xmonad, awesome, i3, dwm, ratpoison, qtile, bspwm, wmii. Which one do you use and why
To all you window manager autists
Thomas Phillips
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Asher Diaz
> i3 + i3status + dmenu + conky
Sane defaults and it's easy to customize. Awesome is a very decent option for the same reasons. Gaps are gay.
Owen James
why not consider using polybar instead of i3status?
Kayden Russell
Started on ratpoison back in 2011, now on i3 since early last year. Thinking of switching to dwm. Opinions?
Jack Gray
bspwm
Robert Cox
if you dont care about looks why would you use polybar?
Brayden Gutierrez
I use rio.
Nathaniel Morales
Xmonad. reason? Haskell
Aiden Brown
Sway because it's the best Wayland environment right now.
Matthew Ross
I have a sway compile script (pre 1.0) for Ubuntu but I don't want to fuck with that again (dep hell).
I wish they had an official PPA because I'm not going to use a random russian user PPA.
Asher Morris
man that was a good movie
Charles Jackson
Just build from git master, it's super fast.
Jonathan Gutierrez
Yes that's what my script did/does. But Ubuntu had a lot of older dependencies and you need to build the entire tree not just sway. Even jsonc was a problem and if you need to touch wl protocols you're fucked.
Andrew Richardson
used i3 for 5 years. switched to bspwm last week.
i3 is great, bspwm is also okay. my only qualm with (default) bspwm is the amount of hotkeys. with i3, resizing windows was put into a mode (mod+r -> resize), but bspwm by default just adds +alt to the binding, and +shift+alt to shrinking windows, which is ridiculous
I like that you can predetermine the split direction with bspwm though. the only reason I'm trying it out (feeling like going back to i3 though, because using super, ctrl, alt, and shift for things is annoying, vs with i3 almost everything is just mod or mod shift)
I know the entire binding schema can be redone, but...
why would you not care about looks?
Luke Lee
Angel Taylor
why yes, I use Gnome 3, how did you guess?
Jacob Ward
wayland-protocols is literally just some XML files. I don't know why so many people seem to have any issues with it.
Robert Carter
I use i3 because I can get the colors to match polybar through my .Xresources file which is controlled by my wallpaper by pywall
Christopher Sullivan
Openbox
Cameron Thomas
awesomewm I hate lua but allows to configure everything
Jaxon Powell
>i3 + some scripts for background and screenshots (using imagemagick) and for statusbar
scripts are written in bash and python, and my idle cpu usage is only 2% on my Dell Latitude E6400
Xavier Perez
Why yes, i use dwm
Wyatt Gomez
name?
Joseph Perez
i3 gaps, because it just works.
Liam Edwards
i3
xcb
tabbed not tiling
Jaxon Morgan
don't
what you want is to add this
workspace_layout tabbed
hide_edge_borders smart
Aiden Williams
that would be enlightenment if it wasn't for xdg shell
Nolan Miller
>(pre 1.0)
why
Daniel Nelson
oh but if you insist on dwm i suggest awesome