God-tier window managers. I'll start.

>>56203152
xfce

>>56203152
Why not just use tmux?

>>56203152
What is this?

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doesn't display properly for me

>>56203454
Seems like a font issue (not using the right font)

>>56203348
>twin.png
>Twin Term
Gee, I dunno

>>56203519
why would you post if you don't know, quit being an asshole for fucks sake

>>56203532
Hue.

>>56203454
Nice codepage.

>>56203555
what does it expect? i'm running it in xfce4-terminal over ssh

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>>56203568
does the same on a local copy as well
its X frontend works, but what use is that

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>>56203601
>run "htop" in the twin term anyway
>segfaults
good wm

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>>56203152
Quartz

i3. Godly customisation, ultra lightweight.

>>56203532
Wait, am the asshole because I don't know what this thread is about? Or is he the asshole for being an asshole to me?

>>56203694
Whats the differences between i3, awesome, and xmonad?

>>56203968
xmonad is a bitch to configure you literally have to recompile it to change the config, i3 is easy however

Havent used awesome so can't say there

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awesome wm

>>56203968
idiot-proof
lua
Haskell

That's it. People who know the language of the config will prefer that one over the others. If you don't know any you use i3.

>>56203985
I think all three work that way.

>>56204247
What? i3 is a simple config file you edit, awesomewm is just lua scripts that lets you change everything about it. xmonad is you edit the C source and recompile to make changes.

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>>56203152
Display PostScript/NeXTSTEP WM
>>56203644
this too. It's literally perfect.

>>56204398
>xmonad is you edit the C source
Haskell source.

>>56204522
Derp, got it confused with dwm. But same shit applies to that.

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>>56203941

>>56203941
he was being sarcastic, the wm is called "twin", which >>56203519 obvious by the multiple mentions of its name
your response (>>56203532) doesn't seem sincere because of this, like you're causing trouble just for the sake of it

>>56204762
>which >>56203519 considered* obvious by the multiple mentions of its name

>>56204627
>visible dust clouds flying off

Gee how much is being grinded off that cow anyway?

Unity/Compiz best ever

cwm and spectrwm

thanks OP, this is neat

>>56205224
also doesn't really count as a pure wm, as it's also a windowing system, but rio from plan 9 is really cool

i like the idea of programs taking over terminal windows

>>56204457
Why did icons look awesome back then, and now we're seemingly stuck with some single-color, simplistic-shape bullshit which can be thrown together in no time in a vector graphics program by anyone even remotely proficient at it? When will the fucking "flat design" abomination die?

>>56204204
>love lua
>love lisps
>comfortable with C (wouldn't say I like it but I'd use it)
>learning haskell
>use i3 anyway
not really sure why desu. I liked running evilwm when my school computers had that available for a few years though

>>56205294
did you check out stumpwm?

>>56205306
yeah, that's what I was referring to with the loving lisps line. I'll probably give most of them another shot once I've got my desktop set up on linux and have a nicer screen than my laptop.

Sawfish

It's like openbox for people with good taste in everything

>>56205279
>then
icons made by programmers
>now
icons made by art students

>>56204204
Any differences when it comes to multi monitor setups?

>>56205727
huh?

what do you mean by this? are you talking about how it's using really ugly GTK themes by default?

>>56205843
you can always just set borderwidth to 0 or change the border colors

don't know about actually making firefox look more minimal

>>56205855
Firefox is a total lost cause.

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>>56205843
You can edit the "chrome" of the browser but I'd recommend using an addon like Stylish so you can do it more easily.
I'd also recommend classic theme restorer. Pic related is my ugly but at least not aurora-style firefox just using ctr. too lazy to get things looking a little nicer since that'd mean writing css.

>>56205898
oh shit I didn't realize until looking now that my menubar gets cut off like that when the browser is thinner than ~960 pixels. oh well.

>>56203152

This picture gives me epilepsy and it's not even animated.

2bwm
• two/three borders (depending in which branch)
• optional entirely keyboard-only usage

ratpoison

>>56205898
good wallpaper

>>56204808
It's not a cow grinder. It's a cow polisher.

>>56204808
>>56206057
Yes the cow grinders look much more, umm meatier.

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>>56205898
Classic theme restorer is all you need really.

Here's how mine looks.

It's >windows but should look the same on any linux

Minimal enough?

>>56206128
pretty good. I just still have that irrational dislike for tabs on top after all these years. Also the search bar is wasted space imo but there's not much else to put there anyways.

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>>56206152
There's options for that too

>>56206215
kinda curious, does the File Edit... thing get cut off as you shrink the window like it does for me?

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>>56206230
Nope, it eats the address bar instead

You can make the menu come out of a button instead if space for them is a concern

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>>56206253
>You can make the menu come out of a button instead if space for them is a concern
And here's what that looks like

>>56206278
>>56206253
>>56206230
There's also the old way where the menubar is off normally and just pressing Alt makes the menu bar show up on its own row. I prefer that way.

