I first tried out xmonad, then I switched to subtle, and now I'm using dwm.
xmonad <http://xmonad.org/> was a bit bulky from my experience. All configuration was done in haskell and you need to have ghc in order to compile the config. subtlewm <http://subforge.org/projects/subtle> was really nice. I liked it a lot, very simple and, well, subtle! I got tired of maintaining the plugin packages, however, since it's not pre-built in archlinux. If I used it straight out of subtle's repos, I may still be using it today. From what I remember, subtle worked fairly well on two monitors. I don't remember if there were any hickups though. :/ dwm <http://dwm.suckless.org/> offers an insane amount of customization. On the downside, you need to learn C. From my experience, DWM works well with 4 monitors. If you're willing to tinker with your WM and want to learn a bit of C, I'd give dwm a try. To quote their website, "dwm is only a single binary, and its source code is intended to never exceed 2000 SLOC" 2000 lines of code isn't that bad to read through if you want to tinker with DWM's fundamentals. That's just off the top of my head. If you'd like to know more, feel free to ask. Oh, and here is a screenshot of my 4 monitor machine running dwm. Granted, I'm not really using the tiling functionality in this screenshot, but I do regularly use it. http://i.imgur.com/VhzRT5a.png ~ *Frostyfrog* ^.^ On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:54 PM, John Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of those that I tried, wmii was the most configurable but had a heavier > learning curve. At the moment I'm pleased with spectrwm but miss some of > the flexiblity of wmii, however having the simplicity of spectrwm > configuration is almost worth the lack. > > i3 is meant to be a better wmii. I used to use wmii but I like i3 much > better (in part, I think the learning curve is probably not as steep as > wmii's). > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
