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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by mccd to c/[email protected]
 

A minimal desktop setup.

Info:

  • Programs: Emacs, Devdocs, pfetch, imv
  • WM: Hikari
  • OS: Void linux
  • Art by: Escher
  • Dotfiles

Recently switched from Guix to Void, mostly because it's much simpler and I felt that my desktop didn't need the complexity of Guix.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“my desktop didn’t need the complexity of Guix”

so … Alpine next?

[–] mccd 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe, not sure how musl compares to glibc. I quite like Runit and xbps though so I don't feel like I'm in a rush.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

10/10 distro and 10/10 setup. FWMs ftw

[–] mccd 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I think Hikari combines the best of both. In the rare cases I need to tile, it has that capability but in most cases I have 1-2 windows and find it easier to work with them when the windows are smaller.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would use it but on my hardware its buggy and unmaintained.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm how hard is it to configure and add window decorations? I might take a look at it if I can use it without key bindings

[–] mccd 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Configuration is straight forward with a file but you won't be able to use it without keybindings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Then it's not for me. Thanks for the answer though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

is hikari good as a floating wm?

[–] mccd 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it's very underrated. It has some features I really appreciate:

  • Tiling features when needed, W+l s tiles everything when I need it.
  • Great shortcuts, like go to next busy desktop, maximize height of window
  • Holding win reveals the title of the window.
  • Cursor follows active window

It matches my workflow very well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does it work well for you? I used cwm on X11 (fairly similar to Hikari), but last time I tried Hikari on Void I kept running into weird issues.

[–] mccd 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'd say so.

The only issues I've had is that pinch-to-zoom and fractional scaling does not work (but easily solvable).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It looks like hikari developement has stalled a bit, are you using a fork or something like that? Great setup btw:)

[–] mccd 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks! Hmm, could be that it has stalled, though it's working great for me so I don't really know if it's a problem. I'm using the main repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

What desktop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I absolutely love how minimalist this looks....