XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.
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I prefer the way XMonad handles multimonitor workspaces, but left for Sway due to wayland support.
need to give it a try. I'm stuck in the past times lol
Same here, but I'm about ready to accept Wayland... Seems like sway is the best option?
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.
i3 and sway
i3 all the way
Sorry to be the boring i3 user but it's a rock solid TWM. Plus I am using the autotiling mod and now it's even better :D
This is the way.
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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.
Currently using sway, but mostly for the lack of good Auto tilers on Wayland
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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.
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.
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i3 until the day I die
Can you list some QoL mods for i3? I have been using autotiling for the last few months and it's great.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
I usually use tiling add-ons for Gnome or KDE. So pop-shell or bismuth.
Sway, but single window capture and the animations make hyprland very tempting...
I started with for a bit awm, however i am giving qtile a try since im learning how to code python so good practice.
Sway, but used everything from ratpoison back in the day, awesomewm, i3, hyprland, openbox with manual tiling to Plasma. Just keep coming back to sway, seems like the best for for me.
EXWM. I am a longtime Emacs user so merging the concepts of Emacs buffers and X windows is a huge benefit. Only one set of keybindings to worry about, all of my Emacs window management stuff works for X windows too. One less external dependency to worry about too. In a new environment (like when starting a new job etc) as long as I have my Emacs config I am good to go.
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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.
DWM
LeftWM, because it's a really nice community to get involved with, and i like rust so i contributed a bit to the project
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
Does this support independent workspaces on each monitor? That's what kept me from using i3 on Plasma :(
i3 is the one I keep coming back to
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.
I tried i3 back in 2019 and I've been using it ever since on my desktop.
i3wm, tho I do wanna move to wayland.
I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice
Recently I have been using river. It's extremely easy to configure via a shell script, and it's very fast and stable. It's another dwm clone
It's not exactly a dwm clone, it's way better than that. It takes all the best parts from dwm and bspwm, and I've been loving it so far
The binary split tree is bspwm's best and most important feature imo. I'm sad river doesn't follow that model.
River defers Layout management to an external program (rivertile). If you want a layout based on a binary split tree, you can write your own so-called layout generator
I use sway because when I came back after a long break, it seemed to be the one to go with. I kind of miss awesome, though.
PaperVM. Works under gnome and has everything i need
@cyclohexane for me it was and always will be bspwm. Once I had it configured it was the coziest of cozies.
I used suckless ecosystem for 5+ years, but I wanted to use Wayland so now I'm transitioning into Sway and holymoly how fast and easy it is. So simple to configure and written in C.
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I've been using dwm for a while now, I have a custom arch PKGBUILD to patch it the way I need and I'm generally satisfied with it.
the big downside is that you do need basic knowledge of C to actually configure it and quite a willingness to play around when applying patches, if you go the dwm route make sure that you're applying your patches via some script so you can easily take patches out or reorder them without having to rebuild everything from scratch, there's also a version that you can enable/disable patches and rebuild; but I haven't tried that yet.
DWM due to it's suckless nature
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