Comments on: Starting to see the appeal

By: colonelcrayon

colonelcrayon — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:18:54 +0000

Everyone falls prey to dwm eventually…

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:52:55 +0000

I used Xmonad for a bit, and someone suggested StumpWM to me as I’m trying to learn Common Lisp. You may have given me the push I need to get back into tiling WMs.

By: mentallaxative

mentallaxative — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:30:08 +0000

Hi KMandla,

I am glad you liked my setup. I called it unproductive because I spent a large amount of time tinkering with the dwm source code.

Hey, now I really feel like changing my key bindings again….

By: Freduardo

Freduardo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:24:14 +0000

Coincidentally, it just so happens that I’m also fiddling with tiling WM’s again. After trying out wmii and Awesome2 a while ago on my old laptop, I pretty much left it alone for a while. Like you, I could see some potential, but not enough to replace Openbox on my main computers.

Now though, I’m going to give Awesome3 another chance (again on the old laptop). Especially on older harware, where you’d opt for the terminal solution over the “graphical” one even quicker, it could be an excellent solution.

And of course, it also looks really cool. Or at least can be made to look really cool.

On another note, you’ve got to love the names some of those more excentric WM’s have been given. I mean Ratpoison, Ion, Awesome,… It just all sounds… erm… Great! (Note that I deliberately did not use the Awesome is awesome pun)