Xmonad seeking help for Wayland port (2023)

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87 points clircle | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 00:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | source

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phs2501 ◴[20 Sep 25 05:43 UTC] No.45310736[source]▶

Does anyone know of a Wayland WM/compositor that does multi-screen like XMonad? Preferably out of the box but I'll take configurable.

For those unaware, though I doubt you're reading this thread if so, I want n desktops that are shared between all screens, not desktops _assigned_ to particular screens. If I summon a desktop on screen 1 and it's currently displayed on screen 2, they should swap.

Ideally also does layouts kind of like xmonad too, not "here's a tiling tree structure and a bunch of commands to manually manage it".

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1. rlpb ◴[20 Sep 25 10:19 UTC] No.45312018[source]▶

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Sway can more or less do it, and I've switched from XMonad to Sway but configured similar to XMonad's default method of operation.

I haven't managed to get it quite right though. For example Sway doesn't seem to be willing to move a workspace to a different monitor if it is empty.

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2. thraxil ◴[20 Sep 25 12:52 UTC] No.45312966[source]▶

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Yeah, I switched from XMonad (which I used for over a decade) to Sway a few years back. Spent some time trying to duplicate the XMonad behaviour but eventually just realized that spending a few hours getting used to the Sway approach and slightly changing my workflow was a lot easier.

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