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What is your favourite floating window manager? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use glazier, a WM I wrote myself. But given your description, it won't fit you at all ^^ It's very bare bones, and requires that you script everything not mouse driven using wmutils.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, like bspwm then.

If I was younger, I'd jump on the idea to be able to configure everything to my liking and making a "perfect" setup. However, I want to reach a compromise between a lean system and something which has sane defaults OOTB. Your setup seems fantastic but it's going to take me a week or so, which is not what I want to do. Thank you for mentioning your project though.