Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11? by fr0sty on Friday October 01, 2010 @05:49PM (#1748909)

I use sawfish. It is very lightweight, configurable, supports plenty of keyboard shortcuts and generally stays out of my way.

I have keyboard shortcuts for most simple operations (change workspace, change window, send to back, etc.) and use the mouse when that sort of thing makes sense. I try to stick to 'one task-type per workspace' which helps keep things somewhat organized (plus it keeps my browser in hiding while I'm trying to code).

Link: http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11? by aidenn0 on Friday October 01, 2010 @07:51PM (#1749224)

I use this as well. I have a bunch of self-written mods that I really should push out somewhere.

I started using it when it was the default WM for gnome, and had so many customizations that I couldn't switch away when metacity came out.

Things like windows7-ish tiling (I had it before windows 7, when someone using another WM could do it).

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