October 9, 2009, 10:05 am
Like your large monitor but tire of getting everything to just fit on the screen? I got tired of it a while back and switched to wmii, but now I have been trying out xmonad, another tiling window manager.
A tiling window manager arranges your windows in a grid. This maximizes window sizes and prevents any window from obscuring another. In other words, unless you have transparency going on, or switch to a viewing area with no windows open; you won’t see your desktop. Here’s a screenshot courtesy of pbrisbin.
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August 30, 2009, 10:22 am
Want your wmii statusbar to give a bit more information than the defaults? Not all that different than how you pull info into Gnu Screen’s statusbar with scripts/backticks, and pretty simple. See below:.
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May 19, 2009, 3:15 pm
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license.
It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment.
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May 17, 2009, 9:02 am
wmii is a small, dynamic window manager for X11. It is scriptable, has a 9p filesystem interface and supports classic and tiling (acme-like) window management. It aims to maintain a small and clean (read hackable and beautiful) codebase.
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October 20, 2008, 8:48 am
In computing, a tiling window manager is a window manager with an organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, as opposed to the more popular approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor.
There are many TWMs to chose from, below covers the most popular ones around.
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