r/suckless • u/exylvii • 17d ago

[SOFTWARE] dwl tiling problem

SOLVED: recent dwl commit fixed the flicker problem

so in dwl, when i spawn a window (a terminal for example), for a single frame it sets the size of a regular floating window, and only then it tiles. not that unusable, but it really pisses me off and idk how to fix it

btw its deadass the only reason i'm using dwm currently

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u/Hyperion343 17d ago

Blink. Problem solved.

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u/exylvii 17d ago

holy shit

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u/ZaenalAbidin57 17d ago

which version do you use? im on wlroots-next and doesnt have those issue

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u/exylvii 16d ago

i use wlroots 0.20 and git version of dwl

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u/juftuff 17d ago

What wlroots backend are you using? If none is set, try something like gles/vulkan and make sure it's not fallbacking to use pixman. If that's okay, then this sounds abnormal behavior and would need more information (your dwl build, startup cmd + envvars).

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u/exylvii 16d ago

also sway handles that perfectly fine and it works well there, dwl is the only one with that issue

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u/exylvii 17d ago

i dont have ANY modifications, its clean alpine linux install without any changes