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I've used Fluxbox and Blackbox basically since I was in diapers, but I recently decided that it's really way past time to try a tiling WM, and settled on xmonad
by mquander 16y ago
I've used Fluxbox and Blackbox basically since I was in diapers, but I recently decided that it's really way past time to try a tiling WM, and settled on xmonad after initially trying awesome. I like it a lot so far; it's lightweight, flexible, and very easy to configure, and I'm surprised how little I miss dragging windows around (although I still float some frequently used applications, Chrome and Audacious primary among them.)
I usually have a workspace for shell & filesystem stuff, one for emacs, one for documentation, one for running servers and monitors and other misc. utils for whatever I'm doing, and one floating one for web browser and music.
- adambyrtek 16y agoWhy do you float Chrome windows? Web browsers and terminals are the easiest applications to tile.
- mquander 16y agoHonestly, there's no good reason at all. I'm just so used to resizing my web browser with the mouse all the time to read things better. I should probably break that habit.
- _delirium 16y agoI do occasionally get weirdness with tiling Chrome (though I still do it), when websites try to resize their windows and my window manager won't let it. Some crazy websites depend on multiple sized/moved windows as well, e.g. this thing won't work unless I float the browser: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430
- SiFTW 16y agoI use awesome, it's ... awesome. Try and get away from any floating windows at all, when it's set up correctly there's no need. Also get away from the mouse if you can, mouse free working with Awesome WM is where it shines. shameless plug If anyone's interested in a guide to getting Awesome WM installed and set up with Ubuntu I made one here. http://8bit.co/?p=39 http://8bit.co/?p=39