I discovered this two days ago. It’s an alternative shell for tiling managers like hyprland, niri, sway or others. Basically, it makes configuration of those WM really integrated. It’s a click and forget approach, which makes configuration really fast. Cherry on the top : it is compatible with every distro out there! I highly suggest to try to pair with niri.
Links are nice.
maybe I’m just old fashioned or just simply old but I don’t get the new trend of using shells. Isn’t the hole fun of using a compositor the customization? the configuration? opening up your config file in vim and just going to town on it?
to me it just looks like a neon mess of guis with an over dependence on the mouse which, to me at least, defeats the purpose of using a tiling compositor. It’s just faster for me to navigate using the keyboard and the terminal. If I’m tiling, I’m going to have a terminal open, so I configure on the fly via that…why would I need a panel and moving the mouse around to change things?
Again, if you like this sort of thing kudos to you but I don’t get it and I feel like it would slow me down.
Learning about dankmaterialshell today helped me, because I was thinking about switching from sway to mangowc, and I didn’t feel like spending lots of time configuring everything for a wm I’m at this point not sure about I will keep using.
I’ll still have to configure mango by hand, especially the keybinds (the default uses super, alt and crtl all over the place, clashing with my nvim setup in multiple ways). But if I decide I want to keep using mango, I can still replace some or all aspects of DMS. But for now it provided me with a starting point and I can take my time configuring and replacing things when I need to
Why do people have transparent terminals? This would just distract me so hard.
