10 Feb
2023
10 Feb
'23
1:43 a.m.
Hi Folks,
Once again I seek your experience and advice. I want a tiling window manager, and I have
relatively few features: I'd like to be able to
* open an arbitrary number of "panes" and run something in them. Maybe some
predefined layouts.
* cycle the panes
* drag one pane on top of another and have that be interpreted as a pane swap.
* resize panes by dragging the boundaries.
I have tried i3 and xmonad and I got no-f******-where with them. It is not clear to me why
they didn't work, but I don't thing I want to spend the effort to find out, unless
somebody has a very strong endorsement for either of them.
Anybody got any war stories about this that end with a victory?
Thanks for the help,
--
Chris.
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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
10 Feb
10 Feb
6:24 p.m.
I did a quick package search and found about a dozen window managers. Two that mentioned
tiling explicitly in the short description are:
Bluetile
Spectrwm
I think both twm and jwm support tiling. I haven't used either in quite some time.
These are very very simple wm's
I don't have any experience with the two the package search turned up.
-Gary
On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 05:43:15PM -0800, Chris Miller wrote:
Hi Folks,
Once again I seek your experience and advice. I want a tiling window manager, and I have
relatively few features: I'd like to be able to
* open an arbitrary number of "panes" and run something in them. Maybe some
predefined layouts.
* cycle the panes
* drag one pane on top of another and have that be interpreted as a pane swap.
* resize panes by dragging the boundaries.
I have tried i3 and xmonad and I got no-f******-where with them. It is not clear to me
why they didn't work, but I don't thing I want to spend the effort to find out,
unless somebody has a very strong endorsement for either of them.
Anybody got any war stories about this that end with a victory?
Thanks for the help,
--
Chris.
V:916.799.9461
F:916.974.0428
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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6:48 p.m.
Hi Gary,
I did a quick package search and found about a dozen
window managers. Two that
mentioned tiling explicitly in the short description are:
Bluetile
Spectrwm
I think both twm and jwm support tiling. I haven't
used either in quite some
time. These are very very simple wm's
I have lists of window managers, and I
have even tried two fairly highly rated -- i3 and xmonad. I'm here to tell you, I
couldn't get either one to do a damn thing! This is, obviously, not a criticism of the
window managers. I'm looking for some brief instruction.
I don't have any experience with the two the
package search turned up.
Well, that would be helpful, if you had it.
Thanks for the help,
--
Chris.
V:916.799.9461
F:916.974.0428
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: > Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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