I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring for Xmonad, but I personally love auto-tiling, CLI apps, and hate desktop icons so it's a bit more retro-minimalist than pure retro.
I would use stumpwm because I prefer lisp over haskell for config but it doesn't support auto-tiling yet q.q
@johnabs@qoto.org @stdevel@chaos.social auto tiling has been supported for a long while, I have half of my groups use it
https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/pull/851
@iska @stdevel Hmmm. I may need to check this out again!
I've made the transition from i3 to dwm to xmonad, but if this can get me to a dwm/i3 experience with as much stability as (or preferably more than) xmonad, I'll probably switch.
Re-building xmonad on guix is a nightmare, especially when someone changes an abstraction and I have to completely rewrite my config 😭
Does it handle multiple monitors well, and switching between monitors? And can you have multiple workspaces per monitor? Do you recommend anything from stumpwm-contrib?
@johnabs@qoto.org
@stdevel@chaos.social I don't have multiple monitors, but my setup does use a bunch of contrib packages: kbd-layouts, gaps, notify, mem, desktop-entry and ttf-fonts
for desktop entry and gaps I had to make my own patches for them to work
and ttf can slowdown when there's lots of text (i.e exec), so not a good idea for a laptop