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Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by hackeraccount »

wonger_ wrote: post #96
nickjj wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm beginning to really like scrolling window managers. It's optimized for minimal splits (let's say 2-3 windows) per view but it makes it effortless to flip between apps. Floating windows is also an option and making any of them full screen is available too. Imagine tiling a bunch of pieces of paper on your floor and now you want to focus on a few of them at a time. That's basically what a scrolling window manager a…

Happy niri user checking in. Hard to imagine going back to a non-scrolling wm. Niri also has a decent config and builtins like screenshotting too.

I recently switched to niri from sway. I do like it ... There's something nice and spatial about it that makes keeping track of what's where really easy.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by brightball »

nickjj wrote: post #34
siliconc0w wrote: post #8

I might be in the minority but I actually like overlapping windows - often the entire window is not necessary to get the data I am interested in. Right now I'm running tests in another window and I have a sliver of that window visible while the majority of the screen real-estate gets used for the browser in primary window.

I'm beginning to really like scrolling window managers. It's optimized for minimal splits (let's say 2-3 windows) per view but it makes it effortless to flip between apps. Floating windows is also an option and making any of them full screen is available too. Imagine tiling a bunch of pieces of paper on your floor and now you want to focus on a few of them at a time. That's basically what a scrolling window manager a…

Definitely makes logical sense.

I'm not a big fan of "workspaces" but I do love tiling WM with multiple screens.

My desktop at home is Ubuntu + i3 but I keep experimenting on my laptop with different WM. It's currently running Regolith but I'm probably going to try Omarchy 2.0...2.1 maybe? Let it simmer a little.

I saw a scrolling WM video recently and _loved_ what I saw, just too busy to set it up right now. Lots of potential there.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by directmusic »

umbra07 wrote: post #61
directmusic wrote: post #30

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I can absolutely echo your sentiment. I recently released some software which has Wayland support. Immediately, I got some bug reports from Hyprland users so I setup a partition with EndeavourOS + Hyprland to work out the issues. I was pleasantly surprised to find that, as you said, the defaults are nice. Configuring it was a breeze as well. Now about 2 weeks later I am daily driving the system I setup for testing an…

What was the hyprland-specific issue?

They were definitely my fault, to be clear. There was a crash at launch (I don't remember the cause exactly) and being unable to copy to clipboard when using the wlr-layer-shell extension. Those likely affected other compositors, but I did not catch them on Gnome when I was doing the majority of development and testing.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by pythonaut_16 »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #128
rendaw wrote: post #124

I feel like I'm missing some context here. Who is DHH and why is his desktop so desirable? The main page says it's "opinionated" and has two thumbnails of desktops that are mostly just a background image.

DHH is the creator of Ruby On Rails. He is also a rich opinionated high energy asshole (so your average Apple fanboi). Those thumbnails are videos that explain and show the workflow of his desktop.

Seems a bit reductive when the post is literally him pushing Arch Linux and he's also been hyping Framework and talking about his Apple departure for quite a while now.

But also for GP, there's literally an "About DHH" section at the bottom of the pretty short post you're commenting on.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by seaal »

jm4 wrote: post #20
mrinterweb wrote: post #10

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(CMD|CTRL)+TAB is all I usually all I need. I know this may sound wasteful considering that I have two eyes, but I have only ever been able to focus my eyes on a single thing at a time. I usually make the window take up the full window, and I just switch between windows. It is fast to do this. I tried multi-monitors, but it wasn't for me.

I tried Omarchy for a bit. It's a nice setup and DHH made some good choices, but I'm right there with you. Most often, I use maximized windows for the things I'm actively working on and floating windows for something like popping over to a file manager for a quick operation. In Hyprland, this often meant using separate workspaces for the main apps I always have open and workspace switching is more effort than alt+tab…

Using SUPER+F for toggling fullscreen and SUPER+TAB to switch workspaces is basically the same workflow - it's just so much easier to customize Hyprland to be the exact way you want and Omarchy is a wonderful foundation for it. I found it had much better defaults and more intuitive customization than the Hyprland Hyprperks setup https://account.hypr.land/pricing

>Balatro wouldn't launch under Hyprland

Just tried it, worked without issue using Proton-GE https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by seaal »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #88
porridgeraisin wrote: post #25

