Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Well, now I'm repeating myself, but I've fallen in love with WMII
lately and it dynamically sizes windows based on how many windows are
open. The problem is some apps are slightly broken vis a vis some of
the protocols, or they do lots of window rezising and respawning,
which can be a pain in that set up. just a curiosity sort of
question.
I'm sure its a fine program and I've heard many good things about
it... just starting to like the mutt a lot. :)
For the "broken apps," you can just use the float mode, if there's some
GUI app you really like that doesn't cope well with wmii. I guess that
kinda defeats the purpose of a tiled WM, but it's a pretty necessary
compromise I think unless you're prepared to do without a whole bunch of
different applications altogether. And it works well in wmii.
Personally, I liked wmii better than Ion3 as I found it easier to use,
but eventually I found it hard to get with the whole Plan9 aspect, which
struck me as introducing a layer of complexity that didn't seem
necessary. Or perhaps it is necessary, but I just didn't really
understand why. I liked trying it out though. I think, in the end,
it's probably not for me. One thing trying those WMs out taught me is
the virtue of standards compliance, which unfortunately too many WMs,
DEs, and apps ignore. Openbox and XFCE are, I think, shining examples
of how well things can work when the windowing environment itself is
100% compliant. They are a pleasure to use because they don't try to
make apps behave the way they think apps should behave, they can be
controlled from the keyboard (especially Openbox -- with keychains and
dynamically generated pipe menus, you never need to reach for the
rodent), and they can be augmented with other standards compliant tools
like Devil's Pie, wmctrl, pypanel, etc.
But as you say, to each his own. And I still want to try out PekWM. :-)
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