[EXWM](https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm) is an
[Emacs](id:62a9456a-e08a-4dc4-8e9d-310deffdb720) 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](https://github.com/walseb/exwm-firefox-evil) to
allow for the use of Firefox's keybindings through Emacs. My
configuration can be found
[here](https://github.com/jakechv/dotfiles/tree/master/emacs/.doom.d/modules/desktop/exwm).

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.

# Fixing issues

[run emacs in emacs for better exwm
performance](https://tech.toryanderson.com/2020/10/19/emacs-in-emacs-a-triumph-for-exwm/)
[in which a path is charted through the coming apocalypse -
Technomancy](https://technomancy.us/184): On adopting EXWM to re-enable
comfortable keyboard shortcuts and interface tooling for Emacs.