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i3 is indeed the best of the bunch as far as tiling WMs go on Linux (IMO of course, some prefer Awesome, X Monad, etc.). As far as setup goes i3 is an absolute

i3 is indeed the best of the bunch as far as tiling WMs go on Linux (IMO of course, some prefer Awesome, X Monad, etc.). As far as setup goes i3 is an absolute cake walk (relative to Awesome et al where you have to script your way to Nirvana), just edit provided config to your liking (yes, if you want conky piped into i3 status bar you have to do a little homework, but otherwise ridiculously straight forward). If you prefer a full blown DE you can actually wrap a tiling WM over the DE (i.e. they can work together) so the answer to the OP is an emphatic yes, any Linux can do the trick.

jon-wood 12y ago
Does i3 support each monitor showing an independent workspace like XMonad does? I can't say I'm the world's biggest fan of XMonad, which tends to be a pain to configure, but I just can't live without being able to have each monitor acting as independent entity any more!
- virtualwhys 12y ago
  > Does i3 support each monitor showing an independent workspace like XMonad does? How do you mean? That sounds like basic TWM functionality. I know with something like Compiz when you switch to a workspace all of your monitors switch at the same time, which is kind of pointless. i3 gives you 95% of what you could do yourself with Awesome, Xmonad et al, just without having to do much of anything beyond edit a config and choose which apps you'd like bound to which workspaces, which ones should go to the scratchpad (e.g. Skype, VLC, etc.), which ones should be floatable and so on. The ability to tab tiles is probably the killer feature of i3, if you do sysadmin work being able to break a set of 20 terminals into a quadrant of 5 tabbed terminals each all on a single screen is pretty much a dream ;-) Furthermore you can tile vertically and horizontally within any given region, it's turtles all the way down...

jon-wood 12y ago

Does i3 support each monitor showing an independent workspace like XMonad does? I can't say I'm the world's biggest fan of XMonad, which tends to be a pain to configure, but I just can't live without being able to have each monitor acting as independent entity any more!

virtualwhys 12y ago
> Does i3 support each monitor showing an independent workspace like XMonad does? How do you mean? That sounds like basic TWM functionality. I know with something like Compiz when you switch to a workspace all of your monitors switch at the same time, which is kind of pointless. i3 gives you 95% of what you could do yourself with Awesome, Xmonad et al, just without having to do much of anything beyond edit a config and choose which apps you'd like bound to which workspaces, which ones should go to the scratchpad (e.g. Skype, VLC, etc.), which ones should be floatable and so on. The ability to tab tiles is probably the killer feature of i3, if you do sysadmin work being able to break a set of 20 terminals into a quadrant of 5 tabbed terminals each all on a single screen is pretty much a dream ;-) Furthermore you can tile vertically and horizontally within any given region, it's turtles all the way down...