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Look at all those installed packages.
How many? Definitely more than… 3.
That’s really good! 2 questions: What were your compile times like for AwesomeWM, and what terminal emulator are you using that can diplay pictures in it?
Apologies for the late reply here - compile times are pretty quick. After configuring I’m really not recompiling; are you curious about the literal compile time of awesome itself or load up time from startup for example?
Pictures in terminal are done by ranger. I’m using kitty for my terminal - I’ve had more benefit from running it over something like alacritty for example.
I’m curious about the compile time specifically, because if I decide to use Gentoo one day, my dwm and dwl configs are pretty bare bones, and I haven’t been able to motivate myself to make these work for me properly, so I would prefer to use something reliable that always works everywhere, that being: AwesomeWM. It’s the only window manager that has worked properly on any distro I’ve ever tried it on, without exceptions. That’s why I was asking.
It’s quick as in seconds - and the stability is the exact reason I went with it as well for my case. One thing to note that may be a huge factor if you go this route, is I use openRC over systemd. This might affect compiles, because at least one of those will be a dependency.
The other large factor is not having to recompile it every time you update the config. For me, that was the largest turn off especially for dwm. It was very easy to setup as well, in terms of going from no WM to something functional and clean. The awesomeWM gentoo documentation is great and I recommend it for an idea if you’re interested.