Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 22:58 UTC
Window Managers A new release of dwn is available. "dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. It is the little brother of wmii."
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Anyone using a tiled WM?
by braddock (2.2) on Wed 30th May 2007 23:52 UTC
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Does anyone here have a favorite tiled wm to recommend that is appropriate for daily use?

I've always been curious if they are ready for "prime time".

RE: Anyone using a tiled WM?
by jessta (3.76) on Thu 31st May 2007 02:07 UTC in reply to "Anyone using a tiled WM?"
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I've been using dwm for months, it's definely ready for 'prime time'.

so soon?
by broken_symlink (2.56) on Thu 31st May 2007 00:36 UTC
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anyone know where to find a changelog?

wmii
by duncanbojangles (1.2) on Thu 31st May 2007 00:40 UTC
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I've been using wmii for several months now without any problems at all. I haven't had any crashes, bad performance, or otherwise negative effects from using it.

It took me a while to get the keybindings to my preference (more like the editor joe, less like the editor emacs) and make some neat shell scripts for monitoring wireless, battery, etc. to put in the bottom thingy, but once that was done all was smooth sailing.

I'd say it took me two to three days to get it set up to my liking and I haven't changed anything since.

Certainly a change...
by madcrow (2.72) on Thu 31st May 2007 15:43 UTC
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From the norm. I happen to be a fan of the nice, GUI-configurable sort of WM (and WindowMaker is about as minimalist as I'll go), but I could see this being useful if back-ported to X11R5 and used on some cruddy old workstation that somebody has lying around to play with.

ion everyday
by MattK (2.16) on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 16:45 UTC
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I use ion everyday, for work and play. Much more efficient than I ever was in Gnome.