Have you tried Niri? It scrolls!
Haven't tried it myself, but I've heard good things.
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Recently switched from sway to niri on my laptop and loving it so far. The tiling+scrolling behavior feels very natural to me.
Thanks! I'll take a look
yeah +1 for Niri. I love it. in most cases I don't even bother with workspaces anymore because of Niri, makes things easier and the vim nav is perfect. great documentation, it's fast, and very easy to configure.
I do recommend sway if you don't find an alternative, it works really well. But yeah, no auto-tiling by default.
Can I ask why are you against Hyprland ?
EDIT: The arch wiki has a list
Thought it was common knowledge at this point...
Creator of hyperland:
[A trans person] joined the Discord server and made a big deal out of their pronouns [..] because they put their pronouns in their nickname and made a big deal out of them because people were referring to them as “he” [misgendering them], which, on the Internet, let’s be real, is the default. And so, one of the moderators changed the pronouns in their nickname to “who/cares”. […] Let’s be real, this isn’t like, calling someone the N-word or something.
a screenshot from their discord:
I use Sway and can really recommend it.
Try mangowc. Pretty new but promising. Also has scrolling if you're into that.
Not a tiling window manager, but would Cosmic possibly serve your usecase?
it can do tiling ig
Why not sway?
window manager that is wayland based
The term you want is "compositor" rather than "window manager". Under Wayland, the relatively-modest role of the X11 window manager has been replaced by the larger compositor, which does a superset of what window managers did.
I don’t really want to install a plugin to make it autotile
I don't know what "autotiling" is. Looking online, I see various people using the term for different things. A script for sway uses this term and states that it automatically-selects between horizontal or vertical splitting orientation based on the currently-focused window dimensions. Is this the functionality that you're asking for?
I have this moon here if you'd like it?