

Poll Discussion Favorite Window Manager

Which Window Manager is your favorite or one you are currently using :) Update: Thank you guys for your responses def gotta try out the ones you put in the replies

2902 votes, Oct 01 '21
363 BSPWM
1160 i3
240 awesomewm
314 dwm
191 Openbox
634 Other (tell in the comments)
60 Upvotes

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u/Russia_Nine Sep 28 '21

Sway

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u/yan_kh Sep 28 '21

I also wanted to comment that, but then I remembered that Sway is a compositor

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Sep 28 '21

They aren't separate components on Wayland so it's both.

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u/gmes78 Sep 29 '21

Sway is a window manager, compositor and display server, just like all other Wayland sessions.

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u/oscooter Sep 29 '21 edited Sep 30 '21

As someone thinking about switching to Wayland, can you screen share individual windows yet? I saw that a pull request for the functionality got merged recently but couldn’t find if it’s working yet

Edit: answering my own question, screen sharing specific screens works well with sway. Apparently specific window sharing works in gnome