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Great list, although like most tools the full experience comes after spending a great deal of time tinkering with it. Two of my favorites on that list are awm (
by mkhattab 13y ago
Great list, although like most tools the full experience comes after spending a great deal of time tinkering with it. Two of my favorites on that list are awm (Awesome) and i3. I started with awm after using the mess that is Unity (Ubuntu) then switched to OSX. Then I started missing tiling window managers, so I started using spectacle, which is great. Recently my SSD failed on my MBA so I switched to Ubuntu and to the even greater mess than before, Unity. Apparently one needs SLI/Crossfire to get acceptable performance in Unity. So, I switched back awm which is still great but shit when it comes to multi-monitor support out of the box. Finally switched to i3. Moral of the story is one should use what works best for him/her as long as it's not Unity.
- gizmo686 13y agoI use Awesome with multiple monitors and have never noticed any difficulty. What does i3 do differently?
- mkhattab 13y agoi3 will use different workspaces for each monitor. So if you have dual monitors by default, the primary monitor will be workspace 1 and the secondary will be workspace 2. Workspaces are created and destroyed as needed, that is they're existing only when windows are attached. One problem I had with Awesome is that sometimes pop ups from Chrome on one monitor would end up on another. I also had trouble switching focus between dual monitors. As a result, I would need to use my mouse. i3 multi-monitor support is more seamless compared to Awesome.