I had a fun fling with EXWM, but having your window manager sharing its single-thread with emacs just doesn't really make any sense.
aradox66 1 days ago [-]
If it seems interesting to you or you're experimenting with keyboard-driven tiling WMs, though, I would highly recommend this particular fling.
dargscisyhp 1 days ago [-]
Been using it for a couple of years, and in practice it does not cause me much trouble, at least not for me.
Dibby053 4 hours ago [-]
Can you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.
quotemstr 1 days ago [-]
Single-threaded? Not anymore!
bitwize 1 days ago [-]
The commonly accepted solution, if this is an issue for you, is to run two instances of Emacs: one to edit in, and one to run EXWM. The days of "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" are well behind us; one can easily afford to run two (or many more) emacsen. And it can't be that much more bloated than, say, kwin...
Combine that with the built-in ssh client, that might be good enough for you.
Personally, I have to run Windows at work but I'm allowed a local linux VM, so I run that headless, ssh into it, and run tmux for pane/window support.
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SuperNinKenDo 1 days ago [-]
Really enjoyed my time using EXWM. Had to move to Wayland for a number of reasons, and really miss it. KDE Plasma has been fantastic, but I do miss the integrated scripting environment. Ironically I now use a heavily frames-based Emacs set up, and eschew most of Emacs internal window management capabilities.
Pfft, I'll be impressed when Emacs runs as pid 1, has an inittab.el, mounts filesystems, sets up swap, starts daemons, launches X, reaps zombines, and deals with shutdown. I'm sort of surprised nobody's done that yet.
I hesitated to post here (because it seems like I have been flagged as only posting on troll topics), but decided to anyway because I don't want anyone else to know about this overpowered setup!
Alive-in-2025 1 days ago [-]
What does this mean, especially in reference to this story
djaouen 1 days ago [-]
Basically, whenever I post to a thread, that thread gets buried by HN's algorithm. Thus, the intention of me posting means that I can keep Guix and EXWM under wraps and all to myself. Edit: Forgot to add: MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Edit 2: Pikachu uses GROWL. It's ULTRA EFFECTIVE!
hsbauauvhabzb 20 hours ago [-]
I’m going to guess that a lot of your posts are of similarly low quality.
djaouen 19 hours ago [-]
Yes, because clicking on a username and then "comments" is clearly too much work for you. *rolls eyes*
Edit: Sorry for the prior wording choice, I am not yet fluent in Total Asshole.
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This is to reduce lateral wrist movement (to protect from Carpal Tunnel) and general finger movement. Just posting here if folks wanna check it out.
It's currently for ISO keyboards (I have ISO), but you can modify it for ANSI!
I will need to give it another go and glad to see it back among the living :)
Combine that with the built-in ssh client, that might be good enough for you. Personally, I have to run Windows at work but I'm allowed a local linux VM, so I run that headless, ssh into it, and run tmux for pane/window support.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xB2fFk1tQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfKrrTtyOk
Fwiw I use EXWM in Guix and only interact with the computer through emacs (though I do need to use terminal and eshell).
Please, don't give Poettering ideas. He has enough, already. /s
Edit 2: Pikachu uses GROWL. It's ULTRA EFFECTIVE!
Edit: Sorry for the prior wording choice, I am not yet fluent in Total Asshole.