Hi there, I’m looking at floating window mangers as an in-between of DEs and escaping configuration hell (somewhat) of tiling Window Managers.

Specifically, I was looking at IceWM and OpenBox, but would love recommendations and discussion on what you like and why.

Cheers!

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      1 year ago

      Do you have an image at hand that showcases that layout? The only images I am finding from a little DDG’ing are similar to XMonad’s XMonad.Layout.ThreeColumns, but I am not sure if that is what you are looking for.

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        1 year ago

        Master-slave layout essentially splits your screen into just two windows. Any new window opening gets automatically assigned as the new master and other windows get demoted to slave and moved down the stack.

        I also quite like the stack layout dwm offers. It allows me to navigate through my windows with just up and down keys instead of left/right + up/down.

        I’ve looked for dwm alternatives before but haven’t found anything that does everything dwm does. XMonad is interesting but seems daunting to set up (also Haskell)

        EDiT: A quick search tells me that you can indeed have a master-slave layout on XMonad.