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.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Same here, but I’m about ready to accept Wayland… Seems like sway is the best option?

  • 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 :(

  • Borgzilla@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    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
      1·
      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.

  • PapaTorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    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.

  • 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.

      • 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
    2·
    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

  • proycon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m on Hyprland (wayland compositer, wl-roots based). Prior to the wayland transition I was on dwm. Hyprland offers a dynamic tiling layout just like dwm, which was my main selling point. The dev is very active and hyprland is gaining maturity rapidly (more than alternatives like dwl or river did at the time I checked it out). I also tried i3 and sway, but they don’t quite cut it for me as they don’t do dynamic tiling out of the box.

    • nobloat@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wish Hyprland gets into the Fedora repos. I don’t wanna have to deal with building stuff.

  • ForynGilnith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    My heart still belongs to enlightenment/e17 but I’ve been using i3 for the past few years, and then hyprland for the last 4 months or so. It’s working out well.

    • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Man e16 was the shit. If it played nice with hot-plugging monitors, I’d still use it today. It had some awesome themes, too.

      What’s e17 like? I’ve truthfully never used it, though I daily Terminology as a terminal emulator.

      • ForynGilnith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ahhh, e17 - I’ve got memories of building it from either cvs or svn at the time as soon as it was announced by rasterman on Slashdot.

        e17 was my daily driver for a long time. It looked very pretty, before compositing was even a thing on the desktop, all without sacrificing performance. The biggest downside was that it wrote its configs as binary blobs which frequently broke as new development releases came out.