Void Linux user here with Qtile - Wayland as my WM.

I was a serious Arch user for 10+ years when I finally decided to give Void a go on an old laptop. Needless to say Iloved it so much that it is now my daily driver. I even had a blip for a month where I thought I missed Arch but nope I just came running back home to Void. Give it a try you won't be disappointed also take a read of this blog Unmasking the hidden gems of Void Linux

Or if you're running Qtile under Wayland then Qtile is the compositor too. My dotfiles and a screenshot are here to show what's possible.

https://codeberg.org/...

Yes if you run Qtile with X but not yet under Wayland but that is under discussion by the devs as well as other features.

Yep I 100% recommend Fuzzel too !

Give MaomaoWM a shot it's like dwl, river, hyprland all rolled into one and is very light on resources.

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/maomaowm

You could use swayidle and add a line to use either light or brightnessctl to dim and restore the brightness. Or just as I do turn off display after a certain time. This link should give you an idea. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Idle

I'm liking the diy PC case. What's inside if you don't mind me asking ?

OK I've only come across the command in the example twice whilst looking.

https://github.com/...

And here where they say it does work ?

https://www.reddit.com/...

MaomaoWM has animations and has more layouts than River. It even has a scrolling layout like Niri.

Maybe try wib here and use a rule in your Sway config to toggle it ?

I was a longtime Arch user 10+ years up until recently when I decided to give Void Linux a shot. In hindsight I wish that I'd made the switch earlier as I love it !

She sounds familiar 😉

Same as a Chimera Linux user I'd definitely recommend trying it. I was a Void user beforee and was Swithering whether to go full BSD when I stumbled across Chimera which gives me the best of both worlds.

You can find out how to install Qtile using pip on the README of my dotfiles link posted above.

You can either put the sha that you want in the download url:

https://github.com/{username}/{projectname}/archive/{sha}.zip

Or you do it via the github website and click on a commit at the right and then click the two <> which will load that specific commit and click on the download zip file button ( code button ).

Thank you and glad they're of use to you.

Thank you and tbh I haven't attempted to run hyprland on void as I used to run it on arch as my daily. Since switching to void I haven't really looked back and don't feel the need for all the bells and whistles.

To get neofetch to display river and not sway make sure that you have either lsof or fuser packages installed and it should display river then. See lines 1902-1903 from this link.

https://github.com/...

Very nice !