wmii window management

I'm using wmii for about two months now. wmii is a tiling window manager with floating window functionality. But of course its tiling abilities are far superior to its floating abilities. By now i totally love tiling. I was Openbox user for most of my Linux experience so far, but i spontaneously changed my mind about this!

See http://wmii.suckless.org/ for more informations on wmii.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• wmii
• gui
• linux
• focus
• mouse
• window management
• tiling

[LunaVorax]

What linux distribution are you using by the way ?

[Linuxdirk]

Its Arch Linux

[Linuxdirk]

@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.

[mattsamudio]

@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.

[aaanaaanaaanaaanaaa]

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

[LoloftheRings]

@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.

[Linuxdirk]

@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

[Six2Web]

I wonder, how is it compared to xmonad?