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.

  • ScottE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 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.

  • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    i3 until the day I die

    Edit: Why? Because I love how easy it is to get working, it’s a nice balance between features and simplicity for me, and IPC features are great for some QoL plugins. Its configuration file format is simple enough, I like lua with wezterm and neovim but I don’t really see the point with a WM, I just need to see my windows when I want, the way I want, and to switch to others.

    • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Can you list some QoL mods for i3? I have been using autotiling for the last few months and it’s great.

    • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I too would be interested to know what plugins you use.

      I love i3 and have used it for years and find myself fruitlessly using the most common keybinds in windows at work.

      But my gripes over i3 are:

      • If I don’t know the name of the command, say a specific settings window, etc - then I’m hosed if I need it.
      • It doesn’t come with a lock screen by default, you need a plugin for it
      • lckdscl [they/them]@whiskers.bim.boatsEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Here’s a list of plugins that may be useful:

        • kitti3: quake style dropdown terminal
        • tdrop: the same as kitti3, but I moved to wezterm due to kitty’s design choice and tdrop fits the bill, it’s also wm agnostic.
        • i3-volume: integrates with dunst for me to pop up volume status when I change volume via keybinds.
        • autotiling: A must have in my opinion. I seldom have more than 2 windows on a monitor, since I have two monitors and utilize other workspace, but there are times when I temporarily have multiple windows open and too lazy to group them into stacks or tabs.
        • i3expo: I heard people have success with this as an alt-tabber with visualization. I just use dmenu and have scripts for window switching.
        • wmfocus: quite useful if you have multiple monitors and multiple windows on each, instead of doing Super + h a few times to move to the left most window, I just use wmfocus and hop to it immediately.
        • i3-extras: I just found this, perhaps it’s of use.

        Regarding your gripe #1, I don’t quite understand? Do you mean you don’t know the command of a program to type into your terminal to launch?

        And gripe #2, if you mean i3lock, I’m okay with that, I like that i3 follows UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well, and because of that good i3lock forks exist! If it was baked into i3 then this might not be the case.

        For i3-lock, I currently use i3lock-fancy-rapid, it’s a weird name lol, but it is still dependent on the i3lock-color binary, which itself is a fork of i3lock.

  • Borgzilla@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Not sure if this counts as a tiling window manager, but I spend most of my time in emacs in full screen mode. I can create, delete, resize, and swap my windows.

    • a_statistician@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’m not sure my solution counts either - I just use quicktile with default KDE, because it has the tiling bits that I need and the config file was simple enough that I didn’t have to spend a whole day setting it up. I need working memory for other things besides keyboard shortcuts.

  • Word of Mouth@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS… I love how it combines tiling and stacking. Sure I could use workspaces instead of stacks, but with stacks… I can use both!

    I’ve also used EXWM and am going to give it another whirl after I upgrade to emacs 28 with native comp

    • ollien@fedia.io
      1·
      2 years ago

      Does this support independent workspaces on each monitor? That’s what kept me from using i3 on Plasma :(

  • kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

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

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

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

    • whoopingsneeze@fedia.io
      1·
      2 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.

  • fabhian_arkantos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Today I use Plasma, but if I need a tiling wm I use awesome. It’s so great and customizable. If you’re fine with Lua, is easy to config.

  • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Starting with i3 as my first, i tried a bunch of different ones. Xmonad and Qtile were the ones i liked the most but Qtile was buggy and Xmonad while working was super confusing to configure with haskell.

    Also tried AwesomeWM, it felt a bit buggy to me in terms of window handling and DWM was just too complicated to patch and even with patches it was too basic

    Ended up going back to i3, and then moved over to Sway.

  • NateSwift@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice