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I really wish there was a window manager that (a) looks good and modern (b) can tile well but also allows for free floating windows (c) has simple commands, no

by dheera 5y ago

I really wish there was a window manager that (a) looks good and modern (b) can tile well but also allows for free floating windows (c) has simple commands, not multi stroke Emacs-style commands (d) can allow tiling with the mouse with snapping

smoldesu 5y ago
i3wm and Sway cover pretty much every base except for (a), if you configure it properly. I'm not a huge fan of the default i3 bindings (feels a little too "Emacs-style" like you suggested), but Regolith Linux[0] has really great default shortcuts that replace stock i3. I heavily recommend checking it out in a VM or Liveboot environment if it's something that interests you.
rainingmonkey 5y ago
Have you considered kWin? Sounds like it meets all your requirements. If you're worried about 'bloat', it's surprisingly lightweight and you don't need to pull in a full KDE desktop environment.
- dheera 5y ago
  Not super worried about bloat, but I do want it to have a Wayland future since X11/Xorg has massive screen tearing on my machine ... And KDE doesn't wake up properly from suspend on my machine. :-/ I actually like Cinnamon a lot since you can hit Windows+LEFT/UP/RIGHT/DOWN and at least tile in 4 regions (though I wish it could split more fine grained, and I wish they supported Wayland.
cycomanic 5y ago
Enlightenment might be what you're looking for (not the old e16 which is still maintained but the successor which was called e17). It has quite a bit of eyecandy, looks good and there is a tiling module.
lostmsu 5y ago
I developed one for Windows: https://losttech.software/stack.html https://losttech.software/stack.html
dkersten 5y ago
I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic! [1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm [2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca https://github.com/enticeing/musca)

by dheera 5y ago

smoldesu 5y ago

i3wm and Sway cover pretty much every base except for (a), if you configure it properly. I'm not a huge fan of the default i3 bindings (feels a little too "Emacs-style" like you suggested), but Regolith Linux[0] has really great default shortcuts that replace stock i3. I heavily recommend checking it out in a VM or Liveboot environment if it's something that interests you.

rainingmonkey 5y ago

Have you considered kWin? Sounds like it meets all your requirements. If you're worried about 'bloat', it's surprisingly lightweight and you don't need to pull in a full KDE desktop environment.

dheera 5y ago
Not super worried about bloat, but I do want it to have a Wayland future since X11/Xorg has massive screen tearing on my machine ... And KDE doesn't wake up properly from suspend on my machine. :-/ I actually like Cinnamon a lot since you can hit Windows+LEFT/UP/RIGHT/DOWN and at least tile in 4 regions (though I wish it could split more fine grained, and I wish they supported Wayland.

cycomanic 5y ago

Enlightenment might be what you're looking for (not the old e16 which is still maintained but the successor which was called e17). It has quite a bit of eyecandy, looks good and there is a tiling module.

lostmsu 5y ago

I developed one for Windows: https://losttech.software/stack.html https://losttech.software/stack.html

dkersten 5y ago

I used to love GOOMWWM[1] and used it for the longest time. I miss a lot of things about it, still. It doesn't quite meet your requirements, looks-wise its very minimal and it doesn't have snapping, but I really liked the idea behind it: make a keyboard-centric stacking/floating window manager that gives you enough control that it can be used as if it were a (manual[2]) tiling window manager. It really feels like a tiling window manager and its fantastic! [1] https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm https://github.com/seanpringle/goomwwm [2] I personally use sway these days, but I still prefer manual tiling where I move and size windows myself, rather than having the WM try to do it for me, as long as the WM makes it very easy to do, as goomwwm did (and its predecessor, musca: https://github.com/enticeing/musca https://github.com/enticeing/musca)