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Ask HN: What's the best tiling window manager in 2021?
- chaganated 6y agobeen very satisfied with i3. haven't tried any others, unless tmux counts.
- Less_Fruit_1 6y agoindeed i3 is pretty simple and satisfying.
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 6y agoI always enjoyed dwm [1] the most, but I have since switched to a wayland environment and with that I am now using sway [2]. [1]: https://dwm.suckless.org/ https://dwm.suckless.org/ [2]: https://swaywm.org/ https://swaywm.org/
- FroshKiller 6y agoWhy specify “in 2021”? You worried someone’s gonna hip you to the bet tiling window manager of 2037 instead?
- netizen-936824 6y agoI want to know what the beat tiling manager was in 1997
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- approxim8ion 6y agoFor me it's bspwm. It's closer to i3 in simplicity, but has some dynamic tiling functionality that "cooler" WMs do. It's very modular, the documentation is great and you can get started in just a few minutes. "power users" or people who are willing to get their feet wet with code can check out XMonad (Haskell), AwesomeWM(Lua), and Qtile(Python) as well. DWM (C) is a popular choice too nowadays and is rather nice, but I can't bring myself to care about terribly documented software that justifies it by saying "we'd like our user base to be small and elitist."
- mantlepro 6y agoi3 has been a favorite window manager for a number of years, though I recently started using EXWM and greatly enjoy the translation layer (simulation-keys) that allows Emacs key bindings to be used in other applications.
- reconquestio 6y agoWell, it's still i3 [1]. [1] — https://i3wm.org/ https://i3wm.org/