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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by amock »

adambyrtek wrote: post #15

Xmonad, one of the best tiling window managers out there. It is very easy to grasp for beginners[1], has a comprehensive documentation and is extremely powerful under the hood. The configuration is in Haskell, which makes it Turing-complete, but you can customize Xmonad even if you are not familiar with the language. [1] http://xmonad.org/tour.html

Xmonad is what finally made me decide to switch to Linux from OS X. I'd tried other window managers but none of them acted quite how I wanted them to. Xmonad with Xmobar and dmenu is an amazing combination.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by kroger »

mindslight wrote: post #41

I go with the (distribution) flow and use KDE/kwin. I dumped Gnome/metacity a while ago as it wouldn't do more than 12 desktops, while kwin gives me 20. F1-F12 for the first 12, Alt+F1-F8 for the rest. Every major window is fullscreen on its own desktop and can thus be switched with one keypress (I like desktops over some sort of window-focus hotkey as it gives me a spatial metaphor to how keys are assigned). For exa…

I can have 36 desktops with the gnome in ubuntu 10.04 (not that I do, I just use 6 ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by mahmud »

Windows XP.

I have used Linux almost daily for the last 12 years; a good chunk of them via putty/ssh from XP. I headless Slackware box without X; ssh or serial is just fine by me.

At the risk of being mauled to death, I also have a Mac that I just got used, and I only ssh to it. Couldn't be bothered to figure its quirks; will come handy when I get into iphone dev though.

Also, I will not use a non Thinkpad machine if it was given to me for free. My current setup is an R51; Pentium M, 1GB RAM, and 33GB disk.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by technomancy »

die_sekte wrote: post #43
pwpwp wrote: post #17

ratpoison, because it actually manages those pesky windows.

I use ratpoison on a ThinkPad X201. I basically only have one xterm with tmux and one browser open. Ratpoison is the least annoying window manager for that.

> I basically only have one xterm with tmux and one browser open.

What more could one ask for?

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by belitsky »

belitsky wrote: post #4

I prefer WMII in VirtualBox as development enviroment. http://wmii.suckless.org/

And i forgot to mention a Vimperator project. It's really useful peace of software. It let you to surf the web with keyboard only. http://vimperator.org/vimperator

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by nsm »

kwin because it has such great configuration options. You can customize everything by window class/title etc, like which desktop it goes to, is it always on top/bottom, maximized horizontally/vertically, skip the taskbar etc.

The compositing effects Present Windows Desktop Grid are actually useful

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

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Post by timmy-turner »

adambyrtek wrote: post #15

Xmonad, one of the best tiling window managers out there. It is very easy to grasp for beginners[1], has a comprehensive documentation and is extremely powerful under the hood. The configuration is in Haskell, which makes it Turing-complete, but you can customize Xmonad even if you are not familiar with the language. [1] http://xmonad.org/tour.html

Xmonad works so well that I even rejected to work with a second monitor. At least for me its currently faster switching to another desktop using capslock- than physically adjusting my eyes to another display.
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