 Over the last year DWM has been my daily driver for a tiling window manager and I love DWM There aren't many things that I dislike about it But the point is DWM is great and I've spent the last year maybe even two years Living in it and being perfectly happy But my inability to have attention on a single thing and not change things around and switch things and try new things and Go back to old things and all this stuff is a real problem for me I like to do I like to switch things up. It's just the nature of my personality I suppose so I'm changing window managers now I've made this video before the last time was with BSPWM and I lived there for over a month and I like BSPWM I had a lot of good things to say about it I also had some negative things to say about it But eventually after that video I moved back to DWM and I've also lived for a whole month in plasma I recently made a video on that experience and it turns out that I'm not a floating window manager slash desktop environment guy anymore I just can't get my head around organizing my windows in that way anymore It just it seems to be beyond me. So I'm switching window managers I think I already said that but I am switching window managers and the window manager that I've chosen to go to is Old faithful I'm going back to i3 now i3 was my first window manager with my first tiling window manager and I had a many I have many many good memories of i3 So I've decided to go back to i3 and this is what my setup looks like so far and I have to say it's a Don't worry about the rice. I the rice is kind of a mixture of one dark and cat pussine or whatever hell You can't call it so I'm still working on that But the point is is that I've switched i3 now the reason why let's just talk about the reason why beyond the fact that I have the the whole ADD when it comes to everything I Can't be happy with that what I have I have to make changes. That's just the way things work But beyond that there are a few things that we're lacking in DWM that I'm looking for in a new window manager and Surprisingly enough or unsurprisingly enough if you follow the channel for any amount of time You'll know that the thing that I like most about time when managers is the fact that they have workspaces up the wahoo and You can do a lot of configuration with workspaces the thing about DWM is that it's kind of curtailed at 18 now I never really got upset with the fact that there were only 18 18 is about right Usually I have 20 but they're close enough the number really wasn't the point more It was my ability to Interact with those workspaces through key bindings So there are patches and stuff that you can go through and use in order in DWM in order to Make sure that each workspace has a key binding associated with it. I've never been able to get that patch to work I don't know if it's the patch or if I'm just doing something stupid either one of those things is Possible, but the point is is that in order to change workspaces You have to have that monitor and focus and then you can go through and use the appropriate key bindings in order to Switch workspaces and that has always bothered me It's just really does bother me that I have to do this to stepping in order to get to a workspace on a monitor That's not in focus. So with I3 because I can go through and basically create whatever key bindings I want whether that's an sx hkd or an i3 config file itself I can go through and assign key bindings to how many ever workspaces I have I can and I can have as many workspaces as I Want I'll probably just stick to 15 or 20. That's a reasonable number But being able to assign key bindings to each and every one of those means that it doesn't matter Where that workspaces on which monitors on all I need to know is what key binding that is and I can go there That's cool The other thing that I wanted to do when switching to I win managers was find a winner manager that didn't have it's a built-in bar And while I3 does have its own bar It's dead simple to disable all you have to do is Comment out a few lines and is configuration follower delete them and it goes away You then you can use whatever bar you want and I want to use poly bar. I like poly bar I can go through and configure poly bar pretty much however I want it to and that's not the case with the DWM bar Like there's a ton of patches you can go through and do and and get things colored and adding scripts It's fine, but the stock DWM bar is Limited in the amount of customization you can do without just adding a ton of patches and most of those patches conflict with each other It's a real pain in the ass. I did try the any bar patch for DWM Which allows you to use other patches and getting poly bar to work in DWM is Pain in the rear end. It is so painful now. It is possible It's not it's not as if it's it's so difficult that you can't do it It's just there's so many steps you have to go through to do then there's so many things that you have to have in Perfect working order in order for it to work. It's kind of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle It's it's very much if you don't do it and you're missing a piece It won't work not a big deal if you follow the directions and get through it But it was just a pain in the butt and then at their end result There were still some things in poly bar that just didn't work well with DWM It just even if you have the DWM poly bar fork enable or installed It doesn't work the way poly bar works in other window managers It's close, but it's not quite there and it just felt lacking to me. So I Decided I was gonna search out for another window manager and I settled on I3 I think some of the reason why I settled on I3 is simply familiarity. I like the configuration file I know pretty much everything there is about it. I like the documentation of I3 I think it's probably the best documentation of any window manager out there So if there's a situation where I come into where where I don't know what I'm doing I can always go look that up like for example, I've never set up a scratch pad and I3 Have no clue how it's done when I used I3 previously as a daily driver I didn't know what a scratch pad was, you know, it wasn't until I got into DWM where I started using scratch pads So that's gonna be an adventure. It's something that I'm kind of looking forward to so Yeah, I've switched I3 now the question is always how long will I be here to answer that question? Isn't that I'm sure something else. Oh something shiny. You know what I mean? Eventually I will get distracted. I know that Tyler and I are going to be doing something called rice wars here pretty soon And we've chosen Spectre WM as our window manager to rice. So if that turns out to be awesome I may end up switching to that. Who knows? I also know that Left WM has gone through and just done a ton of work since the last time I tried it So I also want to give that a try So if you haven't subscribed already make sure you subscribe for those videos because those should be really fun I want to do more window manager stuff on the channel I'm a big Windows manager guy and I've kind of gotten away from over the last six months or so and done more Ricing videos and while I enjoy like I enjoy those time lapse racing videos way more than anybody else does Mostly because they're dead simple to make like I don't have to talk through those things and it's fantastic It's like making a video without having to do any work I was gonna rice anyways. I record it and then just increase the speed by 500% and I have a video It's awesome, but they're not popular. I understand this. So I'm gonna go through and do more window manager first looks Customization tutorials and stuff like that. 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