Arch in the default state uses much more ram than I am used to from Arch-style installs of Debian. And also more than typical in Arch-based minimalist distros, and also in EOS Openbox community edition.
It is around 950MB after a reboot with my relatively spartan Fluxbox and a few timers and services.
The saying it that “unused ram is wasted ram”, but psychologically it was so nice to see Debian at 450-500 ram with much the same install.
Arch also seem to scale the ram usage depending on how much you have installed.
Correction , i have hyprland fully setup and configured now from clean boot it uses a bit more then 500mb, but thats because waybar simply slow launches for some reason i did not yet found out , but what i do know don’t use the regular sddm, but the git version reboot and logout is now way faster almost instant. now i need to check way waybar is slow launching when you logon to hypr maybe its best to launch it before sddm.
I did watch that to great. i did steal a few things but not all
i have created some custom modules for hypr the same i have for bspwm, took me a freakinghole day to setup waybar, because for some reason it launches very slowly at first, and reloading is also a pain in the but. i’m looking at that to make this launch real fast just like polybar…
I already have a idea hot to that , but i dont know if i3 and bspwm getting some issues then.
Nice. Thanks for sharing this! Been reading hypr wiki a lot and it looks very tempting. It has lot of the features that I like in BSP and i3. Have you tested mouse gestures yet?
And if you still want to use rofi with wayland then you need to install this version rofi-lbonn-wayland-git its a rofi fork with wayland support and x11.
It is the Fluxbox “root menu”. Openbox and Fluxbox both have that. It is a right-click menu. I use Fbmenugen to automaticlly generate it. Fbmenugen is written by the same person who made OBmenu generator for Openbox.
The reason I use Fluxbox, is because you can set it to remember all windows size and position, so that apps open where I last had them open. That is a must to me, as long as I am on a floating WM. The next step will probaly a tiling wm, but probably not for a while yet.
I tweaked an existing menu theme, changed colours and added borders.
