EXWM
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6recommend
0warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Some people use Emacs /as a tiling window manager/”
“But overall happy!”
active EXWM user for 1.5-2 yearson “Emacs is my new window manager (2015)”
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“You can also use EXWM in Xephyr”
“For development work I haven't found this to be an issue.”
“You'll have to pry EXWM[0] from my cold, dead hands”
Caveats and dissent
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Threads where it came up
- Emacs is my new window manager (2015) 2 mentions
- How I am deeply integrating Emacs 2 mentions
- Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak 1 mention
- ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory 1 mention
- Gnome Mutter Now "Completely Drops the Whole X11 Back End" 1 mention
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“I personally use X11 as I am on exwm and exwm does not support wayland”
“Some people use Emacs /as a tiling window manager/”
“But overall happy!”
“You can also use EXWM in Xephyr”
If you want to try eshell, try combining it with EAT (eat-eshell-mode). > Maybe in my retirement I will end my career by helping to make emacs + EXWM multi threaded. I am guessing that is a daunting project, but it sure would be fulfilling. This isn't fixable with threads, unfortunately. The issue is that: 1. Emacs e.g., launches a process with call-process. This blocks EVERYTHING (including other threads). 2. That p
“For development work I haven't found this to be an issue.”
“You'll have to pry EXWM[0] from my cold, dead hands”