30 Window Managers in 30 Days

Re:30 Window Managers in 30 Days by Shish2k on Sunday October 20, 2013 @05:18PM (#6581535)

After thinking about WMs for a while, I ended up realising that basically what I want is Eclipse ( http://shimmie.shishnet.org/v2/post/view/3171 ) -- specifically, a tiled WM with arbitrary nesting of "vertical split", "horizontal split" and "tabbed" containers, and mouse support for re-arranging the windows. i3 comes so very, very close; but no mouse support :( (I know keyboards are better for most things, but they aren't better for all things; I'd like to be able to use both as appropriate)

Come to think of it, tmux uses that model too, with quite a lot of popularity, so it's not like it's a completely unknown style...

Anyone know of any X WMs that do it though? Bonus points for having independent desktops for each monitor, and also for keeping up with modern standards (compositing, that dbus-based systray protocol that I forget the name of, etc)

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Re:30 Window Managers in 30 Days by replax on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:09PM (#6581968)

Hi! i think awesome wm, yes that's the name (and it also is awesome) comes close to your needs. actually, i can't believe that they did not test it. it's really popular in arch linux circles. :)

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Re:30 Window Managers in 30 Days by 2ManyDogs on Sunday October 20, 2013 @07:57PM (#6582164)

I did mention awesome, but it's so configurable I couldn't do it justice in a day (plus I don't really like it, partly because it's so configurable -- I prefer minimal WMs that stay out of my way).

On-topic, wmfs2 also has mouse-moveable splits and tabbed containers, and herbstluftwm has both manual tiling and automatic tiling modes. There are many WMs out there that might meet your requirements -- try a few!

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