Posts Tagged wmii
Another Window Manager Emerges… DWM
So, I have managed to break yet another window manager and as customary, I move on to another one until it ends up horribly breaking. The newest candidate that I am starting to like is dwm, another tiling window manager like wmii. Combined with dmenu, dwm is pretty much the same overall experience as wmii was, except now my status bar is on the top along with dmenu invocation. dwm also seems to correctly tile my urxvt windows, which wmii never did.
Assuming I don’t manage to randomly break dwm like all the other window managers, dwm will remain my window manager for the time being.
wmii, the other window manager
So lately I have been using wmii over fluxbox as my main window manager. What is wmii you ask? Well it’s a dynamic window manager that tiles windows to be equal sizes, so you never have to do it manually.
urxvt seems to break this concept of dynamic resizing on “workspaces” it is spawn on, but this came to be an advantage. I didn’t want pidgin to grow/resize dynamically, so I simply spawn a urxvt window on that workspace and consequently use it for screen and irssi.
At first I didn’t think I would like wmii, but I really started liking it after messing with it for a bit. It has a sleek and minimal bar at the bottom that contains the tags (workspaces), cpu load, and the time by default. mod + enter launches a terminal of your choice (mine was urxvt obviously), and mod+p lets you launch programs with auto complete as you type. by default the mod key is set to alt, which initially gave me problems and almost made me scrap the entire window manager on its own. Eventually I figured out I could map it to a different key, and none other than the useless windows key became that key. Irssi and wmii now happily coexist with each other.
For now it seems wmii has taken its place as my default window manager, but fluxbox still rocks too.