I've considering i3, xmonad, awesome, spectrewm, and any others you're willing to suggest.
Ask HN: Which Tiling Window Manager do you use?
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#2It doesn't quite count as a tiling window manager, but I just use compiz with the grid plugin, and it gets me everything I wanted from a tiling window manager without losing the ability to move a window around freely occasionally. That plus the cube, no window decoration (that really helps clean things up), and some convenient keyboard/mouse shortcuts makes for a really efficient desktop without the restrictions of a pure tiling window manager.
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#3Awesome was my introduction to tiling WMs, then I went to xmonad for years, and I recently moved over to dwm as I realized suckless had taken over the rest of my machine so why not.
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#4As a corollary question, does anyone use Tiling Window Managers on Windows? Is the one you use good?
I've been using bug.n[1], but my experience has been subpar due to it's bugginess (namely due to applications such as various terminal applications such as cmd/Console2/cmder refusing to re-size themselves properly).
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#5dwm.
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#6I tend to like i3. But all the cool kids on arch are using herbstluft.
To me, Haskell and Lua are turn-offs so xmonad and awesome are out. I don't want to have to learn a programming language to configure my window manager. Straight up well documented C and old school configuration files are the way to go. Plus the tutorial/intro video gets you going quickly.
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#7I tend to like i3. But all the cool kids on arch are using herbstluft. To me, Haskell and Lua are turn-offs so xmonad and awesome are out. I don't want to have to learn a programming language to configure my window manager. Straight up well documented C and old school configuration files are the way to go. Plus the tutorial/intro video gets you going quickly.
I've never heard of herbstluft. What makes all the cool arch kids drawn to it? (the fact I've never heard of it?)
Re: Ask HN: Which Tiling Window Manager do you use?
#8I use dwm with dmenu on arch.
The configuration is in C and it's incredibly lightweight.
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#9I'm using dwm with the flextile and systray patches.
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#10dwm with pertag and systray patches, and also I've changed active window border color to red.