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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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