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I've been playing with a few others recently just for fun, but I keep coming back to dwm (although you really do need to modify it, because its defaults are terrible).
Openbox. This is my main window manager in all my previous systems and now in Slackware. I don't like full DE as they are too bloated. Although, I want to try someday a tiling window manager.
I don't like full DE as they are too bloated. Although, I want to try someday a tiling window manager.
I know what you mean. After starting with Mate and moving to KDE, I have settled on Enlightenment. Give it a whirl. It's somewhere between a pure WM and a DE, runs nearly as lightly as OB, and allows you to switch between stacking and tiling.
wait what, enlightenment tiling? which version? how? can you show me?
very very interesting. i always assumed e was totally mouse-centric.
I did not say it was mouse-free. That would be rat-poison.
As for tiling, however, the versions I know (E17 and later -- normally considered DEs or at least desktop "shells") all have a "mosaic" module that allows tiling. As far as I know this is also available in the still-supported WM-only E16 (https://www.enlightenment.org/download-e16).
At least with e17 and later you are given the mosaic or tiling option the first time you run E. If you do not select it then, you can go do "systems modules" later to load it.
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