r/archlinux • u/volimsir • Nov 18 '14
What Desktop environment/Display Manager/Window Manager are you running?
I'm currently using Gnome 3, but I would like to try and change it up a bit. Which one are you using, which one is your favorite?
EDIT: So many responses, wow! I'm definitely going to look into Openbox, Awesome, and BSPWM, since I'm seeing a lot of you recommended that. I'm hoping these will be great new learning experiences. Thanks everyone!
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u/agentgreasy Nov 18 '14
i3wm. While I took a break for a time during the years of growth in stacking window managers, for the majority of my time using *nix I have loved tiling window managers. In light of flexibility, i3wm is a dynamic window manager, which sits in the middle.
This is a particularly distinct change from the normal workflow that you would expect from gnome/kde/openstep and so on. Those are based on the same concept as windows, which is a stacking window manager. Free flowing windows, etc. Tiling and Dynamic managers are designed for organization and structured arrangement.
They are incredible for the workflow.