Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
by may on Friday October 01, 2010 @07:06PM
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I was surprised to find that no one else has recommended dwm[1], which is what Xmonad (and others) are based on[2].
It's tiling, keyboard-driven, small and lightweight. I've been using it for years now. It's a little hairy to start with, but I love it.
Instead of workspaces it uses "tags" which you can treat just like workspaces, but you can also combine, on-the-fly, to form a mashup of different tasks. For example, sometimes I want my editor & web browser next to each other, when I'm looking something up, but most of the time I just want to focus on the code.
It's tiling, keyboard-driven, small and lightweight. I've been using it for years now. It's a little hairy to start with, but I love it.
Instead of workspaces it uses "tags" which you can treat just like workspaces, but you can also combine, on-the-fly, to form a mashup of different tasks. For example, sometimes I want my editor & web browser next to each other, when I'm looking something up, but most of the time I just want to focus on the code.
[1]: http://dwm.suckless.org/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwm