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I've tried a dozen window managers for weeks at a time. For over a decade I always returned to my old reliable WindowMaker. In the past couple years I started u
by staunch 16y ago
I've tried a dozen window managers for weeks at a time. For over a decade I always returned to my old reliable WindowMaker. In the past couple years I started using Metacity (default in Gnome now).
All I care about is having separate workspaces and a few keyboard shortcuts. I have 7 work spaces: Main (local terminal), Browsing (Chrome/Firefox), Communications (Pidgin/XChat/Skype), Development (GVim/terminal), Email (Thunderbird/GMail), Shells (tabbed remote terminals), Misc (usually shells/music player).
Each workspace is dedicate to a single task. Everything is fully maximized in each workspace (for the most part). I switch between them with Alt+{1,7}. Ctrl+M Maximizes a window. I have a few monitoring applets (CPU/network) in the taskbar thingie. Over time I've found that is all I need to be happy and productive.
- cnvogel 16y agoI also used Windowmaker for a really long time, but stopped when a few years ago it was incompatible with a few of the applications I use (e.g. gaim (now pidgin) would crash very often, and some more annoyances I forgot about). I especially liked docking applications/icons, its good support for virtual desktops and especially the many wmXXX applications that did one job well, in the space of a 64x64 pixel tile. These days, I mostly resort to the "standard" gnome desktop with whatever it uses and resort to something very lightweight such as fluxbox on resource constrained machines.