Okay I finally made the switch. I wanted to do this for a long time. It took me an entire day of non-stop configuring, scripting, googling and troubleshooting. Thank god for ChatGPT or this would have taken me a week or something.
decided to go with mechabar which is a pretty cool waybar theme:
https://github.com/sejjy/mechabar
The hardest part was making everything behave more like Awesome WM. I’m old and I can’t learn new tricks. At some point things just have to work the way my muscle memory works. I don’t want to painfully learn new workflows and shortcuts and concepts.
Luckily I found this plugin:
https://github.com/Duckonaut/split-monitor-workspaces
After that and some heavy tinkering I finally got a setup that I can work with.
The rest was adjusting the config so it can work on multiple devices, and autostart scripts, custom lockscreen and creating custom keybindings. vim clipboard was a pain in the ass. I also had to switch from urxvt to kitty or else I would have missed a bunch of features.
But I’m happy now. It behaves almost like Awesome WM and it is new and shiny and I’m now in the cool kids club again and no longer that old fart, that still uses Xorg and Window Managers from before the war.
Also updated all my install scripts. So I won’t have to reinvent the wheel.
Still have some minor issues to tackle. But I’m calling it a day.
