Leaving dwm for StumpWM

This tutorial is focused on StumpWM a powerful window manager written
in Lisp. StumpWM and Ratpoison has gotten a bad wrap and I love it. So I am here to
set the record straight.

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00:00 Intro

[GavinFreeborn]

Another Feature I didn't get to touch on was `stumpish` a commandline program that allows you to interact with stumpwm using the same commands available with `prefix ;`. This should give you a good starting point for those of you coming from bspwm. There are plenty of other features I didn't get to mention but but I figured those of you a little new to lisp would appreciate something a bit more familiar.

[zosthegoatherd]

Nice! I just started playing around with StumpWM myself as I try and learn common Lisp.

[LabiaLicker]

Wow being able to treat emacs/vim windows as first class tiles is brilliant. It always irked me that I'm running an application specific "wm" inside a real wm.

[codebitcookie]

Yay, you came to the Lisp and Emacs side! Thanks for this, liked and subbed. Love all of your vidoes, keep it up.

[TheLinuxCast]

Oh, this looks great. Something to try out

[Timjstewart]

StumpWM looked so interesting, I'm giving it a try. Thanks for the great demonstration Gavin!

[noogie]

i’ve been using stumpwm for years, mostly
for the insane hackability in CL. Such a fun WM!

[coppereva]

I love that you can stack windows on top of each other. I wish more tiling WM's had this feature. Like bspwm for example.

[DavidB-zhyd]

Your emacs xorg-window trick would be an awesome contrib module!

[pascal]

I used StumWM about a year ago. I was a bit annoyed when using Zoom, that it was pretty difficult to recover windows that Zoom "minimized". But I mainly switched away from it because I always get tearing on Youtube videos on X11 and wanted to give Wayland a try. StumpWM was very fun to use and I liked the manual tiling paradigm.

[evanjrowley]

Default leader key is Ctrl+T? Finally! A WM optimized for my Dvorak Atreus!

[artesalve]

Hi Gavin, in your research of TWM have you find one that supports desktop zoom to mouse position like Xfce does when holding (alt or super)+scroll wheel?

[claudiusraphael]

Could touch/pen-events be bond and filtered synced to a specific frame?

For example on a wacom pen-touch-screen, allowing binding touch-events to frames that make up a tool-palette and allow in a frame containg the actual drawing-canvas either pen or touch - to override/optimize/addon correct handling that is not given in an application (inkscape/gimp/blender/...)?

Also: is the spacing/margin added by you - is it possible to define frames as linked snuggly to the edge?

[smiley]

I daily drive ratpoison and have never really bought into the hype of stumpwm but I'm going to try it now that I've seen this video

[basscass]

Its time Gavin. Its time to move to GNU Guix.

[noblesavage]

Hey! I was thinking stumpwm when I try guix.... but more importantly I have that wallpaper!!! Gruvbox ftw ;)

[aryakiran]

I just switched to exwm yesterday and now this. Seems i need to do another wm hop this week lol

[slavkaeroxin]

Hey, what is this lightning symbol you have on your PS1, and what's the font?

[Mythologos]

I loved EXWM (I live inside Emacs) but I moved to Fedora and EXWM doesn't work well with it.

[PiotrKaznowski]

Hi, thanks for the vid! How did you install stumpwm? I tried via AUR (Arch) and by building from source, but there's no dynamic group feature available. I was able to find it in the source code, but stump just crashes when I load it from there and try to put a window on a newly created dynamic group like that...