I am currently using KDE and it works fine for me. I don’t want to spend days configuring a tiling WM. Is there a TWM that works well out of the box?

  • @curious@lemmy.ml
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    32 years ago

    Is there a TWM that works well out of the box? no

    I love about sway/i3 → my desktop doesn’t change. Once you got everything setup the way you like it, stuff just works. Beside this, switching between applications on different workspaces becomes a natural thing to do. When I think file-manage, my fingers press alt+3 and the focus is on the file manager… that is the magic of tiling window managers.

  • @joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    tbh the main selling point of it is that you can pick and prod and tweak it extensively to make it look and feel EXATLY like you want, for your use case I think you’re more than fine with KDE

  • musicmatze
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    12 years ago

    It works fine for you, as you said. So no need to switch, right?

    I am a Linux power user for over 10 years, used tiling window managers most of the time but switched to KDE Plasma about two years ago and am completely happy with it.

    My advice: if you’re happy, there’s no need to change anything!

    • @Octorine@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      A few years ago, I bought a new computer and when installing the OS on it, I decided that rather than installing XMonad right away like usual I’d leave the default Gnome shell on it and just use that until it annoyed me enough to switch. Surprisingly, it didn’t annoy me, so I’ve just stuck with it ever since.

  • @charlieb@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    I’ve used several TWMs that I loved but ultimately I just went back to gnome. There were a couple of reasons: I got tired of having to configure stuff or at least memorize a bunch of shortcuts and the failed to handle multi-window applications like gimp (in the pre-single window mode days).

    I used dwm, i3 and wmii and they were all usable except for the issues above.

  • @Brattea@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    No, it’s only really a tinkering tool. I prefer free as in free time, so I can actually do work.

  • ✨ krawieck ✨
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    02 years ago

    I personally think it’s worth trying out. I used dwm for a while and it was a pretty pleasant experience

    • @HelixNebula@lemmy.mlOP
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      12 years ago

      I have decided I will test i3 and dwm on my pinebook pro and see if it’s something I want to run on my desktop pc.