I discovered this two days ago. It’s an alternative shell for tiling managers like hyprland, niri, sway or others. Basically, it makes configuration of those WM really integrated. It’s a click and forget approach, which makes configuration really fast. Cherry on the top : it is compatible with every distro out there! I highly suggest to try to pair with niri.
Pretty cool. I tried it out in a VM. I tried setting the hypland layout to master and orientation to center or right, but for some reason the orientation field isn’t being updated. new_status and mfact update fine. If I can figure it out, I’ll probably switch.
Links are nice.
Oops. It was my first post here, I thought I had pasted it as well. Thank you!
maybe I’m just old fashioned or just simply old but I don’t get the new trend of using shells. Isn’t the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?
to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It’s just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I’m tiling, I’m going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that…why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?
Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don’t get it and I feel like it would slow me down.
Learning about dankmaterialshell today helped me, because I was thinking about switching from sway to mangowc, and I didn’t feel like spending lots of time configuring everything for a wm I’m at this point not sure about I will keep using.
I’ll still have to configure mango by hand, especially the keybinds (the default uses super, alt and crtl all over the place, clashing with my nvim setup in multiple ways). But if I decide I want to keep using mango, I can still replace some or all aspects of DMS. But for now it provided me with a starting point and I can take my time configuring and replacing things when I need to
I have mixed feelings about this! Yes, customization is part of the fun, but you need time for this. I think it’s easier to be able to quickly have a working desktop with a shell like this. Plus, it’s light and maintained, and you can tune it the way you like. Customizing is fun, but there’s no need to reinvent the wheel!
Exactly that. Also, I can define everything exactly the way I want. I have a shortcut for screenshots (that allows me selecting an area and saves it in /tmp and also let’s me paste it, so I can use it in whatever way I want). It’s the key combo that seemed most intuitive to me.
My config is simple and I understand what it does. I feel like I actually understand my setup, which is nice.
Why do people have transparent terminals? This would just distract me so hard.
Exactly the first thing I disable as well!
