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If anyone wants a trip down the memory lane, http://www.xwinman.org/ http://www.xwinman.org/ is still up. A long, long time ago -- but still quite some time af
by alxlaz 7y ago
If anyone wants a trip down the memory lane, http://www.xwinman.org/ http://www.xwinman.org/ is still up.
A long, long time ago -- but still quite some time after it stopped being (too) regularly maintained -- I emailed Matt Chapman to ask him to include my WM in the list. He never answered, thank God, that was my first piece of non-trivial X11 code and it was absolutely gruesome, I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
- z5h 7y agoIt's a miracle we could ever choose just one and get to work. Back in my Linux days it was PWM for me. https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/
- benj111 7y agoI can't, which is why I don't install Arch. The temptation when you aren't given a default is too strong.
- alxlaz 7y agoWindowMaker, then FVWM were my drugs. I used tiling window managers for a while, when my typical workstation was a laptop, but now that I have a large-ish screen (27") on a desktop they're pretty bad -- everything is either too wide to be useful, or too narrow. Ratpoison was definitely my favourite (I also use Emacs, figures...), but I liked wmii, too. By the time I ran into pwm I was hooked into Ratpoison :). LXQT does its job for me these days. It's not the most polished but at least it doesn't go out of its way to make my desktop look and act like a tablet so I'm happy with it. I've been toying with writing a Wayland compositor that does wmii-like tiling, but can also do proper floating window management, but I have to wait for things to settle on the Wayland front before writing anything that's useful... Edit: whoever downvoted you clearly never had a few hours of fun on a Friday night tweaking FVWM only to find out it's 4 AM now and oh crap it's also Monday!
- fierarul 7y ago> Edit: whoever downvoted you clearly never had a few hours of fun on a Friday night tweaking FVWM only to find out it's 4 AM now and oh crap it's also Monday! I'm still sorry about my FVWM config. It was almost perfect. I should search for it in backups.
- signa11 7y agostill using fvwm2, haven’t found anything that comes close.
- itsmenow 7y agoso do I. Although I discovered it rather late - in 2004. It's remarkable how configurable it is. I adopted some version of what this guy did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo to do "manual tiling". Also can't find anything modern that even remotely can compare.
- imglorp 7y ago+1 for ratpoison - no rodent dependence!
- matttproud 7y agoTuomo Valkonen's Ion was my saviour for easily a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(window_manager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(window_manager)
- cannam 7y agoFunny to think that writing a window manager once seemed like quite a good use of one's time. I wonder what today's equivalent is. I still in theory maintain one of mine (wmx), and this thread just prompted me to go and fix a few warnings that newer compilers come up with. Egads, there's some grubby code in there.
- jabl 7y agoOh gawd, I spent so much time looking at that site and searching for the "best" wm. As my main WM, I've used fvwm (which I think was the default on slackware back then), olvwm (since I was used to Sun Unix machines from a summer job...), afterstep/windowmaker (NeXT was cool), fluxbox, kde 1.x-3.x, xmonad. Nowadays I'm just using gnome with pretty much default configs.
- aidenn0 7y agoI stopped using sawfish like a year ago. I had so many customizations for it that I didn't want to switch.