Looking for wmii replacment (with stacking-mode!)

Deathcrow · 2009-02-07 19:48:31

Hi guys,

i dont want to use wmii anymore (too unstable).

I've already tried Awesome and Xmonad and they both seem great, but they lack the stack-feature of wmii (mod-s). I have the habit of opening quite a lot of terminals and stuff and stacking helps me to keep an overview over all them.

Are there any alternatives for me?

OpenBSD · 2009-02-07 21:31:08

If you can live with tabbed and not stacked: xmonad or scrotwm plus screen.

dcurtis · 2009-02-07 22:34:05

i too would like to find something like this. something with multiple regions (columns) that allow you to have different layouts in each. so /bump

does xmonad support tabs or are you referring to the screen tabs?

dcurtis · 2009-02-07 23:07:42

deathcrow, what is unstable about wmii? the only thing i don't like is the damn configuration. i just don't want to have to install plan9 port and I don't have the time right immediately to hack up wmiirc-lua.

Deathcrow · 2009-02-08 11:17:43

dcurtis wrote:

deathcrow, what is unstable about wmii? the only thing i don't like is the damn configuration. i just don't want to have to install plan9 port and I don't have the time right immediately to hack up wmiirc-lua.

I have one very specific issue with the 3.6 release of wmii: Behaviour of mplayer. Actually all my wmii crashes were connected to mplayer i think. For example try dragging a running mplayer window with the mouse from left to right column. Or have a stacking column and cycle through the windows while mplayer is running, etc...

Currently i am testing wmii-hg which doesnt seem to have this problem. Which is great!

Mr.Elendig · 2009-02-08 14:12:37

qtile allowes you to do it, but a warning, it's in pre-alpha stage atm

lakersforce · 2009-02-08 14:38:03

Deathcrow wrote:

I have one very specific issue with the 3.6 release of wmii: Behaviour of mplayer. Actually all my wmii crashes were connected to mplayer i think. For example try dragging a running mplayer window with the mouse from left to right column. Or have a stacking column and cycle through the windows while mplayer is running, etc...

Works fine for me

andre.ramaciotti · 2009-02-08 15:36:49

There are *lots* of layouts in xmonad-contrib, maybe one of them does what you want. http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/

Square · 2009-02-08 17:14:24

Try ion3. It's similar to wmii.

It is a tabbed tiling window manager. You control frames, in which apps reside. Each frame can hold multiple apps in tabs, and can be split horizontally and vertically at will, as well as resized at will.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16754

And, for those who don't use ion on "principle," I say that the child shouldn't be neglected due to feuding parents

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Deathcrow · 2009-02-09 17:17:03

lakersforce wrote:

Deathcrow wrote:
I have one very specific issue with the 3.6 release of wmii: Behaviour of mplayer. Actually all my wmii crashes were connected to mplayer i think. For example try dragging a running mplayer window with the mouse from left to right column. Or have a stacking column and cycle through the windows while mplayer is running, etc...
Works fine for me

I have replicated this behaviour on at least three different PCs with different setups.

So either you are a using a different version or you are very wrong.

marco_p · 2009-02-10 00:02:19

Try the latest scrotwm it has some pretty nifty stacking stuff. Particularly look at M-, M-. M-S-, and M-S-.
You can even resize windows while maintaining an X amount of columns.

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