My Dotfiles - HLWM Polybar Arch

[@ChaiBronz]

Wow, this is how all wm video overviews should be done! Well explained, well demo'd, and no fluff. Awesome work!

[@douglashenri5017]

Very nice! I have been using hlwm for more than a year now, and I discovered today about the virtual monitors. Seriously underrated window manager.

[@MrChickenpoulet]

wa the monitor handling of HLWM is so interesting, I guess for a widescreen like yours it's awesome to have this to setup easily multi monitor with only one physical! thanks for your video!

[@JanLunge]

I'm still surprised that other WM's don't have this feature built in and i just saw a ticket for sway with this feature request that just got closed as its diverging too far from i3 so I guess I'll stay with HLWM forever...

[@veli86]

After years of using FrankenWM i think i just found the WM i''m installing after finishing the last minutes of this video. Excellent showcase of the WM!

[@InterDimensionalOwl]

Very nice set up. Presented well and informative. Your Herstluftwm set up has given me some ideas to replicate. Thanks for sharing.

[@mathiasbraunling368]

Nice video, I like how you go into detail, but not to a level where it gets confusing for someone who is not very familiar with tiling window managers

[@JanLunge]

thanks for the nice comment 👍

[@theof6757]

Thanks for the video! just got an ultrawide and thanks to you, I've now got it set up the way I like.

[@barjo_]

Great video, very professional and informative. Looking forward to more vids :)

[@JanLunge]

thanks very much appreciated

[@1889990]

those virtual monitors are awesome! im running i3 on a 32x9 monitor and I always wanted something like this but i never thought about virtual monitors. I think I have to figure something out with xrandr :) Thanks for the idea!

[@sung461]

Excellent setup

[@torsten.breswald]

herbstluftwm ftw i like your monitor setup

[@rompetroll]

Thank you for sharing this. I used i3 on a 32 widescreen. And the placement of new windows in there was really annoying, nothing was ever in front of me :). My solution was going back to a 27" 1440p which is a good match for my field of view without rotating the head. But I might give this a try - looks like a great WM if it also works on laptops where you change display configurations all the time.

[@obvionaoe]

This video was great, subscribed!

[@hyblm]

Great setup and a great video, I like it a lot. Subscribing for sure. maybe ```rofi -show window``` could work for you. The look of individual rofi scripts is so customizable that you could make it look however you wanted visually.

[@JanLunge]

thanks very much appreciated, actually good point i totally forgot that rofi was this customizable as i just used it as a simple and fast app switcher. i just wrote a simple script that brings a window to the current workspace i'll leave the code here: blog.heaper.de/rofi-bring-window/

[@jacopo1258]

Clean and usefull video, nice.

[@petersoderman92]

Looks absolutely amazing!

[@JanLunge]

thanks a lot

[@JoshuaBlais]

Great video, subbed!

[@peace2941]

Wow, too many new things for me, I felt lost sometimes, if you make a video tutorial on how to configure your setup it would help. Thank you for sharing.

[@joaopauloalbq]

Wow nice video and setup 👊🏻

[@Omikronik]

was manually copying over my dotfiles to git folder each time i changed something... why didnt it ever occur to me to just symlink it... Thanks for the tip!

[@celestialbeing4767]

Don't see to many hlwm videos out here. Wonderful presentation. You look like it was pain staking for you. How's living in it working out for you? Have moved on or changed the way you work?

[@JanLunge]

This setup is the only window manager/ desktop environment that i enjoy working with but i do need to work on mac and windows most of the time currently, still HLWM is my favorite by far

[@Z.DeAllen]

As a beginning career programmer (but long-term OS optimizer), I'm torn between the long-standing dilemma of the "spending weeks of coding just to save seconds of real-time work" functionality. What you've accomplished is beautifully simple, but how much time does it actually save? Is it worth the effort in the long run?

[@JanLunge]

for me it is not really about saving time but more convenience while working. And as Linux is the only OS type where i can actually choose my own preferred way of working I just wanted to put some effort in to it. But in the end it saves me a lot of time and lets me keep my thoughts together better because of less delays especially with all the switching between virtual monitors and windows. For that reason I can't really use virtual desktops on mac and windows they are just way too slow. Also I didn't add all these things at once but slowly over time and incorporate more functions into my workflow, that way I dont loose any real time

[@nichtgestalt]

awesome! I like it very much! Since Termite is not maintained anymore, did you switch your terminal emulator? Keep up the good work, see ya!

[@JanLunge]

thanks, actually no i still use termite i tried alacritty but it relies on a display scaling identifier that is not detected on my display so it crashes if i use it with xorg. from what i have read just because it is no longer maintained doesnt mean it will break it is my terminal of choice still until i alacritty has sane fallbacks for the display scaling

[@obvionaoe]

Hey, what's your wide screen monitor? how big is it? Thanks, and great video!

[@JanLunge]

That is the samsung crg9, a 49inch monitor with 32x9 aspect ratio

[@gatterlinux8426]

I like how u edit the video continue

[@JanLunge]

thanks a lot for the comment, when starting out here these types of comments really help a lot with motivation 👍

[@gatterlinux8426]

@@JanLunge im very old user of herbstluftwm but ehat u did is better keepup man

[@jonasm.6029]

High quality videos, thanks for that! Would you mind sharing the name of your monitor? Using a 2 monitor setup atm and thinking about switching to one larger monitor instead.

