Tilling WM on netbook?

Mmarzex · 2010-07-05 03:34:12

Hi all,

I've been using awesome on my laptop and desktop and have had openbox on my netbook, but after having been using awesome I'm really enjoying it and finding my productivity is actually better not having to use alt tab going through tons of windows. So I was wondering if there was any tilling wm good for a netbook and if so what you would recommend for me to use.

schen · 2010-07-05 03:35:29

Awesome is fine for the netbook. In fact, pretty much any tiling window manager can be used with a netbook, so play around and maybe you'll find a new favorite Tiling WM.

jasonwryan · 2010-07-05 03:39:07

dwm works for me on my 9" EeePC screen...

You might also want to look at echinus.

x33a · 2010-07-05 03:41:57

As schen said, any tiling wm should work with the netbook.

Though, if you want something different than awesome, i'd recommend xmonad.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/xmo … _netbooks/

xmonad on olpc machine:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu/~dons/code/xmon … b-olpc.png

schen · 2010-07-05 03:48:46

I personally prefer DWM for lightness, patch application, C, and customization.

Google · 2010-07-05 06:13:17

I am using Awesome on my netbook, I have no complaints. I always use a whole workspace for my browser (Uzbl-tabbed) and a workspace for word processing (abiword-light),

Caedmon · 2010-07-05 07:43:36

After trying out most tiling WMs I could find, I realized I mostly use full screen/monocle view anyway and landed on ratpoison. It is however a matter of taste. I say try them all, but be warned; WM hopping can be addictive.

My favorits are Ratpoison, Musca and DWM.

Watermel0n · 2010-07-05 07:49:21

Yesss! Tiling WM's are the best for a netbook. I made the mistake to install Fedora 13 with KDE4 two days ago.
What I learned
- Fedora Packetmanagement slow and just sucks
- Fedora documentation not half as good as Archs
- KDE sucks and is bloated. (especially on a netbook)
- Tiling WM's are the best to use on a small screen and increase your productivity
Now I have to reinstall Arch today (-:

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ga01f4733 · 2010-07-05 08:34:40

dwm here, netbook 10". chrome urxvt geeqie ooffice leafpad mplayer ncmpcpp zathura and thunar for moving to external disks. more than enough!!!

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Inxsible · 2010-07-05 13:33:24

My favorites are i3 and musca in that order.

kishd · 2010-07-05 13:43:00

I use arch with the standard kde and it works very well on an asus eeepc 1000h. Used to use ratpoison and do no notice much of speed difference.

Mmarzex · 2010-07-05 14:10:09

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I think i'm going to try out a few and then make a choice for a permenant wm.

valium97582 · 2010-07-05 14:22:27

Well, scrotwm and i3 are good options too, but, any TWM you use, you will need to use one which has workspace (many of them :wink: ) support (most nowadays). You will need it .

Google · 2010-07-06 06:25:10

I tried out,

Awesome
Scrotwm
DWM
i3

I gave the most time to Awesome, but I do think Awesome is the best vanilla and even better if you can get around to tweaking it. It is a bit heavier than most other tiling WMs, but there is nothing it can't do.

So far it's my favorite.

scio · 2010-07-06 12:46:25

Google wrote:

I gave the most time to Awesome, but I do think Awesome is the best vanilla and even better if you can get around to tweaking it. It is a bit heavier than most other tiling WMs, but there is nothing it can't do.
So far it's my favorite.

The IRC channel and wiki are both fantastic for Awesome and we even have our resident expert anrxc here who has a great setup he keeps on git. Just be sure to not copy the setup directly as it will NOT work for you. Take parts of it and use it as reference.

http://git.sysphere.org/awesome-configs/

x33a · 2010-07-07 03:30:15

You can also take a look here:

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

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mikesd · 2010-07-07 04:09:58

Awesome is popular. I have used XMonad on a netbook and it works well. At the moment I am using scrotwm on my netbook and it is looking good. Not as many dependencies as XMonad.

cesura · 2010-07-07 04:56:59

Use catwm *nudge*

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100215

arinlares · 2010-07-07 08:41:36

I'm using Awesome on my netbook, and have been fiddling with Subtle, both of which are great window managers (for me, especially because they both have built-in system trays). I use Awesome with titlebars (and the icons from the Zenburn theme that installs from Pacman with Awesome, because the default theme icons just suck), and it feels very much like how I had Openbox set up, with the benefits and power of Awesome's default keybindings.

Subtle is a different beast, however, as it is a manual tiling WM, configured in Ruby (which is much easier to read), and has no titlebars. It runs all programs via keybindings, not menus, and offers an experience similar to what I would imagine a WM like DWM or similar would offer, with the benefits of being able to edit a file and simply reload it (not that I've used DWM, Xmonad, or anything like them). Any way you go, though, you can't go wrong.

BKLive · 2010-07-07 15:40:33

Try euclid-wm in the AUR. It's tiles and has a stack at the bottom (like a task bar) that you can 'minimize' your open windows to. Pretty awesome. And you can resize natively which is neat, especially when your desktop space is limited (10" screen!).

Also, it's .06MB installed.

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