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What is your favourite floating window manager? (self.linux)
submitted 1 year ago by MigratingtoLemmy to c/[email protected]
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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!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

XMonad has most of the features you've listed though: window swallowing, fake fullscreen (other solutions exist: tabbed layout, fullscreen...), xresources (other solutions exist, just not familiar of them tbh), scratchpad, tags, taffybar and many more features in xmonad-contrib!

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

Does XMonad have a master-slave layout?

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

Do you have an image at hand that showcases that layout? The only images I am finding from a little DDG'ing are similar to XMonad's XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns, but I am not sure if that is what you are looking for.

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

Master-slave layout essentially splits your screen into just two windows. Any new window opening gets automatically assigned as the new master and other windows get demoted to slave and moved down the stack.

I also quite like the stack layout dwm offers. It allows me to navigate through my windows with just up and down keys instead of left/right + up/down.

I've looked for dwm alternatives before but haven't found anything that does everything dwm does. XMonad is interesting but seems daunting to set up (also Haskell)

EDiT: A quick search tells me that you can indeed have a master-slave layout on XMonad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What you are describing for the master-sleve layout can be achieved with either, XMonad.Layout.Grid or Tall layout (more likely, other ways to achieve this).

The stack layout on the other hand can be achieved through the XMonad.Layout.Accordion? And if you are not a fan of that you could always refer to the XMonad.Layout.Tabbed.

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