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Looking for floating window managers (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by wololo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/wayland@lemmy.ml

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Hey guys, I've been using tiling wms for a long time and today I decided to try floating wms. Do you guys know any Wayland floating wm?

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[–] Communist@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots?tab=readme-ov-file#compositors

[–] hackerwacker@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

In i3 at least (and so probably sway), you can set all windows to be floating by default.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

labwc is the most mature floating/stacking compositor I know of. It's roughly designed after Openbox and is configuration-compatible to a certain degree but missing features of it (icons, pipemenus, some window rules etc.).

I recently migrated my main PC to Wayland and there I use Hyprland in "floating mode" (I just set up a windowrulev2 to set all clients to float on the first few workspaces). I'm not happy with it, because Hyprland (of course) lacks everything you expect from a stacking compositor.