What WM should I use?

JerichoKru · 2010-09-13 18:50:01

Hello fellow Arch-ers, I have a rather old (2004ish) laptop and because of its age (and rather weak specs), I don't want to install an all out DE. I've used openbox (with lxde) so I am fairly familiar with it and somewhat with fluxbox. I'm feeling adventurous and would like to try something different. I looked into tiling WMs though, I'm not sure if I'd like something like that. Earlier, FVWM got my interest...but I quickly found out I had no idea what I was doing. I took a look at PekWM which looks interesting.

What others might you suggest?

karol · 2010-09-13 18:54:39

http://roscidus.com/desktop/

Or just try 'em one-by-one: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … s_.28WM.29

lmbrjck · 2010-09-13 18:57:16

If you're interested in a tiling window manager, try Awesome. It works great on my netbook. It's lightweight and not the most difficult wm I've ever tried setting up, and there are some pretty good tutorials. http://awesome.naquadah.org/

drcouzelis · 2010-09-13 20:01:08

You could try Window Maker. It's a very lightweight and fast floating window manager. It's complete, in the sense that you don't need to add your own application launcher and iconified-window manager applications.

I am using Window Maker now on my desktop, but I also happily used it a lot nine years ago on my Fujitsu Lifebook P2110 laptop. (a powerful "netbook" before netbooks were invented)

archman-cro · 2010-09-13 20:07:42

Another good try for tilers is i3. This one is lightweight, works really fast, it's easy to configure (one centralized config file).

Wintervenom · 2010-09-13 20:10:20

Another vote in for [i3] before the moderators lock your thread.

codycarey · 2010-09-13 20:16:01

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lig … w_managers

warenoso · 2010-09-13 20:23:49

Take a look of wmfs very customizable. Really easy to configure.

katafrakt · 2010-09-13 20:52:52

I switched from awesome to xmonad recently and gained quite a lot of speed

codycarey · 2010-09-13 20:56:40

katafrakt wrote:

I switched from awesome to xmonad recently and gained quite a lot of speed

I actually had a debate about which to use, Awesome or Xmonad, and ended up going with Awesome since I'm more familiar with C than Haskell. Where do you notice big gains in speed with Xmonad?

jasonwryan · 2010-09-13 21:05:29

Wintervenom wrote:

Another vote in for [i3] before the moderators lock your thread.

Indeed. The standard advice is just to try a selection of them...

Closing

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