https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm en a blog about Debian and self-hosting Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:15:00 +0000 PluXml https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1392398145-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1392398145-1 this one has no match:) http://notion.sourceforge.net/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:15:00 +0000 Wojtek https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1370554524-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1370554524-1 Just switched from wmii to i3. One thing I miss is multiple tagging a window: sometimes I like vlc to float on all "desktops". So it appears there's no such thing in i3 ☹ (Mind you, I was using Xft in wmii for more than a year.) Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:35:00 +0000 sussoger https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1359308170-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1359308170-1 For me flexibility is a key component. I'm not a purist, I need something that makes it easy to do whatever I'm doing. Awesome has a great approach in how it can integrate with another window manager. Of course certain minor KDE things does not work, but that's to be expected on an integration of this kind. For example, when you login it does not maintain the pager settings, nor restore apps to last position. I use Awesome's taskbar at the top, similar to MAC, with the KDE taskbar at the bottom, giving me best of both worlds. Tiling has certain advantages but I have found it preferable to have floating windows. What I find amazing is that Awesome is really the only one who have independent desktops for each screen. At least what I've been able to find. I would have expected the big distro's to jump all over it as it gives such an increase in flexibility, and per my limited understanding on the subject, only requires XRandR, which has been available for quite some time. Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:36:00 +0000 Steve https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1359307349-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1359307349-1 The thing I was looking for was the ability to have individual desktops per monitor, rather than the typical same desktop across all monitors, approach. In the end I use Awesome on top of KDE which works very well. I can drag windows between screens but cannot stretch a full screen window across screen boundaries. Multi monitor support with independent desktops is now a must the same way adding a second monitor became a must, it increases productivity to a new level. Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:22:00 +0000 Steve https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356895215-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356895215-1 For a comparison have a look at xmonad, too. Coming from KDE it was quite a learning curve, but i dont regret it so far. Multimonitor is very convenient and some modern stuff is available, too. Configuration is done in Haskell and there are a lot of extension modules available. Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:20:00 +0000 rieper https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356801242-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356801242-1 @Andrew Shadura : Excellent, that is good to know. My guess would be that this shift would somehow be related to the fact it is no longer part of the suckless project. Too bad it no longer has easily accessible documentation, although there is a wmii-doc Debian package I should have a look to. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:14:00 +0000 Tanguy https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356789337-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356789337-1 Actually, recent wmii supports notification area, proper fonts, and has better multi-monitor support (it's still far from perfect). Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:55:00 +0000 Andrew Shadura https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356739708-1 https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article85/tiling-wm/#c1356739708-1 @MJ Ray : I do not think GitHub is a good example, on the contrary, most project on GitHub have at least a good README. My hypothesis would be that these two hosting sites (Google code and Launchpad) do not support documentation very well indeed, or at least do not give much incentives to write it. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:08:00 +0000 Tanguy