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Which Tiling Window Managers do you like, and why? (lemmy.ml)

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feel free to list other window managers you've used.

I have been happy with bspwm, but considering trying something else. I love its simplicity and immense customizability. I like that it is shell scriptable, but it is not a deal breaker feature for me.

I like how the binary split model makes any custom partition possible.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently I have been using river. It's extremely easy to configure via a shell script, and it's very fast and stable. It's another dwm clone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not exactly a dwm clone, it's way better than that. It takes all the best parts from dwm and bspwm, and I've been loving it so far

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The binary split tree is bspwm's best and most important feature imo. I'm sad river doesn't follow that model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

River defers Layout management to an external program (rivertile). If you want a layout based on a binary split tree, you can write your own so-called layout generator