On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Ray Kohler<ataraxia...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Anders Andersson<pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Heh, I just started using dwm myself, and I love it! I wanted to try a >> tiling window manager, and did some basic research and dwm seemed to >> suit me best. I wish I did this switch years ago. I might want to try >> wmii too, mainly because I want the possibility of a grid layout (2x2 >> for example) rather than master+stack. > > I thought I really wanted the grid feature, and was using the very > nice gapless grid patch for a while, until one day I decided to try > doing without it and found I didn't miss it at all.
This is a common pattern, people are convinced that they *really* need "feature" X until they actually do try to live for a while without it (or with a more minimalist / sane alternative), and then realize how little real value it had. We see it with new Plan 9 users *all the time*. uriel > In any case, you > don't need to write that code yourself - it's in suckless wiki. > >
