Comments on: Tiled window manager

By: Suddenly things make sense « Motho ke motho ka botho

Suddenly things make sense « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:32:57 +0000

[...] suddenly everything makes sense. A long time ago I spun past awesome, trying to figure out what the appeal was. Now I know. Yes, this is still a graphical system, so [...]

By: Starting to see the appeal « Motho ke motho ka botho

Starting to see the appeal « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:49:23 +0000

[...] space-efficiency standpoint, it might be attractive to use a tiling window manager. I’ve even tried one or two, but it’s not much of a speed boost over any other X-based desktop in my opinion, so I stick [...]

By: See, I knew it would sneak up on me … « Motho ke motho ka botho

See, I knew it would sneak up on me … « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:04:20 +0000

[...] as a “rage” for anything other than the default Gnome desktop), and while awesome was only vaguely interesting, I have to admit that I find some of those tiled, ultra-sparse desktops [...]

By: Onyros

Onyros — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:44:32 +0000

Jeez… Awesome is addictive. Incredibly so.

I started playing around with it, the first time it lasted a couple of hours: the novelty effect. It soon wore off.

Later on… it started itching. I had a WM epiphany, and imagined it could be THE window manager I had been looking for all this time.

Soon enough, I had this: http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/574/awesome07qe7.jpg (that’s still running on Ubuntu, with a lot of unnecessary daemons and services lying around).

I’ve grown so used to ALT+# (1 to 9) that I can’t even imagine doing things differently right now

Using Awesome with gmrun seems like the perfect combination, right now. I did a little script to launch gmrun, and using its history as an adapted menu. When gmrun is launched I have the gmrun.history file replaced with a backup which has all the usual commands I use.

Regarding the speed, I do not notice that much of a difference compared to Flux or Openbox, but the whole tag working process… It saves time. I use a conjunction of floating, max (for browsers and gui email clients, like Claws-Mail) and tiled layouts, and I’m completely amazed.

http://img337.imageshack.us/my.php?image=awesome13du0.jpg

BTW, I’ll soon have a little LiveCD up with Awesome as a WM for testing.

By: Slava_Askeri

Slava_Askeri — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:16:53 +0000

Try xmonad. Cool stuff.

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:32:23 +0000

Have you ever used Twin? It is a tiny window manager designed to run on the console with no X.

Here is a screenshot of it running in a terminal taken from my Day Without X post.

I’m not sure how usable it would be in the long run, but it is small and fast.

By: William "Papa" Meloney

William "Papa" Meloney — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:17:14 +0000

Changing perspectives ( http://pa-2.blogspot.com/2007/10/changing-perspectives.html )

The AWM paradigm ( http://pa-2.blogspot.com/2007/10/awm-paradigm.html )