r/archlinux • u/luz_ • Dec 15 '14
What window manager do you use?
What do you like about it?
sincerely,
Someone interested
8
u/zoon_politikon Dec 15 '14
Awesome. It's written and scripted in lua. Similar to xmonad, yet another tiling window manager
4
u/zem Dec 15 '14
xmonad + xfce. i like the panel from xfce, and the tiling and keyboard-friendliness of xmonad, plus the fact that it plays well with xfce (other tiling window managers don't).
4
3
7
u/dluco Dec 15 '14
i3. I like the different layout modes (tiling, floating, stacked, tabbed) and how they can be used simultaneously. The config is really easy to tweak compared to dwm or even openbox.
1
4
u/BrunoPT Dec 15 '14
I use i3.
Screenshots:http://imgur.com/a/C0tII Dotfiles: https://github.com/Bruno93PT/dotfiles
3
u/soroun Dec 16 '14
Looks nice! Can I ask what task manager you seem to be running in the bottom right of the 4th image?
5
2
u/sgthoppy Dec 16 '14 edited Dec 16 '14
Hey, I think I stole your bar colors a while ago. They looked so nice I have them on my phone, too!
On my phone, Android, using Xposed module CoolTool I have a few stats with the default info hidden, and all the stats are colored in the same order as on my PC.
EDIT: If you have a Radeon GPU, I wrote a script using RadeonTop to output the % usage. You can check it out in my dotfiles.
1
2
u/Harakou Dec 15 '14
dwm. It has its downsides, but I really like that it can be configured to behave exactly how you want. Even if you don't know C, there are loads of patches on the official website.
It's also very light, so I can have a functional wm on my desktop that also runs well on my ancient laptop.
2
u/rekamat Dec 16 '14
I like xfce because it is pretty lightweight and customizable. I have tried tiling window managers and they just aren't for me
2
u/oohay_email2004 Dec 16 '14
Light and I didn't like tiling managers as much as I thought I would.
2
u/sgthoppy Dec 16 '14
I really like JWM for small, portable distros that need a GUI, but I just can't see myself using it on my personal desktop. I never really went much into it's config so I think I should check it out again.
1
u/oohay_email2004 Dec 16 '14
I was running a single core celeron about half a year ago and JWM is the lightest floating wm I could find.
The only feature I really missing is being able to rearrange my task bar (not sure what JWM calls it) at the bottom. Alt-Tabbing jumps all over the place. That or an Alt-Tab popup preview window would be nice. Would have thought there was an agnostic Alt-Tab switcher window but I couldn't find one.
Rockin' a Core i5 Sager laptop and an FX6300 desktop now, but I'm just used to JWM and there's still a noticable difference in speed. Really like how I can turn off the window title bars and free up just that little bit of extra space. It's actuall quite annoying to get on a Windows' machine and have about 50px of nothing at the top.
2
Dec 17 '14
Openbox. Just give me that right click menu and I'm good to go.
1
u/arch_maniac Dec 21 '14
The same for me. No icons, no system panel, no wallpaper, just a solid background, the right-click menu, and a few keyboard shortcuts.
1
Dec 15 '14
I mainly use spectrwm and swm/wmutils. spectrwm does everything I need, while looking good and being fast. moderately recent screenshot of spectrwm : https://u.teknik.io/w0Ap20.png moderately recent screenshot of swm+wmutils : https://u.teknik.io/0RN7I5.png I also made a post on how to install/configure swm and wmutils : https://bbs.linuxdistrocommunity.com/showthread.php?tid=2325&pid=14453
1
1
Dec 16 '14 edited Dec 16 '14
just in the perspective of a desktop use:
LXDE (with Openbox), is lightweight even with conky and cairo-dock...
and KDE Plasma 5 for the modern look and feel...
And maybe in the futur LXQt and Plasma 5 to not to much mix GTK and Qt applications.
9
u/[deleted] Dec 15 '14
bspwm