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I discovered this two days ago. It's an alternative shell for tiling managers like hyprland, niri, sway or others. Basically, it makes configuration of those WM really integrated. It's a click and forget approach, which makes configuration really fast. Cherry on the top : it is compatible with every distro out there! I highly suggest to try to pair with niri.

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[โ€“] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

maybe I'm just old fashioned or just simply old but I don't get the new trend of using shells. Isn't the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?

to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It's just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I'm tiling, I'm going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that...why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?

Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don't get it and I feel like it would slow me down.

[โ€“] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 4 days ago

Exactly that. Also, I can define everything exactly the way I want. I have a shortcut for screenshots (that allows me selecting an area and saves it in /tmp and also let's me paste it, so I can use it in whatever way I want). It's the key combo that seemed most intuitive to me.

My config is simple and I understand what it does. I feel like I actually understand my setup, which is nice.

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