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blewisjr

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Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 10

Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

Hello everyone,

I am looking for a light weight window manager with tile support.  I am a programmer by hobby and I like to be able to maximize my screen real estate.
I love hot key and terminal use it just speeds up the process.  I don't however want it to have a huge scripting learning curve.  Currently I am in the process of learning Android development so having to learn a new scripting language on top of it won't make matters better.
Currently I am comfortable with bash, and python.  I can also do some work in perl but not super fluent with it yet.

It would also help if it has dual monitor support.  My main monitor is a 23" LCD max res 1920x1080 and my second monitor is a 17" LCD max res 1440x900 until I get around to picking up another 23".

hume's doona

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 206

Re: Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

wmii can be configured in anything from plain text to c++ to... including python.

is there such thing as a heavy weight tiler?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

is there such thing as a heavy weight tiler?

I've heard KDE now supports tiling ;P

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … w_Managers

Runiq

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 1,053

Re: Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

Search first, post later:

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

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hume's doona

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 206

Re: Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

Search first, post later:

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

another good wiki page is the tiler comparison, the chart shows vitals, like what they are configured in

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … w_Managers

Last edited by hume's doona (2010-10-08 12:17:51)

litemotiv

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Looking for a light weight tiled window manager.

See the wiki pages mentioned above, there are also many threads on the forums about this.

Closing.

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