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You may be interested in wmii [1], a tiling WM which is inspired by Plan 9 and uses 9P. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmii

burke 12y ago
I love wmii. It's the primary reason I resent OS X.
- scott_karana 12y ago
  > I love wmii. It's the primary reason I resent OS X. Huh? What's the relationship?
  - __float 12y ago
    Presumably the fact that you're tied into using Apple's window manager. But that's really loose and I don't totally understand why it merited being mentioned either, haha.
  - TheZenPsycho 12y ago
    OSX fundamentally doesn't support robust tiling window managers. they exist only as a pale shadow of the real thing.
    - scott_karana 12y ago
      Isn't that the same case as Windows, BeOS, Android, iOS, PalmOS, etc?... I was wondering why OSX was explicitly called out.
      - _delirium 12y ago
        OSX has a larger userbase of Plan9 fans, I think, including a number who run plan9port on it (Rob Pike has said that he uses such a setup). So the bits that you can't get Plan9-ish might rankle someone. Windows isn't any better, but there aren't many people trying to make Windows feel anything like Plan9 in the first place, so nobody's too disappointed about it.
    - rcarmo 12y ago
      Moom is pretty handy, though.
    - cmiller1 12y ago
      You can run any linux window manager directly on os x... of course you're stuck running only *nix programs then
    - girvo 12y ago
      True, but Amethyst[0] comes pretty close for my personal taste. [0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
  - glhaynes 12y ago
    Presumably it's a sort of sideways/backhanded almost-compliment to OS X: it works well enough comparatively that its plusses overwhelm its negatives for the commenter. But, they still wish it supported more flexibility; and the fact it doesn't (and yet its plusses nevertheless still compare favorably enough to its minuses that the commenter continues to use it) leads to a sort of feeling of dissatisfaction and resentment.
    - burke 12y ago
      Yes, exactly. I mostly love OS X in that it gives me nearly everything I love about Linux with almost none of the hassle. The window management story is terrible though. Wmii really clicked for me, and OS X really pales in comparison on that front.
ThomPete 12y ago
Very interesting thank you!
dbdr 12y ago
Interestingly, i3wm is designed as a successor to wmii and explicitly decided to avoid the Plan 9 aspect. [1] Does someone have examples of cool things you can do in wmii thanks to this? [1] Google Tech Talk about i3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM (this question at 15:30)

burke 12y ago

I love wmii. It's the primary reason I resent OS X.

scott_karana 12y ago
> I love wmii. It's the primary reason I resent OS X. Huh? What's the relationship?
- __float 12y ago
  Presumably the fact that you're tied into using Apple's window manager. But that's really loose and I don't totally understand why it merited being mentioned either, haha.
- TheZenPsycho 12y ago
  OSX fundamentally doesn't support robust tiling window managers. they exist only as a pale shadow of the real thing.
  - scott_karana 12y ago
    Isn't that the same case as Windows, BeOS, Android, iOS, PalmOS, etc?... I was wondering why OSX was explicitly called out.
    - _delirium 12y ago
      OSX has a larger userbase of Plan9 fans, I think, including a number who run plan9port on it (Rob Pike has said that he uses such a setup). So the bits that you can't get Plan9-ish might rankle someone. Windows isn't any better, but there aren't many people trying to make Windows feel anything like Plan9 in the first place, so nobody's too disappointed about it.
  - rcarmo 12y ago
    Moom is pretty handy, though.
  - cmiller1 12y ago
    You can run any linux window manager directly on os x... of course you're stuck running only *nix programs then
  - girvo 12y ago
    True, but Amethyst[0] comes pretty close for my personal taste. [0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- glhaynes 12y ago
  Presumably it's a sort of sideways/backhanded almost-compliment to OS X: it works well enough comparatively that its plusses overwhelm its negatives for the commenter. But, they still wish it supported more flexibility; and the fact it doesn't (and yet its plusses nevertheless still compare favorably enough to its minuses that the commenter continues to use it) leads to a sort of feeling of dissatisfaction and resentment.
  - burke 12y ago
    Yes, exactly. I mostly love OS X in that it gives me nearly everything I love about Linux with almost none of the hassle. The window management story is terrible though. Wmii really clicked for me, and OS X really pales in comparison on that front.

ThomPete 12y ago

Very interesting thank you!

dbdr 12y ago

Interestingly, i3wm is designed as a successor to wmii and explicitly decided to avoid the Plan 9 aspect. [1] Does someone have examples of cool things you can do in wmii thanks to this? [1] Google Tech Talk about i3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2CTb1hM (this question at 15:30)