feel free to list other window managers you’ve used.

I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.

I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.

  • ScottE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    i3 is what I’ve been using the past few years. I’ve tried others, but I always end back up with i3 as I’ve found nothing else to be as simple and efficient for my workflow, with 12 workspaces across 2 monitors.

  • kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.

    • whoopingsneeze@fedia.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      I haven’t used XMonad in a long time, but it was my go-to for a few years. It was solid. The main issue is that you configure it in Haskell, and I don’t know Haskell.

      • visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have any problem with hyprland on Nvidia, I didn’t have to tweak anything, it worked out of the box, I just installed it on Archcraft.

      • snamellit@fedia.io
        1·
        1 year ago

        Works fine here. I migrated from Sway to Hyprland and it just worked. For Sway I had to work around some frustrating niggles but nothing so far for Hyprland. I use a MSI laptop with a 2070Maxq hybrid graphics setup. The performance of Wolfenstein New Order shows the nvidia is working ;-)

  • NateSwift@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice

  • Borgzilla@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if this counts as a tiling window manager, but I spend most of my time in emacs in full screen mode. I can create, delete, resize, and swap my windows.

    • a_statistician@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure my solution counts either - I just use quicktile with default KDE, because it has the tiling bits that I need and the config file was simple enough that I didn’t have to spend a whole day setting it up. I need working memory for other things besides keyboard shortcuts.

  • fabhian_arkantos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Today I use Plasma, but if I need a tiling wm I use awesome. It’s so great and customizable. If you’re fine with Lua, is easy to config.

  • pyska@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    i3 gang rise up!

    I’ve only tried i3 and it just works, so I stuck with it. After learning the hotkeys it never seems to get in the way (at least for my usage). Riced it a bit. Then some polybar sparkled in there. A wallpaper. What more can a guy want?

  • linkert@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sway with autotiling and a few nifty scripts (launch or focus and such) and Waybar. The combination of having scratchpads, sensible autotiling along with titlebars and the wonderful world of wayland is supreme.

  • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Starting with i3 as my first, i tried a bunch of different ones. Xmonad and Qtile were the ones i liked the most but Qtile was buggy and Xmonad while working was super confusing to configure with haskell.

    Also tried AwesomeWM, it felt a bit buggy to me in terms of window handling and DWM was just too complicated to patch and even with patches it was too basic

    Ended up going back to i3, and then moved over to Sway.

  • Word of Mouth@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS… I love how it combines tiling and stacking. Sure I could use workspaces instead of stacks, but with stacks… I can use both!

    I’ve also used EXWM and am going to give it another whirl after I upgrade to emacs 28 with native comp

    • ollien@fedia.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      Does this support independent workspaces on each monitor? That’s what kept me from using i3 on Plasma :(

  • PapaTorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I really like dwm. It doesn’t seem too popular so maybe the other ones are better but it was the first one I tried so the others feel weird to me. I like the idea behind suckless in general though.

  • tatzelkatz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve probed a few tiling wms: dwm: never ending tinkering, a lot of frustration and despair with incombatible patches. i3: manual tiling is not for me. spectrewm: nice, but too less features. xmonad: nice, but Haskell. Awesome: at first it was not my favourite, but it comes with most of the features I need. Missing features can be added in a short time (awesome is build from C and Lua, awesome’s plugins are pretty simple lua scripts). Awesome is full operable via the mouse or the keyboard - awesome is able to act as a stacking window manager; a very handy feature, when coming from a stacking window manager (I’ve used icewm for twenty years). Summary: a very good tool to form a work environment that is adapted to your personal workflow.