Catching up with LeftWM: The TWM for Rust Fans 

Sorry to hear about the health issues, get well guys. Thank OTB for this video.

hyprland (tiling window manager) is the new hot thing on Wayland. Not fully mature but interesting development. If you want to have a new toy to play with...

A few days ago I was asking myself "Is there a WM written in rust?", I didn't do a research, but now you're answering me that, really cool, thanks. By the way, your distro looks awesome. Keep doing these videos really informative.

Tyvm sir for your work

I flit back-and-forth between stock GNOME and EXWM, but that does not mean that I am closed to other options. Thanks, Steve, for your videos. And I sincerely hope that both you and Mrs Anelay navigate the troubled waters of our NHS and enjoy better health this new year.

Take care Steve (and the missus as well of course)! Intermittent or not, your vids remain highly informative , so it's always worthwhile to have a look at them. And fun. Other things are more important for now, we'll be here but you gotta take care of yourselves first of all now! See you around soon, we're with you.

yes it works brother ! many thanks

Another source for learning/trying leftwm is ArcoLinux. Erik Dubois is a leftwm addict (self-admitted). I learned a lot about ricing the theme(s) of my choice.

Another Tiler for me to try thanks for the quality content; Hope both you and your wife are or the mend

Hope you and the wife get through it and on the mend soon Steve. Best wishes.

Get well OTB. Thanks for the video.

Quality over quantity - Well worth waiting for. Good health to both of you :)

Thank you. I'll test it.

Nice to see you back again !

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

Great video, OTB! LeftWM is one that I haven't looked at since that initial first look. Definitely should add it back to my list because that theme thing is pretty neat. Hope life is treating you well.

Hey Steve, Great video. Sounds like a solid Window Manager. However, I’m quite content with DWM. Sorry to hear about the health issues. I’ll keep you both in prayer. Take care and get well soon.

Awesome thank you for the info

thank you so much dude you're a god

While this is a awesome video. The .04.0 now uses the .RON files and not the .Toml setup for the files. It is a hole lot different config than the 0.3.0 and is not as easy to edit if you ask me... While I had to go and change all my themes manually doing the config change was painless but a bit confusing at first. Anyway this old fart manages to understand it... Lol I use LeftWm all the time alongside with SpectrWm and I love the theming part of it. I make a new theme, copy it to the other computer and change to link to it and they just work. I use polybar on both window managers now days too. To me there is nothing basic about LeftWm nor SpectrWm they both do what I need and I don't have to be a brain surgeon to change of config them... 🙂 Thanks OTB! Hope you both get better soon. At 68 7/8ths I understand the health issues to be sure! LLAP 🖖

Great channel. Greetings from Tunisia.

This helped a lot thank you

Thank you!

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

It's actually in the repo for Opensuse tumbleweed. Not Leap, though. I hope you and your wife get better. Don't stress yourself out to release videos all the time, take care of yourself.

RIP Steve.

Thanks for another interesting video and I have to agree with you in that dwm is the tiling window manager that I am drawn to at the moment. I run Gentoo Linux anyway, which runs on anything from a Raspberry Pi Zero to a multi-CPU Xeon server in my home (and can run on a whole lot more), and dwm fits in that category of "extremely lite" application that can also run on everything as well - ultimately, my personal goal is to have an identical Gentoo-based desktop running on all devices in my home. (I hate wasting CPU cycles on needless eye candy anyway.) I don't really have an opinion on Rust - ultimately if installation (and compilation in the case of Gentoo) is reasonably transparent and results in as stable and fast applications as a lot of traditional C based ones, then it's fine by me. But I do enjoy taking the "Rust fanboys" down a step or two because of all this constant "it's more secure than C" or "it's means that applications don't crash" nonsense that I keep reading in other channels. I am old enough to remember the same claims being made for Java when it first appeared on the scene and whilst it does have its uses today, everyone with any knowledge of programming knows that Java has a terrible reputation for security. So the fanboys will have to excuse my scepticism - I work in cyber-security and scan and test applications against security compliance against standards like OWASP and I don't believe my job will be getting any easier any time soon just because more and more applications are written is "indestructible" Rust. Bad programmers write bad programs, and there too many people out there who believe they can call themselves "developers" just because they install a programming IDE on their laptops.

This was so helpful!! Thank you

will you take a look at crunch bang plus plus?

Mucisimas gracias... funcciona ;-)

Amazing I did it You made my day Thank you!!

it worked tysm

After seeing your video im packaging leftwm for Slackware im sending it to SBo, there is rust 1.60 in extra, the Slackbuild build leftwm fine, by the way i really like your videos!

Very nice thank you can you plz explain scratchpads little better...

can you make floating windows and titlebars?

18:52 If it is not .3 and not .4 then what is it? haha

It WON"T be when POP gets their full system written in RUST-- including the POP TILING shell..

GVOTB.

Do a video on EMWM - also 1st 1st

@OldTechBloke leftwm is approved on Slackware, i sent you an email from the Slackware forum, kind regards!