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Window Maker and I'm not even memeing. Check out wmlive if you haven't used it yet.

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>>56203338
this

>>56203968
xmonad is the masterrace

>>56206418
But y?

>>56205224
>spectrwm
what does this do that, for example, bspwm doesnt?

>>56206433
its like dwm but less retarded

that's pretty much it

>>56206440
>>56206418
None of these answers are at all specific, descriptive, or helpful. Kill yourselves.

>>56206459
>no fun allowed

dwm

>2016
>seriously recommending shit based on X.org cancer

>>56203644
yes

>>56207052
>not giving any suggestions for wayland,
Thanks for your contribution to the thread

>>56205333
>implying programmers know shit about design
The answers is that designers were competent before.
Now they're pajeets

>>56206426
It's probably the only WM whose core was formally verified in Coq.

But in practical terms, it's bulletproof and extremely configurable, but it's better to know some Haskell so you can enjoy it at full.

>>56207067
sway.
i3 reimplemented on wayland.

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>>56203152
xmonad

>>56207067
Orbment, another tiling wm.
Weston can be configured with some little patience to be a more or less functional Openbox replacement.
In fact I'm thinking in start a Openbox reimplementation on Wayland, correcting some tardness on it (fucking xml as config? what the fuck)

>>56207381
I'm curious, do you really use your desktop like that? I just tend to have 10 different desktops, but I have two small screens, instead of a big one...

>>56207429
Not sure what exactly you're referring to, but yes, I tend to use my desktop exactly like the picture of my desktop currently in use

I use workspaces too, you can see them at the top.

>>56207369
I'd use sway but it doesn't implement rotating screens yet, so I'm stuck on i3.
Which terminal do you recommend (and don't tell me you're using xwayland, fagtron).

>>56204197
I use awesome wm on my laptop and I love it. It's just stupid to set up at first.

>>56205363
I can't speak for the others but i3 works well for 2 monitors at least.

>>56204197
Battle network is top tier

>>56203644
holy fuck what is wrong with that dpi

>>56208547
What do you mean?

>>56207052
>shilling wayland shit
kys

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I really like openbox and its XML configs.

>>56204197
The title of your window decoration looks off-center.
Also, congrats on the 1366x768.

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2bwm.

>autists with terminal fuckery all over the place on this board
>get first job
>everyone doing actual work just uses unity, xfce or fucking windows
gee really makes ya think

>>56210249
What a mess. You might as well use i3

>>56204197
looks like an early build of Chicago, but now with eye cancer

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>>56210329
my resolution wasn't my choice REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

also update

>>56210956
I use Emacs for tiling, and it's enough for me. I'd have to set up another modifier on my keyboard to use sensible keybindings for a tiling wm. Putting 2 windows side by side is as much tiling as I need from my window manager.

personally speaking, bspwm.
The easiest & most hackable tiling WM I've ever seen.

>>56204627
>dont stick your hand in a lathe
Ive been on 4chan too long. I expected that gif to end very differently.

>>56212395
I use xmonad in BSP mode, which is probably even more hackable than bsp (your config file is literally the window manager itself - you program your behavior)

>>56212501
I agree on principal, and I have a few mates who use xmoand at work, but my Haskell skills (& FP in general) are utter trash so I've went the bspwm way (after fucking around with dwm, i3 & awesome).
Cheers for using BSP mode!

>>56203338
Because tiling is extremely useful for non-terminal windows as well.

>>56207381
What's the font, anon? Is it a pixel font?

>>56212711
terminus and duh

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>>56203152
Openbox.

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twm is still the best WM.

>>56214651
twm and fvwm's configuration files are fucking awful though

>>56214492
>Nautilus
Why would you do this to yourself?

>>56207381
can you share your term colors?

>>56203272
>xfce
Xfce is not a window manager.
Xfce uses xfwm.

>>56216060
https://github.com/haasn/gentoo-conf/blob/nanodesu/home/nand/.Xdefaults#L47

>>56216221
thanks

aqua

You weebs are starting to convince me. Maybe I'll pick up a cheap thinkpad to make into a dedicated retro vaporwave shitpostig machine

>>56203454
>>56203601
>>56203620
Those look like some alien characters, from Independence day 2.

>>56205898
It's i3?
How you get list of open windows on panel?

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I saved this the other day.

How to into this window manager and tiling on windows?

>>56203152
we're waiting OP

>>56217617
christ I want this
how can I get this on my windows machine?

kwin is the best desu senpai.

