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.

  • kunday@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

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

    • whoopingsneeze@fedia.io
      1·
      3 years ago

      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.

    • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 years ago

      Same here, but I’m about ready to accept Wayland… Seems like sway is the best option?

  • ScottE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • fabhian_arkantos@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 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.

  • ForynGilnith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • Smorty@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    i3 just works in my opinion, and I can change stuff how I like it. It’s simple and has loads of users, so guides are easy to come by.

  • roseh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    3 years ago

    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

      • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlOPM
        1·
        3 years ago

        The binary split tree is bspwm’s best and most important feature imo. I’m sad river doesn’t follow that model.

  • Borgzilla@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    3 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.

    • a_statistician@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

      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.

  • PMunch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 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.

      • visnudeva@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        3 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.

      • snamellit@fedia.io
        1·
        3 years ago

        Works fine here. I migrated from Sway to Hyprland and it just worked. For Sway I had to work around some frustrating niggles but nothing so far for Hyprland. I use a MSI laptop with a 2070Maxq hybrid graphics setup. The performance of Wolfenstein New Order shows the nvidia is working ;-)