EXWM

[EXWM] is an {Emacs} window manager that I used for a few months as a full-time software developer. It's a fun idea with a lot of flaws - inheriting those flaws from emacs, naturally.

It's a simple wrapper for X11 functions that allows for the user to interface primarily with Emacs. I'm making use of a [Firefox compatibility layer] to allow for the use of Firefox's keybindings through Emacs. My configuration can be found [here].

Thankfully, even if I'm not using EXWM, Emacs just displays an error that 'another X window manager is running' when the EXWM configuration is loaded. It's no problem to keep the configuration in my dotfiles even when I'm using bspwm or another window manager.

As I make more extensive use of org-mode, I find myself using fewer and fewer tools outside of Emacs. I've found that the tools I do use often have Emacs plugins that allow them to be used as Emacs functions as well.

Really, Emacs (and EXWM) are partial solutions to a more systemic issue -- the way in which the Unix philosophy has lost its way on the modern Linux system.