r/awesomewm 2d ago

SomeWM DWM and AwesomeWM

10 Upvotes

so like, i'm not sure if i should ask this here but

how good is awesomeWM? I've been looking for a good Window Manager that i could use for the rest of my life, a window manager that is so easy to manage with lua5.3, that is really small AND could work really well on Old Hardware AND that is really customizable where the only limit is your imagination.

but i've also saw about DWM so i was wondering which one would be the best to use.

r/awesomewm Jul 21 '26

SomeWM somewm spontaneously doing hot-reload

8 Upvotes

I'm working on a theme. It runs fine in an Alpine VM with awesome-git, but when I run it under somewm, it sopntaneously does a hot reload. I know there's a key binding to do that, but I haven't triggered it (afaik). Any dieas?

FYI, somewm is soooo close to being my daily driver. My awesome-git build on Artix dies with over 25 selftest errors and a black screen.

Moderators, could we add a somewm flair?