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This should be possible on X11 using standard extensions. XCompositeRedirectWindow to render your window to a virtual buffer, get pixmap, bind pixmap to new croppedWindow as a GL texture, here apply a crop transform. Then optionally unmap original window. Finally, we have to remap input events. This is trivial browser-style event interception, XSelectInput, change x,y, XSendEvent. I can try to make it work sometime t…

>On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff. I really tried switching over to sway / wayland a couple years back, but there were just so. many. things. which, despite wayland being 'the future' and 'ready for prime time' among proponents just bugged the heck out of me. Why is it an act of congress to setup screen sharing / recording. Like sure it works for this one for…

Thing have come so far in the past couple years that I'm not sure anything you mentioned is even a problem anymore. Global hotkeys work, pulse audio just works, screen sharing just works, redshifting is no issue?

https://wiki.hypr.land/Configuring/Binds/#global-keybinds

https://wiki.hypr.land/Hypr-Ecosystem/hyprsunset/

https://wiki.hypr.land/Useful-Utilities/Screen-Sharing/

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by seaal »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #63
hd4 wrote: post #42

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The reason it's wild is someone has managed to make a tiling WM that isn't just usable and nice, but actually created incredible hype around it, and made people want to give it a chance and switch away from something as entrenched as DEs. It's really a wondrous achievement, something the majority of the Linux community never thought could be done until it was.

Yes, I agree. Although I don't necessarily agree with the hyprland's main dev's responses on many github issues (which sound crude/rude to me) and I think that the community from what I've heard has also become just a little toxic on things like discord but I feel like sometimes we need to seperate the art from the artist and hyprland is picking even more hype so the main's dev's crudeness can be tucked away even mor…

Well he is a 22 year old kid.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by theYipster »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #127
theYipster wrote: post #99

Hyprland is delightful, and the exposure DHH is giving both to it, Arch, and Linux is great. Since Hyprland is composable and customizable by design, building out a functional workspace from scratch is an undertaking. On the other hand, there are number of other pre-configured dot-file "spins" worth trying that produce a nice Hyprland setup. I like Omarchy, but ultimately settled on a Cachyos + Hyprland setup using M…

The thing with ML4W is that by screenshots it looks like any other desktop environment with overlapping mess of differently sized windows. While Omarchy pushes the tiling manager aspect.

It's not. It's 100% tiling by default and functions the same way as Omarchy's spin. However, the developer did make a couple of setting app GUIs that are pop-up focused. I think the screenshots emphasize those, which makes it look less tiling than it is.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by uberduper »

nickjj wrote: post #59
uberduper wrote: post #51

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I'm probably not thinking about your use case the same way you are, but it seems like you could run a nested hyprland session in a 1920x1080 window and screenshare just the nested hyprland window. Run the apps you want to share inside that nested hyprland session. I don't know of any reason that wouldn't work, but I haven't tried it so I'm not certain it would.

I didn't even know that was possible but I think it would be the perfect solution, as long as it ran efficiently and managing the hotkeys between both sessions wasn't a problem. I wonder how that would work if you used the same configs. If it were possible to pull off, that would be the perfect combo: - A dedicated 1920x1080 recording zone, using Hyrpland's config file to automatically resize and position this Hyprla…

I've only used it for testing/debugging so I didn't need any of that capability. I'm not sure why they recommend avoiding exec in the config. Since it would still be under the same user session, dbus things could get wonky. Nested hyprland will automatically create/use ~/.config/hypr/hyprlandd.conf and you'll def want to have unique keybinds. If you haven't gone too crazy with keybinds, just changing the main mod key (I used capslock) in the nested config should take care of most things.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by yndoendo »

teekert wrote: post #94

Somehow, DHH has tapped into an enthusiasm for Linux I haven't felt in a long time. It's so great to see and to experience it with him! When I first discovered Linux it started a journey, from wonder to pragmatism (Mandrake [2004] -> Slackware -> Ubuntu -> Arch -> NixOS [current]). I also spend many nights tweaking and re-tweaking, compiling kernels to get the maximum out of my desktops on rotating cubes with reflect…

(RedHat[Office Max] -> Yellow Dog -> Gentoo -> Arch).

Moved from Gentoo to Arch because I was tired of compiling system updates. Was fun compiling when tweaking the kernel and compiler settings trying to maximize Doom 3 on Linux. Enemy Territory didn't need any tweaking.

I don't mind new or more distros. Helps learn new ways of doing things to make Linux more presentable to others. Tools still needs to be presentable to the masses.

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