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Well rather vim wants to be a text text editor while Emacs a computing environment with text editing as the central thing/main interface.

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Indeed. I'm constantly tempted to try switching to a lighter, more editing-centric editor, but the kitchen sink is just too useful. Finally got around to trying EXWM this morning and was amused by the fact that I can run Steam in an Emacs buffer :D.

I am using EXWM everyday for more than a year. It has hugely improved my Emacs workflows and productivity. I would put it on par with Magit :)

It still has few rough edges, so may not be for everybody.

Care to elaborate on some of the rough edges so I can try to avoid them? I've heard bad things about Chrome and almost locked myself out of my WM by using pinentry; Not sure what other gotchas there are.

Not the original poster but here are two issues I currently have with EXWM (have been using it exclusively for about two months now):

1. If Emacs hangs/pauses, the window manager hangs/pauses. Can't really do anything in X so have to switch to a virtual console.

2. GIMP stopped bringing up working file dialogs. I think it is some EXWM configuration change I made.

You might also have issues with tooltips/popups depending on your EXWM configuration.

My biggest issue is w.r.t multiple outputs (xrandr). It works as expected, but requires decent customization effort -- which I think is not for everybody.

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