First Impressions of CWM | The Calm Window Manager

[@root_dnb]

Your videos are inspiring me to push harder and dig deeper on my videos, fantastic, great job!

[@ZaneyOG]

Thank you, means a lot from you man! 😁

[@imantssvarcs91]

CWM also had built in program launcher, ssh launcher and horizontal/ vertical tiling commands.

[@ZaneyOG]

Yeah, thanks for pointing that out. The more I use it, the more nifty it becomes 😅

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

I love this WM. My favorite floating window manager of all time, and I've pretty much nailed my configuration down to use everything it possibly has to offer. EDIT: as of June 25 2022 I've pretty much put all of my keybindings into .cwmrc, rid myself of external daemons and trivial GUI stuff like lxappearance and pcmanfm to try and get better with the terminal. It's been swell. I've had essentially made my workflow as portable as CWM itself.

[@timchase7726]

FWIW, @4:50 cwm has bindings for "window-snap-{left,right,up,down}" to slam a window against the respective edges, and "window-resize-{left,right,up,down}{,-big}" and "window-{,v,h}-maximize" for resizing windows along with a keypress. I find that usually suffices for my needs. There's also a "window-{v,h}tile" to do some auto-tiling (description in `man cwmrc`) if that's your jam.

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

Good video. Nice to see CWM in action. It has to be good when it comes from the good OpenBSD gang. Personally I have completely swallowed the FVWM-pill. I really love it more and more for every year. And it isn´t that hard to modify. And it has to be the most powerful VM in history. Would be fun to see you do a video on it.

[@ZaneyOG]

Thank you, I need to give it a proper look, but cwm just seemed more up my alley based off reading and looking into both. That being said I am sure I will give it a look here soon. Hope you have a good one!

[@n0kodoko143]

I can tell I'm going to enjoy this channel 😊

[@ZaneyOG]

Thank you man, RootBSD will be on the channel here in like 30 for a livestream so make sure your subbed if you wanna see it ;D

[@rmadiedo007]

Thank you for this video, I'm working my way to use openbsd, I just recently learned about cwm

[@ZaneyOG]

Awesome, hope I can put out more helpful videos for you!

[@ChaiBronz]

CWM looks nice. I've been tempted to try a floating wm because it makes sense for a lot of applications. Berry WM has the snap left/right feature but not sure if it can have stacks to keep windows on top of others in fullscreen mode. btw are you still optimising audio on BSD? I always have to crank up my volume for your videos : P

[@ZaneyOG]

Oh no, I edited this too late. Forgot to raise the audio. I will do a re-upload later today

[@ChaiBronz]

@@ZaneyOG it's honestly not so bad you should need to re-upload. i wouldnt worry about it lol

[@IcarianHeights]

Hikari is "insipired" by CWM (wayland only though) and is an awesome project. Should look into it, would make for a good vid imo.

[@ZaneyOG]

I would, but Wayland causes many issues for me when recording and stuff. Also no Wayland on OpenBSD.

[@IcarianHeights]

@@ZaneyOG yeah the dev uses freebsd and it was developed specifically for freebsd but also supports linux.

[@ricardonunes709]

where can we find your dots for cwm? thanks

[@ZaneyOG]

I am so sorry, but I don't think they exist anymore. I didn't create an OpenBSD dotfiles separate from my regular ones.

[@ricardonunes709]

@@ZaneyOG ok, no problem. i've been trying CWM and i really like it. thanks

[@uuu12343]

What did you use to make the ascii art?

[@ZaneyOG]

If your talking about the Pokémon. That's pokemon-colorscripts

[@wernhereksteen4360]

What browser where you using here?

[@globetrotterdk]

Many thanks for the vid. I have started digging into it and really like it on my laptop. Any chance we can get you to post your ~/.cwmrc file?

[@ZaneyOG]

It's in my Gitlab 😉

[@xrguktmfpb]

xterm is indeed a fine terminal emulator.

[@4zv4l38]

Does it support ligature tho ?

[@4zv4l38]

Really nice setup ! How did you record the video and audio from your computer ? And did you use a patch to get the rounded corners ?

[@ZaneyOG]

Thanks! No patch, just picom. I have it in it's own repo, you can find it in my personal projects on Gitlab. I have recording and streaming scripts in my dotfiles in .local/bin Hope the day is treating you well and I am scheduling a stream so if you want to ask any questions come on by. 😎

[@4zv4l38]

@@ZaneyOG well I tried to mess with picom and cwm and I still can't get the round corners, I'm using Linux (I tried both Arch and Alpine, I prefer Alpine but because of musl I don't know if it's the best choice) and I see the picom patch or repo for rounded corners are for bsd so idk if it will work on Linux, any tips ?😂

[@4zv4l38]

maybe I can install Alpine linux with xfce and then replace xfwm with cwm ? That would be much easier than config each things like monitors, sound, etc

[@ZaneyOG]

@@4zv4l38 You just need to set the rounded corners in the config file for picom. Check my .config folder in my gitlab

[@BrenoSilveira94]

CWM it is the best WM ever, the only problem with it is that it only works properly on obsd. I can't use the same config on obsd and on linux T.T.

[@ZaneyOG]

Interesting didn't know that, thank you.

[@0x007A]

I am using cwm and Artix Linux without any issues. My cwm configuration file .cwmrc is similar to Zaney's albeit much shorter but covers all of the various configuration possibilities shown in his setup.

[@BrenoSilveira94]

@@0x007A What version of CWM? Can you send me your config?

[@godnyx117]

What about its source code and development team? Can't you post your issues?

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your hostname is terrifying.... :P

[@ZaneyOG]

Hahaha 😆

[@massakra]

Are you stoned?

[@ZaneyOG]

Not quite sure, maybe. lol. The similarity between me recording stoned and in the middle of night are pretty close 🤣

[@IunahYT]

Why you using this putrid color scheme 🤮

[@ZaneyOG]

🤣 I like it lol