💾 Archived View for dimension.sh › ~novaburst › 8f680026.gmi captured on 2022-03-01 at 15:14:36. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

View Raw

More Information

➡️ Next capture (2022-06-03)

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Window managers

Authors: Aoi Koizumi <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 2022 01 24

I have like, three window managers installed on my main machine running FreeBSD 13.0-R

I'll describe my brief experiences on those below.

cwm

Hardly know anything about it, aside from it being built-in on a OpenBSD base install.

Turns out it's actually pretty good, and well documented. Configuration file is also quite simple.

I'm just too lazy to get myself used to it.

dwm

A window manager I once disliked alongside i3 for no reason at all, besides from extreme shilling from some of its users.

Only issue I had with it was because of conflicts with profanity and weechat, so I ended up recompiling it from the FreeBSD Ports tree and it uses the Win key instead of Alt.

It became my second-favorite window manager, and I use it as vanilla as possible, mainly to avoid it turning it to shit.

i3

At first, just like with dwm I got very weirded out because I came from using w9wm, its perfect opposite.

Adapted myself quite quickly to it over time, and eventually became second nature to me.

It's pretty smooth from my experience.

At least I was looking to make more use of my keyboard, and I guess I've already achieved that with tiling window managers.