Qtile Is My New (Old) Window Manager

I've primarily lived in the XMonad tiling window manager for the last couple of years. I needed a change. And that change is Qtile!
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[@arianh]

Thanks, DT! Really excited that you've come back to Qtile.

[@ZeStig]

QTile is my second choice for a WM. The bar is the best bar I've seen across any WM. I'm running Hyprland on NixOS right now, but I was an Arch+Qtile fanboy for a very long time.

[@besnikrrustemi]

Hey DT, the KeyChord problem is gone because on your previous config you used dgroups_key_binder=simple_key_binder(“mod4”) and now you have the workspaces keybinding setup differently.

[@HannoImmelman]

Im considering trying out a tile manager. Currently I have fedora kde but I find tiling managers very interesting and im a software dev so qtile with python looks quite familiar.

[@elementxyz]

Installed qtile a few days ago on arch linux. Because i watched your older videos. 😁 I'm really liking qtile.

[@HeCodes2Much]

I just switched myself yesterday so gonna be a good video :)

[@YrmiZ]

Been waiting for new qtile content.

[@thepathnotfound]

Great video

[@juipeltje]

Funny how this video came out right while i'm in the middle of switching to qtile. Was using i3 before this, but after a few months of using it i realized that i always forget to manually decide how a window should be placed, so i figured a dynamic tiler would suit me better. I ended up going for qtile because at first glance python seemed the most understandable to me compared to lua in awesome and haskell in xmonad. And so far i'm really liking it. Haven't experimented with the layouts too much yet. Mainly just using monadtall now. I really like animations though so i'm afraid that eventually if i ever decide to move to wayland i'll have to move again to something like hyprland.

[@garygordonhiggs]

I like qtile also, can't believe I'm the only one using the wallpaper widget, make it so easy to change wallpapers........also using the weather widget, which is easy and nice.

[@manee427]

greate video

[@gorrumKnight]

Personally I have gone Hyprland because on my Arc GPU I have had 0 issues running under Wayland (and my god it's butter smooth). I've heard that it can be a bit wonky on Nvidia, but I never plan on going team green again so not my problem, lol. I have had to learn a little CSS to dress up Waybar, but I feel like that's a good skill to pick up anyways.

[@PersiusKane]

what is that dashboard on the side in the homescreen

[@ricardor8044]

What colorscheme are you using on your emacs config ?

[@phillipanselmo8540]

I've seriously been considering lately whether I should use qtile with both wayland and x11 backbends or using both dwl and dwm, I still don't know, only have tried out qtile and dwm

[@SHuRiKeN1812]

Just for info.. StatusNotifier is used on Qtile wayland and not Systray, which is basically a system tray that does work on wayland and is included in Qtile.

[@kelvinpina8815]

I just installed yesterday in my new arch install

[@dsdxtech]

Hey DT! I'm loving qtile but it seems like I can't have more than 9 groups (workspaces). I'm not finding much help on this subject. In bspwm w/ polybar I have 20 per monitor. Is there a way to do this in qtile or do I need to use polybar?

[@SirWolf404]

What a co-incidence. I've just today switched from i3 to Qtile. So far so good. I'm liking the Columns view quite a lot, and max too makes a lot of sense for me. The other's I'm keeping them in, just to see if they fit into my workflow somehow. Matrix seems to be nice for when I want to look at many things at once :P but not very flexible. I'm still getting used to having layouts... I can 100% believe DT used 6+ hours configuring key bindings. None of it is standardize, which is making me a bit annoyed, and on top of that the docs don't cover all lazy.layout commands. I had to look at the source to figure out exactly what was available for some of the less documented layouts...

[@stinkysockboi2366]

Hey when i use your dotfiles with i3 polybar doesnt appear and/or work