Sway's ibus support is not great and most things that rely on the tray don't work. I'm eagerly waiting to switch but half my workflow doesn't work with it
Thanks to my Nvidia GPU I just stick with Gnome on Xorg, so I haven't reached Wayland enlightenment yet, either.
I honestly love i3. It doesn't do everything but it lets me spam workspaces to my hearts content. I have awful short term memory so its great when I need to go back and forth repeatedly to look at a reference.
Fucking yes. I also have Compton (picom) installed and just switching between workspaces is so addictive. Besides, it's just really efficient for the kind of stuff I do on my laptop, and the keybindings are a blessing.
I have compton just for transparent terminals. Probably not a wise use of resources but w/e. I love the ease in adding key bindings through the i3config and not needing to learn an additional programming language to modify it slightly. I have a friend who runs awesomewm and he's like "oh yeah just write lua scripts to move the time over here". I dont have the time for that, basic i3status is plenty fine for me.
I don't like transparency much but I noticed a little tearing and lagging on Firefox if I have vlc running on bare openbox and i3. Goes away when I have Compton so I use Compton.
Also yeah, i3 probably has the easiest config of them all. Openbox is easy too but XML is a bit of an eyesore. I like both of them, and openbox is even lighter but I really need my tiling.
i3 is a great wm for getting started with tiling. Recently I switched to herbstluftwm on my laptop and I prefer its tiling over i3.
I've heard of that one. Will check it out if I'm dissatisfied with i3 later for sure. I'm not inclined to use xmonad or DWM tbh, but I've used awesome, openbox, and qtile before and they're all fine.
herbstluft is dope. I used it for quite a while and honestly still miss it sometimes. Is it still kind of a pain to use floating windows or has that gotten any easier?
