Rubywm: An X11 window manager in pure Ruby
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·January 31, 2025nucleogenesis
This looks rad - I’m getting grumpy at i3 so I’d love to replace it.
Have you used it with multiple monitors by chance?
Thanks for sharing!
vidarh
I'm the author, and beware that it's still very much "raw". It's extremely minimalist, and I've not even tried to make it feature-complete, that includes not even testing on multiple monitors.
It is the wm I use daily, but I also know where to look if it crashes or otherwise misbehaves.
It definitely has bugs - there's something Chrome does when the file open dialog window opens that makes it sometimes fail to refresh unless I resize it that I haven't bothered tracking down, for example.
somat
I am not sure what you want out of I3, but if it is "i3 configuration is too complicated" might I suggest spectrwm. I like it because it hits that sweet spot for a tilling WM between "more configurable than dwm" and "less configurable than i3"
https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
Plus I find it handles multiple monitors well.
neilv
If you want tiling, but i3 requires too much manual work, you might like the more managed layouts that are the default in XMonad: https://xmonad.org/
XMonad works fine with multiple monitors. Each monitor displays one of the many virtual desktops. The normal keys for desktops and for windows work pretty intuitively with multiple monitors.
gazunklenut
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Comparison_of_tiling_window...
You're spoilt for choice really...
hulitu
tl;dr "It currently does not do anything to facilitate working on multiple monitors, as in my current setup I'm only using a single monitor for my Linux machine."
vidarh
I'm the author, and that's still true. I'd be open to addressing it, but it's not currently a priority for me to work on. I'm moving soon - if my new office gives me space for a second monitor that may change ;)
null
I'm the author. This was discussed on HN a year ago too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087609
Note that the warnings still apply. I have used it continuously since, and there are a few bugs here and there but it mostly works for my use which is very basic, and does e.g. not involve more than a single monitor.