[@JanLunge]

Thanks, it's the Samsung crg9 - 5120x1440 with 120hz its amazing for productivity

[@portaltotheweekend_189]

Is it possible to have a separate set of workspaces per monitor? Instead of having one single set of workspaces for all monitors

[@JanLunge]

they have an example script for that here herbstluftwm.org/faq.html#_q_how_can_i_have_a_separate_list_of_tags_per_monitor its not built in but thats why scripting is so nice with it

[@chuckliddell6492]

cool demo even though after expriencing dynamic window tiling I am too lazy to manage windows myself.

[@JanLunge]

herbstluftwm will do a similar auto tiling inside one frame if you dont create any where the switching between layouts works but yeah you can't adjust the sizing of windows in a frame so yeah auto tilers are still more convenient if you dont have any use for the frames to justify managing it manually

[@TheLinuxCast]

I've never used HLWM before. I'll have to give it a try. IDK if I'll be able to tear myself away from DWM or not.

[@JanLunge]

HLWM is definitely worth a try gives a different perspective on the dynamic tiling windowmanagers. I'm a bit limited on what tining wms work with this monitor setup for now i only managed to make it work with HLWM but im currently checking if something simmilar is also possible in awesomewm as i try not to rely on one wm and like to have a backup wm to use just in case. Looking forward to your take on HLWM

[@MrGLum32]

@@JanLunge Interested if you managed to get Awesome to play nice with this monitor setup (I would think yes, as it is rather extensible, but probably a bit more hacky than HLWM in order to get the virtual desktops on the ultrawide). I've spent the past couple of months trying out a bunch of different monitor setups with a laptop, and it was fascinating (and frustrating) to see how much each TWM struggled in different regards. I find myself continually coming back to BSPWM + Polybar, although Awesome was nice and i3 is always an oh-kay fallback espcially with multi-monitors. DWM will always have a special place in my heart, but I don't think I'll ever have a workflow + device that justifies such barebones; at least BSPWM plays nicer when you want to start adding more to your system. All that said, once I settle on a monitor, I may end up using HLWM because those virtual desktops are so clean.

[@JanLunge]

I tested some things with awesomewm but could not get it to work the way i wanted i might try that again but hlwm is already very well configured for my usecase. so i guess my next step should be something that supports wayland but this got kind of difficult with my nvidia gpu and i checked sway and they are not interested in adding any more complex monitor support and it looks like they have the goal of just replicating i3 which is not enough to work for me so i guess time will tell i i ever will be able to find a successor to hlwm

[@eaches]

Like the color scheme you went with. Can we get a link to that wallpaper? Didn't see it in your dotfile repo...

[@JanLunge]

yes i normally manage my wallpapers separately from my dotfiles due to size and copyright things, the original is from martin adams on unsplash unsplash.com/photos/pTCcJSBOTxY and i did a orange tinted version of it which you can grab here mega.nz/file/JJNE3RxQ#hq8Nu0AS0gxRamExpBnZt9c85SyDJKN3BgETbXhGSOo , thanks for the comment i also added this to the dotfile repo

[@eaches]

@@JanLunge I basically applied your color scheme and the Arrongin GTK theme to my Swaywm setup. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@craigdyke6131]

Great presentation and I will definitely be pinching some of those dotfile ideas :) Not sure if i missed it though, but what make and size is your large screen as this is exactly what I am looking to do with my next PC purchase :) ?

[@JanLunge]

Thanks! It's the Samsung crg9 49inch monitor at has a resolution of 5120x1440 at 120hz the curve is less than the one of the new g9 oddyseey and a bit more than the ultrawide from Dell. I think this one is a good blend between productivity and gaming

[@craigdyke6131]

@@JanLunge Just curious why there are multiple set monitor calls in your autostart? I understand the 2 with key bindings, but not the other 2?

[@JanLunge]

@@craigdyke6131 yes I was playing around with the display config a lot that was a duplicate that i missed when switching my side monitor off, I just added a github.com/wlard/dotfiles/blob/master/herbstluftwm/auto-monitor-config.sh auto monitor config so i can manage the aspect ratio from a config json file and it now detects if a monitor is plugged in and adds the workspaces for it automatically its still quite a lot hardcoded but I think at least better than before. I just didn't push my configs in a while I should make that a habit

[@craigdyke6131]

@@JanLunge it looks interesting, but you need to add a few things. Your README.md needs to let people know they now need jq and the file jq reads, monitorsettings.json, is also not included. On a different note, is ALL of the polybar config file required, or have you left items in that are not being used?

[@JanLunge]

@@craigdyke6131 yes did all this in a rush, added it to the readme but the monitorsettings.json is a file that gets written by an xmenu script but its not final yet. I also cleaned up the polybar config there are 2 modules that are not used as they are windowmanager specific for when I switch between i3 and bspwm otherwise I like having a library of code snippets that I can simply activate but this also clutters the config files a lot

[@3nertia]

Sorry if I missed it but what size/brand monitor is your main one?

[@JanLunge]

That is the samsung crg 9 monitor

[@3nertia]

@@JanLunge Thanks!

[@megaoyi1Wins]

Wow!, what video editor do you use?

[@JanLunge]

I'm using davinci resolve. and just switched to the new version 17 there

[@megaoyi1Wins]

@@JanLunge Aweasome!