looking for a better wm
I'm a bit tired of fluxbox. I like the idea of no window decoration except for a thin 1-2 px border, no tabs, no slits, no docks - perfect for screen-based workflows. Plowing through the x11-wm category is really not as easy as it may seem. Still, there are some decent candidates:
- fluxbox (try to reconfigure it), black-/open-/hackedbox
- icewm
- ion
- ratpoison
- evilwm/badwm/evilpoison
- dwm
- weewm
- wmii
I'm trying out wmii 3.6-rc2. It looks nice. Window titlebars are still there, the initial tutorial suggests using mouse for moving and resizing windows, Alt-{l,h} moves between columns of windows, but it selects the last used window in a column, not the closest to the previous one, which is not quite ergonomic. I'll try to get used to it for a bit and maybe try other wm's.
Topic revision: r1 - 05 Mar 2007 - 21:22:00 - Main.AndrewPantyukhin