Well.. It's not written in haskell but in C (am I right?) and it's configured in a shell script. The configuration is a bit easier, and the bar is included by default, unlike xmonad, which requires xmobar.
@Linuxdirk ... the "line" between "window manager" and "desktop environment" is very fuzzy. One can consider a window manager to be a desktop environment without other GUI tools/elements. Similarly, one can consider a desktop environment to consist of a window manager + n-number of other GUI tools/elements. This perspective is strongly supported by the fact that many use only a window manager as their desktop environment.
@mattsamudio To me a window manager is a single program for managing the windows on your graphics server and its helper applications. A desktop environment to me is a set of programs aligned to work together in the most perfect way (e.g. Metacity WM, Panels, Nautilus, and stuff in Gnome) plus the respective configuration tools (or one single configuration tool like GConf in Gnome and such). One can set up wmii, but the result was not released like that, its still a WM and tools, and no DE.
i dunno if its tiling abilities are far superior to its floating abilities
both are far superior to any other window manager :D
and it has the best menu and wmiirc is a joy and
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
aaanaaanaaanaaanaaa 1 year ago
@vampt3k
gnome is a full pack of applications and also a window manager. wmii is just the window manager. You could use wmii with your gnome applications.
A window manager.. manages the windows. Nothing else.
@Six2Web
Well.. It's not written in haskell but in C (am I right?) and it's configured in a shell script. The configuration is a bit easier, and the bar is included by default, unlike xmonad, which requires xmobar.
LoloftheRings 1 year ago
@vampt3k wmii is not desktop environment, it is a window manager. You can try it and keep Gnome. If you don't like wmii simply uninstall it.
Depending on your distribution wmii maybe is not in the repositories, because it is a highly sophisticated and still relatively small project.
Inform yourself at wmii. suckless. org
Linuxdirk 2 years ago
@Linuxdirk ... the "line" between "window manager" and "desktop environment" is very fuzzy. One can consider a window manager to be a desktop environment without other GUI tools/elements. Similarly, one can consider a desktop environment to consist of a window manager + n-number of other GUI tools/elements. This perspective is strongly supported by the fact that many use only a window manager as their desktop environment.
mattsamudio 4 months ago
@mattsamudio To me a window manager is a single program for managing the windows on your graphics server and its helper applications. A desktop environment to me is a set of programs aligned to work together in the most perfect way (e.g. Metacity WM, Panels, Nautilus, and stuff in Gnome) plus the respective configuration tools (or one single configuration tool like GConf in Gnome and such). One can set up wmii, but the result was not released like that, its still a WM and tools, and no DE.
Linuxdirk 3 months ago
What linux distribution are you using by the way ?
LunaVorax 2 years ago
Its Arch Linux
Linuxdirk 2 years ago
I wonder, how is it compared to xmonad?
Six2Web 2 years ago