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Hey lains, what's your favourite wm and why? Lets have a talk about wm's

I use fluxbox because it's very minimal and highly customisable. I set up hotkeys that allow me to easily jump between my many terminals and it works well with my preference of everything full screen all the time. You should talk about your own wm in the op when you make a thread like this.

Compiz because you can do everything by mouse without ever touching the keyboard.

tmuxwm from [0] I use tmux with a bunch of windows/panes inside and furryfox. Sometimes i'll open a movie with mplayer or pdf/epub w/ mupdf. That's the best wm for me. And yeah, i work on thinkpad x200, so there's no huge screen space for me. 0 - https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/junkdrawer

>>4554 Xmonad isn't just a WM, it's a tool to create your own WM. Also it's Haskell.

>>4554 I like dwm [0] the most currently, the defaults are really close to what I want and I love the configuration in source code approach. [0] - https://dwm.suckless.org/

I use i3 now. It just works and needs minimal configuration to be comfortable. I used to use xmonad but I couldn't get it to mesh well with SLiM (would get a blackscreen after logging in).

I use StumpWM. It's not the fastest thing around, but the customisability and flexibility are hard to beat. Whenever some piece of functionality is lacking or annoys me it's easy enough to adjust it myself. This comes very naturally since most of my work is done in Emacs too.

>>4554 I've been using i3 for a few years now, mostly because it's the first WM I installed. I'm tempted to switch to XMonad but with Sway getting closer and closer to being usable switching makes less and less sense to me.

>>4554 isn't there a thread on this already? i like cwm and dwm

Right now i'm using XFCE but for a long time DWM was my way to go. Config is easy as fuaark. You can install some useful patches like bottomstack and uselessgap and you are set. Really nice wm. Others i have used over time are wmfs, i3 and awesomewm but i always came back to dwm. I wanna try sourcemage linux so it's going to be a good oportunity to use it again.

cwm t. lazy openbsd installer

rio. no bullsoykaf, stays out of my hair.

>>4554 I use StumpWM. It's pleasant, easy to customize as I already program with Common Lisp, and I can easily change the behavior while using it with the C-t : command that invokes EVAL. It's pleasant to customize, as the configuration file is simply normal Common Lisp with new functions and variables provided by the window manager's package. I went for the longest time with my sound buttons not working, until I saw someone customizing their i3wm and decided to follow suit; here's the code I used: (define-key *top-map* (kbd "XF86AudioRaiseVolume") "exec pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 +10%") (define-key *top-map* (kbd "XF86AudioLowerVolume") "exec pactl -- set-sink-volume 0 -10%") (define-key *top-map* (kbd "XF86AudioMute") "exec pactl -- set-sink-mute 0 toggle") It's convenient that it uses a key mapping system and the prefix key is merely its own mapping, but, as the code shows, there's nothing preventing someone from registering other keys in the most basic and foremost mapping.

>>4707 it's incredible how usable it is out of the box, you can go pretty far with it and the base Xorg stuff like xclock

bspwm with sxhkd is my soykaf, only wish it had better documentation

Openbox. It just werks.

>>4554 openbox w/ tint2 very customizable without needing to know any programming language, all the files to manage it are accessible right on the context menus. it's also very fast and sleek for my standards. Used to have gnome2, then icewm, then mate, and i've finally settled. been running cbpp9 since last summer. wouldn't change to anything else anymore.

>>4571 I was a stumpwm user for years. The only reason I switched was that I never made much use of the customizability, and my hardware is old and soykaf enough that the poor performance was really annoying (resizing would take 30 seconds while the window division crawled across the fuarrrking screen). But being able to run a REPL within the wm and then eval my config straight from emacs was amazing. xmonad is my main choice now, and I don't see myself leaving it until wayland is more dominant.

>>6355 I'm pretty sure the resizing crawl is a Stumpwm problem, unrelated to hardware. It's slow as molasses even on the (relatively) modern hardware I use. I wish someone would fix it because at the moment I just work around it and pretend that it's not important.

>>6364 Patches welcome Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

>>6378 As soon as I made that post I thought 'why couldn't that someone be me?' However, I turned tail and ran as soon as I saw the resize-frame function. I wouldn't even know where to begin figuring out why this is so slow. https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/blob/master/tile-group.lisp#L704

>>4706 I've heard the name SourceMage alot lately. What makes this district so good? Is it the gimmick commands?

>>4554 I love openbox. It's lightweight and still has a similar characteristics to a more windows like environmental that I had used for a long time. Nice and configurable and easy to adapt to.

XFCE

>>4554 I use windowmaker, though I've been thinking about trying out i3 or awesome for a bit. I've tried fvwm in the past but the customization was more complex than I was willing to learn at the time, maybe I'll try it again after I get sick of windowmaker

>>4706 >>6423 Yeah I'm wondering this too. From what I'm reading right now their package manager (which seems to be the main thing of the distro) just looks like a more automated version of using SlackBuilds on Slackware?

>>7050 Pretty much, except Source Mage requires an encyclopedia knowledge of Linux to use. I use Lunar, it's like Source Mage except it uses systemd (which I actually like) instead of Source Mage's janky in house init that nothing's made for. Lunar also has safe defaults for USE flags, something Source Mage sorely lacks

When I'm on underpowered machine – i3. It's really nice to navigate and move around, especially if you use a lot of terminals. And it looks nice after you configure it. When I'm on my rig – kwin. Because KDE. All my cool KDE applications are nicely integrated, I have my options and effects, and I can make everything look nice.