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.

  • @PMunch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I use i3, but to say that I like it is a bit overstated. It’s fine, does what I expect the very basic of a tiling window manager to do. I used Nimdow for a while and it’s pretty good, the default bar is way better than i3 (supports ANSI colour coding, mouse presses, etc.), but I could never quite get to grips with the tiling algorithm.

    I’m working on my own WM though, it’s not tiling per-se, I choose to call in non-overlapping and I’m trying to solve my gripes with i3. Basically windows should not be forcefully expanded if they don’t want to. Try open galculator under i3 and watch the horror. And when expanded the size should be split based on their initial sizes. So if I have Firefox open and want to do something in a quick terminal window the terminal won’t get 1/2 of the screen. Firefox wanted more space than the terminal initially, so the terminal gets to take up a smaller share of the space.

  • @Prologue7642@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Currently, I am using DWL and it is pretty nice. After moving to Wayland, I tried to use Sway for a while, but it does not really fit into my workflow well. But to be honest, even DWL is missing some things I want, and I am not really a fan of that it is written and configured in C. I am planning on trying to write my own tiling window manager in Rust when I have some time.

      • visnudevaEnglish
        1•2 years 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.

  • @linkert@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Sway with autotiling and a few nifty scripts (launch or focus and such) and Waybar. The combination of having scratchpads, sensible autotiling along with titlebars and the wonderful world of wayland is supreme.

  • @tomterl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    herbstluftwm - because it just works and does not try to think for me;

    The configuration is a shell script using herbstclient to talk to the wm process, that’s a plus for me, too.

  • @kuresov@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I like i3, at some point when I finally move to Wayland I’ll move to Sway. Going to try Hyprland as well though, 'cause why not

  • HatchEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    I started with for a bit awm, however i am giving qtile a try since im learning how to code python so good practice.

  • @kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    XMonad. Been using it for almost a decade, and very powerful. I3 I hear is also good.

  • @pyska@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    i3 gang rise up!

    I’ve only tried i3 and it just works, so I stuck with it. After learning the hotkeys it never seems to get in the way (at least for my usage). Riced it a bit. Then some polybar sparkled in there. A wallpaper. What more can a guy want?

  • @NateSwift@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I’ve been using i3. Nothing super advanced but the config is easy and being able to reload in place is nice

  • @Borgzilla@lemmy.caEnglish
    0•2 years 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.

  • @fabhian_arkantos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    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.