tiling window managers

>>54969882
i3, i3blocks and i3lock-fancy
Once you have a decent conf file (and some decent blocklets) you don't need that much.
What do you want to put on the bar that you can't do with those three?

xmonad is nice, but I'm not sure about it requiring 1gb of haskell dependencies

>>54969882
what WM is being used in that pic?

>>54970043
decided you were right, switched back to i3; wanted to try something new tho :p

>>54970501
awesome; just googled for a picture; from that far away a lot of them look like that tho

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>>54970503
it's cool, good thing is you can try most without problems, awesome, bspwm, herbstluftwm, xmonad, etc.
I played with awesome before settling with i3 and was running a modified version of pic related.
If you are interested check awesome-copycats and the awesome pro themes.
I want to try bspwm when I have time to tinker with it.

>>54970585
what WM is in that pic? and bspwm looks cool too

>>54970643
awesome with a theme called pro. As I said in the other post, check that and the copycat configs, they look nice and they are nice to learn how to add or change stuff.

>>54969882
i really like i3-gaps with i3blocks, still working on getting a nice bar going but i don't really care that much about it

it took me all of like an hour to get used to and it's ruined mac OS and windows for me

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>>54970643
currently running this

>>54971825
>transparent terminals
Autism
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>>54969882
i3 with xmobar

I used to love xmonad but I loved to i3 becuase the i3 tree like container / window structure is much more flexible than xmonad defined layouts.

I found i3bar to be unusably bad so I used the xmonad setup I had for xmonad with i3... comfy/10.

>>54970464
I do not miss dealing with the nightmare that is cabal

>>54972480
moved*

>>54969882
xmonad

bretty good since I know haskell
my config is very small, but it werks

>having to manage my own windows and position and size them according to each windows' needs instead of accepting a fucking forced sizing/positioning clusterfuck makes me sick
I don't understand people using this garbage at all.

>>54972516
Lern 2 inglish & grentxt

I can't make heads or tails of what you said. Are you against tiling WM or what?

>>54972571
he's against it
he thinks pressing a quick succession of keycombinations is hard

>>54971825
>>54972389
dude wtf, tranparent looks cool
i hate solid shit, looks dull

>>54972516
dude, it's beyond simple. You set up whatever the fuck shortcut you want to do everything.
I like i3 because it's stupidly easy to use. Want to move a window around click it, want to tile it just swtich it to tiling mode and move it around with modkey + arrows. I found it easy to use because you can do similar stuff (less actually) on windows pressing the winkey.

>>54972694
Sorry that was a bit harsh. It does look cool, I actually wouldn't disagree. And obviously the following is my opinion which you may disagree with of course.

Transparent terminals are somewhat impractical. My terminal is for displaying information, much like a sheet of paper. I wouldn't use paper watermarked with my favourite image. I certainly wouldn't use paper that was slightly transparent since it is unclear when one sheet is on-top of another which writing is on which — even if the transparency is slightly frosty. I use my terminal for working and I don't want it to be distracting... I just want it to be as clear as possible.

I use solid white writing on a black background. I would use black on white (like paper) only it is glaringly bright on a computer screen compared to white on black.

is there any way to open empty containers in i3? would love to be able to resize a few containers without having to open up space taking terminals

>>54972389
100% transparency all day nigga

>>54972794
I understand your concerns.
However, the transparency is set to a level such that your oncerns are negligible.
Having a dark bold font over a light wallpaper should bring forth a good experience.

>>54972812
+1

I've never ventured into tiling WMs, but I'm interested. I'm presently using xfce, can I try something like i3 and switch back if I don't like it? Is it a major PITA to do?

>>54972389
hey fuck you asshole

>>54972794
My transparency only shows the wallpaper, even if there is another window up behind it. I chose my wallpaper and terminal colors so that there's no visual conflict/distraction

>>54972812
I am clearly a dry shite because my desktop background is just plain black and my terminals are just plain black so it is in some way already like what you describe just black instead of white.

I'm curious, when you have a terminal full of text under another terminal full of text, what does it look like? I am hoping for a screenshot of you have one.

>>54972863
hmm, that dilemma I can't have since I using a tiling window manager.

>>54972826
If I recall xfce, you can. Just install your wm, log off, and log back on but selecting the wm you want to use on the login screen.

>>54972833
How can you set only the wallpaper? What application are you using? Or is it i3?

