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Topic: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Hey people, My current favourite is Awesome. Mainly because of the flexibility although I have limited knowledge of lua and am currently "trying" to learn it lol I had best do by the time conky switches to lua.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Does Conky switch to Lua?

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Yes, the syntax in conky2 will be in Lua : http://wiki.conky.be/index.php?title=Conky_2_design

And my favourite Tiling WM is awesome too .. because I've never tried another smile

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Mine is awesome too cool

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

SuNjACk wrote:

Mine is awesome too cool

Yeah suNjAck yours is awesome and awesome! lol

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Wmfs, tho I'm not using it at the moment. I also liked Subtle

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Wmfs, tho I'm not using it at the moment. I also liked Subtle

I love the look of subtle but cannot download it

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Scrot, simple efficient and perfectly easy to use when i need strict tiling.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

I like scrotwm, you install it, change three things in a very simple syntax, and you're good to go. The others kinda freaked me out, but I guess I'm not a tiling Wm kinda guy.

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Im gonna try scrotwm

Unia wrote:

Wmfs, tho I'm not using it at the moment. I also liked Subtle

btw Unia do you have a link to a tar.gz of subtle so I can compile it?

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

wmii for me when using a tiling wm, though I prefer fluxbox. I used to like awesome, but the more I used it, the less awesome it seemed.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

anticapitalista wrote:

though I prefer fluxbox.

I'd never have guessed big_smile

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

I like i3, with scrotwm as a close second.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

My favorite tiling wm is awesome. I like its panel compared to other tiling wms since it is mouse friendly and it has a native systray.

WMFS is probably a close second however there is a bug that makes daily use rather annoying. Secondly I do not like how its grid layout works versus awesome's fair layout.

Subtle is the third tiling wm I have managed to config. Subtle is great...if you prefer manual tiling. Personally I find it a hassle. However I do like its idea of gravities and the keybinds to move the client between gravities are cool.

Edit: xeNULL, try this link:

http://subforge.org/attachments/downloa … 73-mu.tbz2

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Subtle - IMO the perfect blend of "minimalistic" wm with just enough extras (native bar and tray) to make it "user friendly",

i3 - very straightforward tiling WM with a very clean and easy config file,

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

ScrotWM, definitely.

I've used a few, but after discovering ScrotWM, I can't seem to escape it. I like how it doesn't baby you with fancy layouts or workspace memories. It's also the fastest tiler I've tried (noticeable on very old hardware) and it still uses Xlib, just imagine how much faster it'll be when they change over to XCB. The simple config is definitely a plus, but I was familiar with Dwm and Xmonad before trying ScrotWM, so syntax wasn't exactly a problem either way. It kinda feels like a saner DWM and lighter Xmonad to me in many ways. Most importantly it doesn't attempt to be a DE like so many other tilers these days (cough... awesome... cough).

WMFS would be in second place. I'd use it more if it was less CPU-hungry.

If both projects suddenly die, I'd probably go back to Dwm.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

My favorite so far is 'wmii'. For manual tiling i like 'musca'. Also like 'echinus' with its easy float/tiling switch.

Also some credit must be given to 'dwm', which most popular tilers descend or were inspired from. And the pioneers: 'larswm', 'ion' and 'ratpoison'.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Almost forgot about 'echinus'...
That was my tiler I used but I had problems with fullscreens on my media players.

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Have you ever tried "notion"?

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anonymous wrote:

Edit: xeNULL, try this link:

http://subforge.org/attachments/downloa … 73-mu.tbz2

Thanks again anon =]

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@aaro
Have you ever tried "notion"?

Not yet smile

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aaro wrote:
servingwater wrote:

@aaro
Have you ever tried "notion"?

Not yet smile

In case you did not know....

http://notion.sourceforge.net/

If you enjoyed Ion you might like it, it's in somewht active developement!

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

i3 had a new release -  i3 v4.0.1
Looking good I might add! smile

http://i3wm.org/

Anybody could suggest me a nice little tray program, since it's the one thing missing I need/want. So I can make the switch......

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

I tried only awesome and scrotwm. I prefer scrotwm, it's incredibly fast, easy too configure, minimalistic to the core and does exactly what you want.

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Anybody could suggest me a nice little tray program, since it's the one thing missing I need/want. So I can make the switch......

Try trayer or stalonetray.

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Re: Your Favourite Tiling WM

Scrotwm amd Wmfs for me lately.

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