Tiling window manager for Slackware ?
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as Slackware does not come with some packaged-in tiling window manager I'm curious if anybody else would welcome such addition. If tiling WMs are popular in this community which, I guess, likes simplicity, effectiveness and straightforwardness. Stock Slackware distributes just several but floating-only WMs like Blackbox(abandoned project), Fluxbox, Fvwm, WindowMaker, xfwm (bundled in Xfce) and kwm (bundled in KDE). What tiling WM would you like to see in some of next Slackware releases ? |
I would like to see i3, but if that is not accepted I would just built it myself, as I do now.
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I rarely resize or move windows. I keep most windows maximized, except ROX Filer. I use 2 workspaces sometimes. I've tried tiling wm's, but they take up valuable screen space, and don't help me.
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I'm using dwm, but it's not useful to add it to Slackware, as configuration is done by modifying a header file.
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i3 suits me best. As i3 is a very active project with each (sub)release bringing new bugfixes/features, even if it was part of the stock Slackware, I'd still build it myself.
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All mentioned wms can set selected workspace to maximize windows by default. Also find very handy to split workspace on two parts (either 2/3 to 1/3 or half-to-half). So you can do some work in one app while reading related documentation at the same time. The point is you need not to manually position and resize these windows as it's done by tiling wm automatically. I wonder what tiling wms did you tried as they usually take as minimum valuable space as possible. Windows fill whole available space and fit tightly to each other. Rendering of just a 1 pixel wide border is also quite common. Most of desktop space is left to applications - no fancy borders & titlebars, no gaps between windows, no desktop icons, no thick panels with launchers etc. |
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I've only used XMonad, and I like it apart from when I find applications that don't work with how I have it set up. However, I would not like to see it included in Slackware. Its dependencies (including GHCI) are very heavy.
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I used to use Ratpoison. Tiling does take up too much screen space, as I've never had a very large monitor it's not really useful to have, say, one window using most of the screen and another using a small sliver on one side. I also tend to use maximised windows, so something like Ratpoison or some other tabbing window manager is more useful. The only downside was having to push a button to get the time, rather than just looking to the corner.
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I do agree, dependency requirements are quite heavy, mostly GHC compiler & environment. Although for the solely run xmonad does not require it as it's native binary linked to standard C libraries. However any need to change a configuration would require installation of GHC again. |
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Tabbing is a very nice feature especially on small screens and for example i3 or xmonad handle tabbing very well. |
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