>>54972863
Not him but as I said above your post, it only shows the wallpaper as the terminal background, not the windows behind the terminal for me

>>54972961
I'm using i3, I didn't "set only the wallpaper", that's just what happens when I turn up the transparency. I think you need a compositor to show the windows behind, but I don't want that

>>54972885
Ha that is a reasonable point!

>>54973038
you can still do floating windows in i3 so it is a thing

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bspwm is the only wm

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>>54973072
The only thing Linux does better is fonts, and you managed to fuck even that up.

Good job.

>>54973103
Go ahead then, do tell how to better the fonts. And don't come with infinality.

>tfw run i3 with default config
>tfw try to make anything pretty and shit breaks

>>54973139
Wtf? i3 is super easy to config

>>54973146
idk i guess the default config makes me look mature

None of this shit works on Wayland right? Besides sway or something?

>>54971825
wasted space

xfce default here
what's the strange taskbar-ish thing that is seen with these tiling window managers?

>>54973270
it shows what workspaces you have open and other info

>>54973056
I know I use i3. I've always thought of this as a reason as to why I would never bother with transparent terminals — apparently it is a non-issue though.

i3wm is best: stable, configurable, all-around perfect. I just stream conky to i3bar in-place of dogshit i3status for all the sysinfo I could want.

>>54969882
>what do you nerds use?
xmonad, because it's highly flexible and programmable in Haskell

>>54969882
far left:
>rtorrent, weechat, ncmpcpp

bottom left:
>firefox+pentadactyl
>another firefox+pentadactyl window
>image viewer, probably sxiv or feh

bottom right:
>terms with vim in them
>not sure what the bottom right is, some sort of file commander? or perhaps another ncmpcpp

top left / top right:
>weechat windows

I love how you can tell what every single program is by a blurry terminal screenshot

>>54974024
oops, forgot the far right:

>mail client, looks like mutt

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>>54974006
how big is ur config?
mine is literally 54 lines
pic related

>>54969882
tmux

>>54974131
https://github.com/haasn/gentoo-conf/blob/nanodesu/home/nand/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

It's not exactly the prettiest thing since I wrote it over the years and most of it was when I was only beginning to learn Haskell

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I like i3-gaps.

>>54972571
lrn2 lrn2

>>54974494
>Using a tiling setup
>Puts in gaps
Literally wasting space for looks, kys.

>>54974778
>implying I need 100% screen space for shitposting, listening to music and irc
I look at it alot, so I want it to look good.

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Anyone here have a good i3blocks configuration for multiple monitors? Mine looks like trash...

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>>54974494
>tiling wm
>huge ass gaps

I don't get it

>>54975091
It simply looks better. I like the aesthetic of it.

>>54975091
Not him, but Tiling WMs aren't so much about “muh space” as they are user friendliness.

The space is just a hidden upside.

>>54975091
it's for ricefags that need to look at their background

I use openbox, and I have keybindigs set up to put 2 windows on my monitor horizontally. GNU Emacs is my tiling WM, because I need tiling only for text editing.
I could switch to a dynamic WM if it had configs in XML.

>>54975226
>prefering configs in XML
ISHYGDDT

How do I into tiling wm? Getting started looks daunting

>>54975289
easiest?
probably bug.n for windows, run it as an autohotkey script and just spend some time going through the configuration changing stuff to something you like

>>54974131
>>54974174
>>54974006
I used to use xmonad for years. Has a nice config too but I eventually moved to i3 because I couldn't find a layout that suited my needs (and I couldn't create one because Haskell is a mystery to me).

Basically I want something like i3's tree based layout. The BSP layout almost gave me what I wanted but it wasn't quite right. The issue with the BSP layout is that you can't have an arbitrary amount of leafs on your tree rather just two (it is in its name after all). But this is annoying when say you want three equal columns because you have to create a parent with two windows and a second leaf with only one, and then resize them -- the whole thing is a mess. Xmonad would be so comfy if someone made an i3 like layout because Xmonad is much nicer than i3 feature-wise.

>>54975289
It's not that difficult to get something basic going but ricing it into something perfect for your needs does take time.

I'm sure you'll find something about installing say i3 one whatever distro you are using.

>>54969882
OpenBSD + spectrWM for life

>>54977966
>spectrWM
How is it compared to dwm?

>>54971825
share config plz

awesome
https://github.com/copycat-killer/awesome-copycats