Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

I’ve played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

  • iloverocks@feddit.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    I use hyprland and kitty on my modern desktop and my 12 year old i3 laptop.

    If you want to have a really minimal Wayland compositor take a look at dwl

  • Drito@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    1 year ago

    Vivarium

    Please don’t blame the lack of popularity, Vivarium works and its feature complete. The dev answers to the recent github issues.

    i3-like WMs are underfeatured and Hyprland is less minimal than Vivarium.

  • PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    Most of my machines are KDE on X, but I have one where I’ve been feeling stuff out in Wayland-land. The most appealing thing I’ve tried has been Hyprland with Waybar. It’s a little bit of a kit in traditional WM fashion, but easy to configure from straightforward config files, fairly light, and not “Just like this X WM, but broken because of missing Wayland functionality” (I know, I know, it’s not technically Wayland deficiencies, its “not yet complete extensions”, because it’s all extensions, the Wayland protocol itself does almost nothing).

    I’ve been using Kitty for a terminal emulator and it’s pleasing as well.

    I haven’t found a launcher I love, I have fuzzel right now and the only major issue is it doesn’t currently support mouse interaction, and I prefer a “use whichever input device your hand is on at the time” to keyboard-only.

      • PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        1 year ago

        They’re both simple text formats, but Hyprland uses a “key = value” type config with section labels. Sway is largely compatible with i3 config files which are more like an unstructured script.

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like sways configuration file more because the naming on hyprland isn’t stellar. But hyprland has a config for anything I’d ever need which is awesome.

    • png@artemis.camp
      1·
      1 year ago

      Have personally been using KDE Wayland on EndeavourOS for a while, and It’s been free of major bugs save for some games going to a black screen after tabbing out of them.

  • atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml
    101·
    1 year ago

    stacking wm -> wayfire

    tiling wm -> sway [corrected, i don’t know what was going through my mind]

    terminal emulator -> alacritty or foot

    • Retiring@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Sway is a tiling wm and wayfire looks like a floating wm to me. I don’t know what a „stacking“ wm is, but afaik you can stack in sway.

  • cow@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use sway wm with the foot terminal emulator. If you do not like manual tiling I have heard good things about river wm.

  • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    I like puppy linux as a distro for old laptop refurb, starts lean and mean, allowing older laptops to recapture some of their former glory.

    • SnailMagnitude@mander.xyzOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Void is my plan. I went with Fedora last time as I couldn’t be bothered setting up Void properly and Fedora was the only distro with a generic kernel that seemed old mac trackapd/keyboard friendly at time. I’ve not tried Puppy for a long time, I tend to opt for AntiX or Porteus in that kinda area.

  • Iamnotyourbroom@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Labwc is really a decent window manager that can pretty much be used on its own without a panel (I think). I think foot is pretty fast, but I just use gnome console, because I’m a savage.