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Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by darthrupert »

frzen wrote: post #73
darthrupert wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdote: my gaming laptop from 2022 doesn't work on Windows 10/11. It keeps hard crashing when stressed. On Linux, it's totally stable on identical workloads. Personally, I don't see reason anymore for the existence of Windows. For a long time it held its ground as a gaming OS, but Steam/Proton has taken that final advantage from it.

Is it an Alienware? From experience they have an unstable overclock from the factory which is applied by software not in the bios. I was pulling my hair out trying to diagnose crashes on a laptop for someone else. A bonus is if you install docker or WSL, the alienware control software could no longer turn off the overclock. So that whole time I thought there was no way it was overclocked because the option to overclo…

>Is it an Alienware?

Asus Zephyr G14 with AMD insides. Could be that they are indeed overclocking it for some reason. I didn't seem to get it to be 100% stable even with removing some boosts et al.

But that doesn't matter. On Linux I don't have to tweak anything, it just works. Which is amusing.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by bsnnkv »

alpb wrote: post #67

Somewhat related: If you like hotkey-driven window tiling and positioning tools like macOS Spectre/Rectangle apps, I wrote https://github.com/ahmetb/RectangleWin for Windows a while back and mostly have been personally using it to position windows to 1/2, 1/3, or 2/3 of edges/corners of the display.

I am also a Platform engineer by day and a very heavy user of kubectx, thank you for this excellent tool that has immeasurably improved my k8s workflow!

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by bogle »

If anyone has a good komorebi.ahk that sets up a sensible bunch of defaults then they should try to enhance the komorebi.sample.ahk that's in the repo. I found it had very few keys set up and some of the gists I found had errors in. This adds quite a bit of friction to starting with what looks like a pretty good workaround for the poor windows management in W10.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by bsnnkv »

comfypotato wrote: post #79
bsnnkv wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, one of the biggest motivations in writing komorebi was that I wanted to separate the window management from the key binding and shortcuts using a message-passing architecture similar to bspwm and yabai. By exposing all of the functionality (aka socket messages) via a cli (komorebic), I can use whatever I want to handle my shortcuts, which in turn makes it easy to configure my shortcuts to whatever I want. An…

Read this whole page looking for this thought exactly, and it’s convinced me to try it. Can you give some insight in how maintained komorebi will be? I know you can’t predict the future, I’m just curious to what extent you prioritize it.

For the most part I consider komorebi to be pretty feature-complete as a tiling window manager.

That being said, I use it extensively every day myself so I'm constantly fixing any bugs that I come across myself in daily use, and similarly I'm always playing with new ideas and coming up with features that I have not seen present in other twms.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by mdpm »

sonovice wrote: post #9

Just to add one more to the conversation: I have found "FancyWM" to be a real productivity booster. For some reason it is pretty unknown, though.

Seconding this. It's seemingly unknown, but the most useable of those I've tried

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by naikrovek »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #62
cookiengineer wrote: post #51

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What's pretty surrealistic in this discussion is that MacOS in comparison cannot even run on all that hardware. And Windows won't either because driver support ended a long time ago when you use old hardware. Of course Linux sucks, but it only does so because it has the issue of trying to run anywhere with no default settings enforced, because those would fail anyways.

> And Windows won't either because driver support ended a long time ago when you use old hardware. Or new hardware. I have an EliteBook 845 G8 (Zen 3) from December 2021. Windows doesn't recognize its webcam. Some issue with some USB chip along the way. No, HP's provided drivers don't help. Yes, HP recommends Windows 11. I have its cousin, an EliteBook 840 G8 (Intel 11th gen), same vintage. Windows doesn't recognize…

If the hardware vendor won't submit the driver to Microsoft for driver validation, which is a requirement to for the driver to be available via Windows Update, that's not Microsoft's fault.

HP likely chose to have a semi-custom part in those models and included the driver in the shipped build of Windows. They also likely make the driver available for download somewhere (though this "somewhere" is not always easy to find.)

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by vladvasiliu »

naikrovek wrote: post #88
vladvasiliu wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And Windows won't either because driver support ended a long time ago when you use old hardware. Or new hardware. I have an EliteBook 845 G8 (Zen 3) from December 2021. Windows doesn't recognize its webcam. Some issue with some USB chip along the way. No, HP's provided drivers don't help. Yes, HP recommends Windows 11. I have its cousin, an EliteBook 840 G8 (Intel 11th gen), same vintage. Windows doesn't recognize…

If the hardware vendor won't submit the driver to Microsoft for driver validation, which is a requirement to for the driver to be available via Windows Update, that's not Microsoft's fault. HP likely chose to have a semi-custom part in those models and included the driver in the shipped build of Windows. They also likely make the driver available for download somewhere (though this "somewhere" is not always easy to f…

> HP likely chose to have a semi-custom part in those models and included the driver in the shipped build of Windows. They also likely make the driver available for download somewhere (though this "somewhere" is not always easy to find.)

Well, there's a big page with drivers available for download for this specific model on HP's website. They also offer a tool to check for missing / outdated drivers, similar to Intel's. According to both, everything is installed and up to date, but the USB part isn't working (has an exclamation mark in device manager).

I think the pre-installed Windows 10 did support the webcam, but then it had issues with the display backlight being extremely dim.

Anyway, in practice, this is only mildly annoying. I don't use Windows all that often, and the webcam even less.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by LMMojo »

orev wrote: post #12
extr wrote: post #4

Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button…

In Windows 10 and 11, after you create another virtual desktop, you can easily move between them with built-in Win+Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow. It may not be as perfectly tuned as many would like, but it works well enough.

Yes, that's right, but you can't quickly jump between windows 3 & 7 by doing something simple like Win+Shift+7 / Win+Shift+3
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