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[...] I announce that our move off of wlroots is now complete and MR 6608 is now merged.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd recommend river to anyone looking for an alternative wayland dynamic tiling wm.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'm SO excited for river 0.4.0 as it will bring a massive architectural change which will basically allow people to build their own Window Manager on top of River. Currently, River is a Wayland Compositor with an extensible Layout Generator Process support via a custom protocol. This change will essentially make River into a hyper-extensible Window manager building system which will make it immensely powerful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

While I use river as daily driver and am very happy with it, I feel people who like Hyprland will find river to be rather limited and barren in terms of looks and availability of plugins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'd be happy to find an alternative to Hyprland, but it was the first tiling manager that really clicked for me and (before the community issues came to light) I spent quite some time getting it set to the way I like it. I'd love for a competent fork or similar but it is well beyond my skill level to do that.