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Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager

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116 points tosh | 1 comments | 13 Apr 25 17:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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aradox66 ◴[13 Apr 25 20:48 UTC] No.43675743[source]▶
I had a fun fling with EXWM, but having your window manager sharing its single-thread with emacs just doesn't really make any sense.
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1. bitwize ◴[13 Apr 25 21:13 UTC] No.43675907[source]▶
The commonly accepted solution, if this is an issue for you, is to run two instances of Emacs: one to edit in, and one to run EXWM. The days of "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" are well behind us; one can easily afford to run two (or many more) emacsen. And it can't be that much more bloated than, say, kwin...