Hi there, I'm looking at floating window mangers as an in-between of DEs and escaping configuration hell (somewhat) of tiling Window Managers.

Specifically, I was looking at IceWM and OpenBox, but would love recommendations and discussion on what you like and why.

Cheers!

    • Gilgamesh@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      What about dwm makes it a more appealing choice compared to XMonad? (Excluding the C vs Haskell argument)

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        1 year ago

        i dont have much experience with xmonad but i tried every wm at some point. usually the things that keep me with dwm is that i found a build with very sane defaults and a number of patches i appreciate like swallowing, fake fullscreen(so you can fullscreen a program inside the assigned window) or xresources/pywal integration . i also love the scratchpad implementation and the tag system with a tag 0. i also like dwmblocks for the status bar . now im sure some of this features are available on other wm but i never found all of them in one like on DWM.

        i also use ST as terminal and it works great with dwm while it gives me issues with other WM(usually resizing issues)

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      1 year ago

      dwm's so good. It has pretty much everything one would need and once you've set it up, no need to change anything.