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Low on precious screen real estate, or busy massaging your carpal tunnel
wrists damaged by waving a mouse around like an idiot?
> Freedom from the mouse
With any decent twm, you're hand almost never has to leave the home row.
> High customizability
All well known twms are built with customizability in mind, either through a
config file, command line options, or in the case of dwm, editing the source
code directly.
> Efficient use of screen space
because each new window will split the screen one level further, the available
screen space is used optimally (yes, even when using gaps).
> L I G H T W E I G H T
using a tiling window manager forgoes the need for a bloated DE, simply
install any necessary software on top of the window manager to build exactly
the system you want with no cruft!
> Resources
i3wm - https://i3wm.org/
Babby's first twm, easily customizable from a central config file, has sane
defaults. Usable out of the box.
Xmonad - http://xmonad.org/
Written and configured using haskell, so knowledge of haskell is recommended.
Highly extensible, stable, and dynamic.
dwm - http://dwm.suckless.org/
Dynamic Window Manager written in C.
Slightly higher learning curve than most other twms, basic knowledge of C is
necessary for configuration as it takes place in the header file. Very
lightweight.
awesomewm - https://awesomewm.org/
Supports lots of features out of the box, less initial configuration necessary than some others.
Shares the concept of tags with dwm which can be more flexible than workspaces
ratposion - http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
Ratpoison is a simple Window Manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations.
> Brief introduction/ explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Api6dFMlxAA
> Comparison of various twms
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_tiling_window_managers
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Cool general
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Do any of these tiling window managers play nicely with touch input?
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>>62191207
While it is probably possible to configure in something pretty feature rich like i3 or awesome, i think using touch controls is going to take your hand away from the keyboard even more than the mouse would. Might as well just use a stacking wm made for touch like gnome
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>>62191356
Some day we will have holographic interfaces and everything with be like a tiling window manager, using touch controls. You'll just pull up the keyboard with a certain gesture and type right there
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>>62191376
But muh clicky switches
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I really need to switch away from unity but I'm so lazy, I don't want to dick with configs
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>>62191097
I really dig the colors. I am not fond of the drop shadows and space between windows, but the colors make this somewhat aesthetic.
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>>62191097
Twms are cool I guess. But they solve a problem I don't have. I don't want more than one thing on the screen at a time basically ever. Sometimes on rare occasions I need two things on screen side by side. And Windows-left does that on most systems just fine.
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>Low on precious screen real estate, or busy massaging your carpal tunnel
wrists damaged by waving a mouse around like an idiot?
You know, if you're going to make these threads, no need to pair text like this with that OP image. At least advertise twms for the purposes most people here will use them for - ricing screenshots.
"Are you low on precious screen real estate? Why not waste a ton of space with floating windows, gaps, pipes.sh, and a picture of leaves?"
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>fall for the tiling meme
>every single gtk3 program looks like shit with cut off ui at the top
T-thanks
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>>62191097
>Ratpoison
My nigga
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>>62191356
I want it for a tablet, so there is no mouse or keyboard.
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>>62191097
Does dwm allow me to set specific windows to float on startup and define their size and position?
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>>62191097
how many shekels were you paid to leave out bspwm?
Daily reminder that if your window manager does not have a strong mathematical basis, such as BSP, it is garbage
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>>62191097
Sometimes I feel real good that I can't get carpal tunnel syndrome.
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>>62191097
wallpaper pls
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I recommend StumpWM
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>>62192511
Why?
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>>62191097
Wallpaper!
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>>62192775
I found it to be the easiest twm to setup. It's written in Lisp and has Emacs-like keybindings.
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>>62192853
>Emacs-like keybindings
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