I use dwm in my laptop, but previously used i3wm for a few years. I’m curious about:

  • How well EXWM performs nowadays?
  • Is it resource heavy compared to other tiling window managers?
  • Is it still an issue EXWM not being multi-threaded?

My daily tasks involves just opening chrome, telegram and/or slack, watching movies and coding of course. Would it be a good fit for my needs?

I’d love to know your thoughts if you use or have some previous experience with EXWM. Thank you in advance!

  • unix_hacker@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used EXWM for years and it was great. No real performance issues, and rarely did its single threaded nature cause a problem.

    But I ended up switching to StumpWM because I prefer running a single Emacs instance that I can restart without restarting my whole window manager. And StumpWM can still be controlled in Emacs via SLY.

    But it’s not nearly as intuitive as Emacs, as it acts more like tmux than an extension of Emacs window management.