Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
by adambyrtek on Friday October 01, 2010 @06:15PM
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Why do you float Chrome windows? Web browsers and terminals are the easiest applications to tile.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
by mquander on Friday October 01, 2010 @06:17PM
(#1748986)
Honestly, there's no good reason at all. I'm just so used to resizing my web browser with the mouse all the time to read things better. I should probably break that habit.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
by _delirium on Friday October 01, 2010 @08:22PM
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I do occasionally get weirdness with tiling Chrome (though I still do it), when websites try to resize their windows and my window manager won't let it. Some crazy websites depend on multiple sized/moved windows as well, e.g. this thing won't work unless I float the browser: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
by SiFTW on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:31AM
(#1779814)
I use awesome, it's ... awesome. Try and get away from any floating windows at all, when it's set up correctly there's no need. Also get away from the mouse if you can, mouse free working with Awesome WM is where it shines.
shameless plug If anyone's interested in a guide to getting Awesome WM installed and set up with Ubuntu I made one here. http://8bit.co/?p=39
I usually have a workspace for shell & filesystem stuff, one for emacs, one for documentation, one for running servers and monitors and other misc. utils for whatever I'm doing, and one floating one for web browser and music.