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Could you list your window manager of choice and also which others you explored (along with any observations)? I'm sure at least a few people here would be inte

Could you list your window manager of choice and also which others you explored (along with any observations)? I'm sure at least a few people here would be interested.

onli 10y ago
Not parent, but one answer I can give you is IceWM. It's a classic WM with a complete feature set supporting all advanced features like these (everything that is not tiling).
shadeless 10y ago
i3wm is a pretty popular tiling window manager which supports what parent described - you can set a window to "float" (so it doesn't tile, you can move around it like in a regular wm) and you can also set it to be "sticky" (so it stays visible even if you switch to a different workspace).
- city41 10y ago
  Yup, i3 is what I'm using. I admit my wm investigation wasn't that thorough, I mostly chose i3 because coworkers use it and I really liked it right off the bat. I also tried xmonad and awesome. And not that anyone will see this now, but most people in this thread were responding to my "OSX and Windows don't offer powerful window management solutions" specifically in reference to my comment about floating windows. That's just one example of many things OSX/Windows doesn't allow the user to do. Not to be too dramatic, but i3 has made me more productive, more focused and happier while working. I now fear ending up in an environment where using Linux isn't possible. It's really that good. But really, tiling window managers are that good.
pwg 10y ago
Not parent, but Fvwm2 is extremely configurable such that you can tweak it to look and behave in almost any way you desire.
petre 10y ago
Xfwm (part of XFCE) but that's kind of useless w/o the other components around it such as the panel, the config, so you probably want the full desktop environment (don't worry, it's rather lightweight). I also used Fluxbox and Openbox and like both very much, but they are kind of basic. Working with any of those is both faster and easier than any of Windows or MacOS, for me at least.

Could you list your window manager of choice and also which others you explored (along with any observations)? I'm sure at least a few people here would be interested.

onli 10y ago

Not parent, but one answer I can give you is IceWM. It's a classic WM with a complete feature set supporting all advanced features like these (everything that is not tiling).

shadeless 10y ago

i3wm is a pretty popular tiling window manager which supports what parent described - you can set a window to "float" (so it doesn't tile, you can move around it like in a regular wm) and you can also set it to be "sticky" (so it stays visible even if you switch to a different workspace).

city41 10y ago
Yup, i3 is what I'm using. I admit my wm investigation wasn't that thorough, I mostly chose i3 because coworkers use it and I really liked it right off the bat. I also tried xmonad and awesome. And not that anyone will see this now, but most people in this thread were responding to my "OSX and Windows don't offer powerful window management solutions" specifically in reference to my comment about floating windows. That's just one example of many things OSX/Windows doesn't allow the user to do. Not to be too dramatic, but i3 has made me more productive, more focused and happier while working. I now fear ending up in an environment where using Linux isn't possible. It's really that good. But really, tiling window managers are that good.

pwg 10y ago

Not parent, but Fvwm2 is extremely configurable such that you can tweak it to look and behave in almost any way you desire.

petre 10y ago

Xfwm (part of XFCE) but that's kind of useless w/o the other components around it such as the panel, the config, so you probably want the full desktop environment (don't worry, it's rather lightweight). I also used Fluxbox and Openbox and like both very much, but they are kind of basic. Working with any of those is both faster and easier than any of Windows or MacOS, for me at least.