>>56217600
It's just the title of the current active window. I'm using i3blocks for my status bar http://vivien.github.io/i3blocks/
Here's the lines from my i3blocks.conf for that

[focused window]
command=xprop -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) | grep 'WM_NAME(STRING)\|WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING)' | cut -d'"' -f2
interval=1
color=#A6D1FA

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muffin

>>56204808
>dust cloud
That is the condensed warm breath of the cow in the cold air.

>>56217689
Oh, it's just the not-clickable or usable with keyboard( I mean hyperlink) text title...

>>56217617
I had an AHK script like that, forgot what it was called though

>>56217742
that just seems really annoying and shitty.

>>56217998
I use rofi https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/ for interactive window switcher.

>>56205333
More like
>then
icons made by professional designers
>now
Made by some furry with a a thing for 8-bit art

>>56203152
When I zoom in on this picture with my phone, dots in the background change. Why is this?

>>56204457
How cna you say NeXTSTEP is attractive? It was so shit-tier that it failed, and Steve Jobs can't stand to fail so he literally reskinned it for OSX.

>not just using compiz with wobbly windows for everything
ISHYGDDT

I use Ratpoison, but I know is not for everyone ;_;

>>56214492
what terminal fonts are those?i

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>>56219659

>>56219659
Gohufont

>>56218627
I'm not saying the DE is attractive, I'm saying that the WM is great. Plus Windows 95 copied most of these elements for a reason.

a question for the anons who use awesome. I have zero experience messing with config files, is awesome a good WM for a beginner? If not, then what would you recommend for someone who wants to learn ricing?

>>56220770
I3wm, its where I learned, only has one config file and is the easiest to understand in my opinion.

>>56220770
Can 2nd this. i3wm is pretty great. I've used awesome, dmw, ratpoison, and i3. I'd say i3 is my favorite.

>>56203152
this looks like turbo C

>>56220794
>>56220918
will check out i3wm. thanks bros

>>56214888
I'm lazy and it worked, what would you recommend instead?

>>56221059
whoops, the second one was supposed to be dwm.

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>>56203152
dtwm 4 life

>>56205224
>only one post for cwm
my NIGGER cwm is the best, program launcher, window searcher, and right click menu all built in, with floating key preconfigured. Its lit.

Yall niggers sleeping on herbsluftwm, shits perfect

>>56203694
I loved i3 until I ran top while i3 was on.
i3bar uses 33% cpu to… refresh iteself every two seconds
I no longer trust i3; they must have put a fucking spinlock in to check if the two seconds was up

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God teaches us that their can only be one God-tier window manager, and it resides within His holy temple.

5. 1 Kings 8:60 — That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.

>>56221519
something sounds very wrong there. I've got mine updating every second for the clock display and it peaks out at less than a percent cpu

>>56221519
Switch to awesome, you can update your widgets individually on separate timers.

honestly

what's the point besides 'looks cool' to any of this

>>56221639
For me being able to script my window manager to do or display whatever I want is more convenient then relying on whatever functionality gnome or canonical feel I should have.

>>56221519
use i3blocks

>>56221639
looks can be a decent reason to go with an interface, you have to stare at for hours after all, and why wouldn't you want something that looks as good as it works for you?

plus, every wm has different ways of doing different things in one way or another, some people like it, some people don't, nobody's trying to force you to change, we're just posting about things that make us enthusiastic on a (technically) enthusiast community

>>56221711
nah it looks important, i guess. maybe i'm a normie but i don't think anything i do justifies modding my pc to look/act(?) like this i guess

is it something i'd understand if i 'needed' it per se?

>>56221755
You end up using more muscle memory with a tiling wm and after a while you don't want to use anything else because it feels clunky.

>>56221755
yeah it's not really a necessity, any platform/WM/whatever nowadays will get work done, shit like ricing and using new WMs just makes it more exciting or convenient in some way, >>56221787 is a pretty valid point about tilers though I'm still not into them

maybe it's not your thing now, maybe some day you'll get bored and play with it, exploring new ways of doing old shit can make some things less of a chore than they'd be otherwise

>>56221787
>>56221876

thanks for the responses and being cool about it

maybe some day. for now the stock windows experience is ok

>>56205333
>Sawfish
>
>It's like openbox for people with good taste in everything
Looks decent but they need to move their official site off of wikia, because fuck wikia

Do you guys have impaired sight or something? Why the hell would you use those harsh windows managers? It's line looking at high contrast, full brightness shit.

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Can somebody recommend a tiling script for compiz? Also willing to switch to kwin.

I like the features all of them offer me, but sometimes I want to tile when I'm doing something.

Ive used i3 before, just not a fan of it except when working.

>>56221639
Having preset workspaces for accomplishing different tasks is very handy

You can just pull it up and there it is, every program arranged how you want it

>>56211320
NIce. Icons only need some tweaking and you got a 10/10

>>56221063
thunar

>>56217742
holy fuck you seriously use the mouse for moving windows and changing workspaces?

you faggot go back to windows.