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[ MaomaoWM ] Wayland compositor
(lemmy.world)
I've switched from RiverWM to MaomaoWM and I'm loving it. I still get tags rather than workspaces and per output tags. I can have custom animations just like Hyprland and an IPC client like on Sway.
Bar - Waybar Terminal - Foot File manager - lf Editor - Neovim Browser - Firefox
Dot files but be warned they are a WIP and change often.
Huh, I've never heard of MaomaoWM before. I'm happy to see the space of tiling Wayland compositors continue to be populated.
Would you say the main differences with River is the animations?
MaoMao is a weird one. Think of every WM available for Wayland. literally all of them. Ok so you've thought of them all? thought of the best parts? cool that's MaoMao. It has, quite literally, EVERYTHING.
it has the tag system of River, it has the styling and animations of Hyprland, it has the tiling and smart gaps/smart features, scrathpad of sway, it has a scroller like Niri that can be turned on or off, it has a vim navigation style to the point you can navigate all your windows/tags using vim like nav. you can alt+tab to grid view everything...it's just...it's a lot not going to lie. the config CAN be massive. it has SO much as far as keybinds go you'll not only be using mod/super but also alt on it's own or ctrl on it's own. think of it like 3 mod/supers.
So it does all that but the scary thing is, it's stable. very stable. more than hyprland (which I don't know if that's saying much)
it's a very, very, very good WM that with a bit more love and care I can see it surpassing hypland in popularity. It's just VERY overwhelming and there's a lot to it. But if you really get into it and make it your own you'll have zero reason to ever switch WMs again because in all honesty...you're quite literally using them all at the same time with maomao.
MaomaoWM has animations and has more layouts than River. It even has a scrolling layout like Niri.
That's pretty cool. I'll have to check it out.