[heresie-dabord]

> This was the one to finally stop getting me to distro hop.

For me it was Debian 12 with Sway (Wayland) followed by Debian 13 with labwc and Sway.

Now I can switch from a tiling window manager (WM) to a floating WM depending on the work task.

[WD-42]

I had not heard of labwc before, super cool that it's compatible with openbox themes! Openbox was one of the first "cool wm" I think I used back in the day, probably like 15 years ago now when it supplanted Fluxbox as the dominant *box.

[tetris11]

> labwc and Sway

Is there an option to stay permanently in floating mode, and allow manual placement? I'm stuck on AwesomeWM using just floating windows with easy keybindings for moving them around/resizing, etc. and am looking to jump from X11 to Wayland

[klooney]

Why use Awesome with floating windows?

[KetoManx64]

Because it makes no sense to do tiling on a 12" screen, especially when you have keyboard shortcuts to activate/start applications

[michaelmrose]

I prefer it still because it makes sense for every window to be maximized at startup. Also one layout that still makes sense is 1 window taking up 100% of the horizontal space and 95% of the vertical save for a small strip for a terminal.

[KetoManx64]

I have - Meta + Z: Activate/iterate through terminal windows - Meta + W: Activate/iterate through browser windows

And when on a laptop I maybe do a split view 2-3 times a day for a short term. 95% of the time it's full sized windows which I switch between using keyboard shortcuts.

[tetris11]

Same, same, and same.

I also just like the predictability of placing a window in a location and then the next time it spawns in the exact same place I last left it

[exe34]

nixos for me. broke it once 9 years ago, but I never figured out how.