My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)

Re:My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) by hn1337 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:51AM (#31985907)

That's a common argument which is essentially, "I grew up and needed to be productive so that's why I don't use tiling window managers."

It's ironic and silly because I use a tiling window manager to _be_ productive. I have used the same settings, window manager and configuration since 2006. That is exactly why I love it, it's stable as can be and I can rely on it forever (at least until X11 doesn't work anymore, but I will probably be dead by then).

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Re:My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) by forgotpwd16 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:33AM (#31986167)

Which window manager? I think only ratpoison, larswm, and Ion existed back then? As for X11, recently changes were added to Xwayland's rootfull mode to allow running a full X environment on Wayland.

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Re:My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) by scbrg on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:56AM (#31987639)

Both dwm and wmii existed in 2006.

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Re:My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) by hn1337 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:09AM (#31988372)

I use dwm, in particular a Debian netinstall with no desktop environment. Simply install X and dwm. I have my own fork of dwm with my customizations on a separate branch.

I can update dwm by pulling master and rebasing my branch on master. Has worked since 2006. With that being said, dwm hasn't changed much since 2006.

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Re:My quest for the perfect window manager (2004) by Fnoord on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @11:19AM (#31989246)

There's configs which make Sway behave (more) like dwm. Sway is config-compatible with i3, so that makes it a good successor as a tiling window manager.

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