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!

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.