feel free to list other window managers you’ve used.

I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.

I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.

  • kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Same here, but I’m about ready to accept Wayland… Seems like sway is the best option?

    • whoopingsneeze@fedia.io
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      3 years ago

      I haven’t used XMonad in a long time, but it was my go-to for a few years. It was solid. The main issue is that you configure it in Haskell, and I don’t know Haskell.

  • PMunch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I use i3, but to say that I like it is a bit overstated. It’s fine, does what I expect the very basic of a tiling window manager to do. I used Nimdow for a while and it’s pretty good, the default bar is way better than i3 (supports ANSI colour coding, mouse presses, etc.), but I could never quite get to grips with the tiling algorithm.

    I’m working on my own WM though, it’s not tiling per-se, I choose to call in non-overlapping and I’m trying to solve my gripes with i3. Basically windows should not be forcefully expanded if they don’t want to. Try open galculator under i3 and watch the horror. And when expanded the size should be split based on their initial sizes. So if I have Firefox open and want to do something in a quick terminal window the terminal won’t get 1/2 of the screen. Firefox wanted more space than the terminal initially, so the terminal gets to take up a smaller share of the space.

  • Hatch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I started with for a bit awm, however i am giving qtile a try since im learning how to code python so good practice.

  • pyska@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    i3 gang rise up!

    I’ve only tried i3 and it just works, so I stuck with it. After learning the hotkeys it never seems to get in the way (at least for my usage). Riced it a bit. Then some polybar sparkled in there. A wallpaper. What more can a guy want?

  • ForynGilnith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    My heart still belongs to enlightenment/e17 but I’ve been using i3 for the past few years, and then hyprland for the last 4 months or so. It’s working out well.

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Man e16 was the shit. If it played nice with hot-plugging monitors, I’d still use it today. It had some awesome themes, too.

      What’s e17 like? I’ve truthfully never used it, though I daily Terminology as a terminal emulator.

      • ForynGilnith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        Ahhh, e17 - I’ve got memories of building it from either cvs or svn at the time as soon as it was announced by rasterman on Slashdot.

        e17 was my daily driver for a long time. It looked very pretty, before compositing was even a thing on the desktop, all without sacrificing performance. The biggest downside was that it wrote its configs as binary blobs which frequently broke as new development releases came out.

  • ScottE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    i3 is what I’ve been using the past few years. I’ve tried others, but I always end back up with i3 as I’ve found nothing else to be as simple and efficient for my workflow, with 12 workspaces across 2 monitors.

  • PapaTorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I really like dwm. It doesn’t seem too popular so maybe the other ones are better but it was the first one I tried so the others feel weird to me. I like the idea behind suckless in general though.

  • rwxrwxrwx@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I used StumpWM for many years. It was great for most of my workflow and, being written in Common Lisp, you can recompile parts of it while it’s running (I didn’t do this often but it was a cool feature).

  • linkert@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Sway with autotiling and a few nifty scripts (launch or focus and such) and Waybar. The combination of having scratchpads, sensible autotiling along with titlebars and the wonderful world of wayland is supreme.