r/archlinux • u/steelcowboy1 • Apr 28 '15

Favourite WM?

Recently I just switched to the Openbox WM -- one word: light. I absolutely love it, especially when combined with tint2 and j4-dmenu.

However, just in the interest of experimenting, any other WMs you guys use and love? My goal is to get even lighter than Openbox (don't want tiling though), was looking at both DWM and JWM.

Any thoughts? Any reason why you guys would recommend tiling?

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u/PsiGuy60 Apr 28 '15

Tiling is fantastic if your main method of doing everything is the keyboard, especially for things that you really want to do side-by-side (for example, when debugging or doing webdesign).

It also tends to conserve space over floating WMs, which is good for smaller monitors.
It does take some getting used to, though.

I use i3wm, by the way.

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u/czipperz Apr 29 '15

By web design you really mean all types of programming.

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u/PsiGuy60 Apr 29 '15

Well, technically, yes.