i3 (with tmux). It is really nice if you want to control your tile placement, i.e. it is not an automatic tiler. I have been using it a couple of years both at home and work.
One thing that works nicely with dual displays is to assign super to one windows key and hyper to the other. Then, assign keysyms based on which monitor you are using. So, I use the left windows key as a modifier on the left monitor and the right windows key on the right. If you do try it, I'd recommend checking out i3blocks https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks for statusbar. On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Levi Pearson <levipear...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Frostyfrog <frostyfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > You say that like it’s a bad thing. Everyone should have ghc installed > anyway. ;) > > I also like lua, so I tried awesomewm, but for some reason it always felt > really slow compared to xmonad; if I’m going to go all minimalist with my > window manager, it’d better be fast. > > > 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. > > Not as nice as xmonad, and not even the guys who made Unix thought > configuring stuff in C was a good idea. But it’s nice if you don’t want to > change the config. The folks at suckless.org have some nice programs if > you need lightweight alternatives to things, but I think they must be > slightly insane. :) > > /* > 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. */
