Re:Gnome Shell and Unity
by keithpeter on Friday April 06, 2012 @07:16AM
(#3806689)
I used dwm/dmenu with an appropriate .desktop file to set up a session, and a simple script to autostart a few applications (network-manager, feh) as my desktop environment for some time. See
Windows can be tiled, full screen ('monacle') or floating in dwm. You can alter the config file to associate a window type with an application, e.g. GIMP will always be floating.
You have a screen divided into a main pane on the left. I set mine to occupy about 65% of the width of a 1920by1080 screen. The right hand area is a 'stack' of other windows which appear as you invoke applications using dmenu (click super, type program name).
You can switch between the active window with the mouse (focus follows pointer) or using keyboard shortcuts (vi related in the stock version). You can also swap windows on the 'stack' in the right hand side into the main tile, so the window that was in the main tile goes onto the stack. You can also 'cycle' the windows through the tiles like a yank buffer.
The best bit was tags. Basically you have 9 workspaces, but it is possible to bring the windows in workspace 7 (say) into the stack in workspace 1.
The main problem I had was the issue of popup windows for tiled applications. Sometimes they were recognised and became floating windows, sometimes they opened in the main pane with the result that the main application window became the first on the stack, which was distracting.
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Windows can be tiled, full screen ('monacle') or floating in dwm. You can alter the config file to associate a window type with an application, e.g. GIMP will always be floating.
You have a screen divided into a main pane on the left. I set mine to occupy about 65% of the width of a 1920by1080 screen. The right hand area is a 'stack' of other windows which appear as you invoke applications using dmenu (click super, type program name).
You can switch between the active window with the mouse (focus follows pointer) or using keyboard shortcuts (vi related in the stock version). You can also swap windows on the 'stack' in the right hand side into the main tile, so the window that was in the main tile goes onto the stack. You can also 'cycle' the windows through the tiles like a yank buffer.
The best bit was tags. Basically you have 9 workspaces, but it is possible to bring the windows in workspace 7 (say) into the stack in workspace 1.
The main problem I had was the issue of popup windows for tiled applications. Sometimes they were recognised and became floating windows, sometimes they opened in the main pane with the result that the main application window became the first on the stack, which was distracting.