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Window manager dwm6/12/2023 Over the years, some using i3 and others using dwm, I have found my productivity remain relatively static. Or at least one we associate with focus, minimalism, and/or getting things done. The following screenshot, from Wikipedia, demonstrates this for xfce.įrom my experience, many have associated the move to tiling managers as a more hardcore approach to interacting with Linux. These window managers give us floating windows that can overlap and be moved into any format on our screens. Especially those of us that have a history with OSX (mac) or Windows. Stacked window managers, on the other hand, are what we conventionally think of. The following screenshot, from Wikipedia, demonstrates this for i3. They (typically, by default) do not allow windows to stack or overlap. Tiled are commonly composed of several “workspaces”, which can be switched through and host one or many windows, tiled side-by-side. Window managers come in two, primary, varieties. Before diving too deep into my day-to-day workflow, let’s set some primer around window managers. Your computer, whether running Ubuntu or Arch, can flip a switch to run a very capable, heavy-weight manager such as KDE or a manager with a binary size of ~1mb, such as dwm. The fact that we’re afforded these choices around window managers is what draws many of us in initially.
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