List of minimal wm's

PackRat · 2011-12-19 01:41:55

dmhdlr wrote:

Hi all, I'm experimenting with a rudimentary setup where I don't even allow myself the luxury of wi-fi connection so as to remain distraction free. I'm looking for bare, bare, bare. No window borders, no systray. Just virtual desktops (one for a text editor, and one for mocp, etc.) and easy integration into GDM. I like Openbox, but I want something even more spartan. The root menu is much too convenient! Any thoughts?

If w9wm isn't working out for you, the windowless, borderless etc ... features you want are easily done with a minimal Fvwm configuration.

Doomicide · 2011-12-20 17:44:45

Another one: monsterwm

Grzegosz · 2011-12-20 20:19:59

Which one to choose if I'm a total beginner? Using only openbox, but I'd like to make use of full HD resolution and have a lightweigh and easy to configure wm.

Doomicide · 2011-12-20 20:49:00

@ Grzegosz: My first tiling-wm was Awesome (before I was using pytyle under openbox for a short time. Awesome is a really complete and comfortable wm, BUT the config file is written in lua, which is an advantage if you know lua or can adapt to programming languages fast. I couldn't and configuring Awesome was a horrible experience for me, even I learned a lot and all in all it was a more or less smooth transition to tiling. Scrotwm is more minimal than awesome (no native systray etc.), but feels lighter and the configuration is a simple textfile.

Grzegosz · 2011-12-20 21:06:04

Sounds like learning scrotwm will be the only decent thing to do smile . Thanks.

2ManyDogs · 2011-12-20 21:23:09

Grzegosz wrote:

Sounds like learning scrotwm will be the only decent thing to do . Thanks.

Good choice. smile

sunfizz98 · 2011-12-20 21:55:42

Recently moved to scrotwm and it is amazingly easy to learn and use.

.not · 2011-12-21 08:15:01

sunfizz98 wrote:

Recently moved to scrotwm and it is amazingly easy to learn and use.

Don't make me weak, I've been trying to stick to Openbox for about two months now, but I can't get myself away from tiled systems .. roll

kelean · 2011-12-21 13:51:23

I have a little experence with wmii.

Would scrotwm be a better choice?

Is scrotwm easier wmii?

PackRat · 2011-12-21 14:21:38

kelean wrote:

I have a little experence with wmii.
Would scrotwm be a better choice?
Is scrotwm easier wmii?

I found scrotwm to be easier to configure since there is just the one file to edit - pretty straight forward.

tenkainen · 2011-12-22 09:08:27

kelean wrote:

I have a little experence with wmii.
Would scrotwm be a better choice?
Is scrotwm easier wmii?

I've been happy with Wmfs, you should give it a spin too.
Plain text config file on it also.

ChickenPie4Tea · 2012-06-24 12:41:03

Doomicide wrote:

@ Grzegosz: My first tiling-wm was Awesome (before I was using pytyle under openbox for a short time. Awesome is a really complete and comfortable wm, BUT the config file is written in lua, which is an advantage if you know lua or can adapt to programming languages fast. I couldn't and configuring Awesome was a horrible experience for me, even I learned a lot and all in all it was a more or less smooth transition to tiling. Scrotwm is more minimal than awesome (no native systray etc.), but feels lighter and the configuration is a simple textfile.

Trouble is Scrotwm (now spectrwm) cant show the title bar of apps with Awesome you get a choice

jens · 2012-06-25 16:11:49

i3, evilwm, sawfish (?)

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Digit · 2012-06-29 19:17:09

wait... did no one mention tinywm yet? ... but it's the tiniest! (that i know of)

pidsley · 2012-06-29 20:08:12

Digit wrote:

wait... did no one mention tinywm yet? ... but it's the tiniest! (that i know of)

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/205966/#p205966

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