Way Cooler tiling window manager

At a high level, this sounds a lot like a Wayland version of Awesome: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomewm.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;awesomewm.org</a><p>Both are tiling window managers that are extensible through Lua, support D-Bus, etc.<p>If you want to check out something conceptually similar, but aren’t ready for Wayland, consider trying Awesome.

I&#x27;ve been using tiling window managers for over 10 years, and for this time has been spent on ratpoison (after brief stints with wmii, awesome and dwm).<p>Despite i3&#x2F;xmonad&#x2F;bspwm&#x2F;etc&#x2F;etc I keep going back to ratpoison for two features I haven&#x27;t found elsewhere:<p>- chained key commands, a la emacs. E.g., I use C-a b to open a bash terminal. I <i>do</i> use non-chained commands, like Mod4+n to go to the next window, but chained key commands can be much easier to do one-handed, and so far it seems ratpoison is the only to offer built in support for this.<p>- manual window arrangement. I don&#x27;t care for the window layouts most tiling WM&#x27;s since dwm&#x2F;xmonad seem to use.<p>Until I see those features in another wm I&#x27;ll probably remain one of the handful of ratpoison users.

Privately using dwm [1] for many years now and never looked back.<p>But having to working under a MS Windows 10 setup now, I was wondering:<p>Is there anything equivalent for MS Windows?<p>===<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dwm.suckless.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;dwm.suckless.org&#x2F;</a>

It&#x27;s going to be a tough battle if they want to win my heart away from i3.

Surprising there&#x27;s no comment on XMonad yet. Well, it needs a replacement as soon as Wayland is going to become established.

I was a little disappointed to find out it&#x27;s based on the C WLC library rather than being a full Rust implementation.

My faovurite window manager ever is GOOMWWM, which is a manual[1] tiling window manager with some stacking window manager features, is extremely keyboard centric, lightweight, customisable and easy to use. Its also tiny, so if you want to hack the source, its not that dificult to figure out.<p>Its sadly not actively developed (the latest github commit was 2 years ago), but in my experience, its been very stable and I’ve used it for years without any issues (although I stopped using it almost 2 years ago when I started using a mac for work).<p>I haven’t tried way cooler, but if it were to let me work like I did in goomwwm (especially manual tiling), I’d be sold. Dbus as the integration mechanism sounds interesting and I like rust and lua too.<p>[1] I never liked automatic tiling personally

Does anybody know what&#x27;s the _current_ status of window decorations in wayland? Client-side decorations was an incredibly poor choice in the original design. From the screenshot I cannot tell if it&#x27;s just a custom theme or the &quot;wm&quot; is drawing them.

This goes on my &quot;need to check out&quot; list. I&#x27;ve been toying with the idea of switching to a tiling window manager for a long time, but I&#x27;ve held it off over not wanting to switch window managers yet again when making the move to Wayland.

I spend most of my time working in OS X and I use Hammerspoon. It is really an awesome tool. It allowed me to establish truly keyboard-centric workflow. Not just for managing windows, a lot more. I also have Linux machine at home, I don&#x27;t use it a lot yet I&#x27;ve been thinking about developing better way to work in Linux - something that lets me keep my hands in &quot;the home row&quot;. Can someone recommend a tool similar to Hammerspoon?

God knows how to install on Fedora, install script didn&#x27;t work for me on my test box (installs but doesn&#x27;t appear on list of WMs in login screen)

&gt; configurable using Lua,<p>Oh, brings back memories from when I used to have Sawfish installed.

<p><pre><code> Way Cooler is designed from the ground up to be secure. Rust prevents Way Cooler from ever having a data race, dangling pointers, or a segfault. Large classes of security vulnerabilities, such as from buffer overruns or use after free, are a thing of the past. </code></pre> haha nice selling point. Could add this to any app built with a memory managed language. =P