dwm

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with dwm, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Two-column layout doesn't fit very wide screens well2023-03-04
Dual monitor setup requires fiddling with config files, too much effort2023-03-04
Placing windows requires thinking about masters, nmasters and layouts2022-06-11
Customizing requires editing C source and recompiling the project2022-01-14
Hard to configure, requiring source edits to change settings2016-09-28
Tiling layout is impractical; can't keep terminals at a fixed 80-column size2015-11-15
Without a desktop environment, every task like automounting or printer setup must be sourced, compared, and configured manually2013-01-07
No obvious way back to the login window once in a dwm session2013-01-03