Do you use a non-tiling window manager like IceWM or blackbox? I use a patched version of motif window manager and it works really well.

Please share!

  • 4ffy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I am a proud Openbox user. In the stacking realm, there is nothing quite like Openbox’s customizeability and the great tooling that surrounds it. In particular, opensnap gives me window snapping to the edge of the screen with the mouse, which is sorely missing from most light window managers. Openbox also has really powerful hotkeys (any arbitrary sequence of actions) alongside Emacs-style key chords, which makes it difficult to port my setup to any other environment.

    One day, I hope to migrate to labwc, which seems to be carrying Openbox’s banner into the Wayland era. Unfortunately, labwc doesn’t (and probably never will) support key chords and I have not been able to find a suitable replacement for tint2, which I use as my taskbar. Someday…

    Here is an old screenshot of mine. Nothing has changed since then.

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      1 year ago

      Emacs user eh? A man (or woman) of culture I see. and great screenshot!

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    blackbox is very minimal and does not have many features, but that is more of a tradeoff than a loss. icewm’s nano theme i love the look of it, i first discovered icewm from hearing about artix linux