Sway VS Fluxbox

Sway Reviews

Fluxbox Reviews

Sway mentions (52)

• "We understand" ;)

  This is partially why I use tools like i3 (/ sway). I like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. It just works. It is boring in the best way possible. Source: 5 months ago

• Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

  I've tested using i3 but never fully got into it. But my plan for the F13 is to try out Hyprland[0] and perhaps Sway[1]. [0] https://hyprland.org/ [1] https://swaywm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Rethinking Window Management in Gnome

  Sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Just ran Sway on openSUSE. Complete noob. I need help.

  Read the manual on https://swaywm.org/. There are tons of youtube videos showcasing basic configuration and usage. This is extremely basic stuff you need to do yourself. Source: 11 months ago

• Thinking about doing distro hop after half a year any recommendations?

  While both the Pop Shell and Material shell extensions offer very easy access to window tiling on GNOME, they're not as powerful as the likes of Sway or Hyprland. Source: 11 months ago

Fluxbox mentions (6)

• I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)

  I have been using fluxbox[1] for many years now, happily. It's a very barebones thing (in a good way) while also being highly configurable — customizable keyboard shortcuts, menus, scriptability, etc. It is not a tiling WM. It also doesn't have desktop icons by default. I thought I would miss those, but have found I do not. There are options[2] to add that if you want it. So, my setup is ~8 virtual... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• I'm so undecided about desktop environments, which one should I choose and why are you recommending it? I need a stable, customizable one.

  If you want to customize in detail your desktop and are not afraid to edit text files, awesome and fluxbox can be your option. Source: about 1 year ago

• What's the good window manager for a beginner?

  As far as wms go, I always liked fluxbox and xmonad. Openbox has its fans, and i3 is very popular. I prefer a de over a wm but I know a lot of people use i3. Source: about 2 years ago

• What is your development setup (IDE, gems, library, ci/cd etc) for RoR/non-RoR applications development ?

  Linux (Fedora), gvim (because it opens a new window instead of taking up yet-another-terminal-tab), fluxbox (because it has awesomely configurable hot-key support), dotfiles, chruby + ruby-install (with rubies installed into /opt/rubies), bundler + rspec + yard + rubygems-tasks + gemspec_yml + GitHub Actions on all of my Ruby projects. Source: about 2 years ago

• Any tips to speed up gnome?

  You can use cinnamon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment)) Should work a bit better not perfected. If you are on a potato run fluxbox imo. http://fluxbox.org/. Source: over 2 years ago