A Comprehensive Guide To Tiling Window Managers

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@huscat1609
@huscat1609 5 жыл бұрын
Specific tiling window managers overview: 24:18 - dwm 28:36 - xmonad 34:24 - qtile 38:14 - awesome 43:21 - i3 49:32 - herbstluftwn 53:23 - bspwn
@ltxr9973
@ltxr9973 4 жыл бұрын
Most valuable comment
@abdulbasetalhelaly9217
@abdulbasetalhelaly9217 4 жыл бұрын
Bspwn :)
@weedwanker4884
@weedwanker4884 3 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes bsp window nanager
@baguettedad
@baguettedad 3 жыл бұрын
@@weedwanker4884 lnfao
@siljrath
@siljrath 2 жыл бұрын
(as connented on your recent list video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqrWeoapZdKWoJo&lc=UgytCbDerF_y2BHkFnB4AaABAg ) hi dt, when u gona clfswn? features no other wn has, being a paradign beyond. stacking, tiling, treeing. treeing!? yes. ultinate wn for a lisper with enacs/guix/etc. kzbin.info
@KevinBReynolds
@KevinBReynolds 5 жыл бұрын
How much information can be packed into one video? I think DT just set the record. Man! That is one nutrient-dense show brother. Outstanding!
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Kevin. Much appreciated!
@zdazeeeh
@zdazeeeh 4 жыл бұрын
While watching the intro I realized that I basically use floating window managers like tiling window managers because my windows are always either snapped or maximized. Gonna try this, thanks!
@SamuTheFrog
@SamuTheFrog 9 ай бұрын
Same, that's actually what got me into these tiling ones.
@morgulbrut
@morgulbrut 5 жыл бұрын
i run i3 on arch on a thinkpad btw.
@folksurvival
@folksurvival 4 жыл бұрын
You need to wear a Casio f-91w too.
@AkamiChannel
@AkamiChannel 4 жыл бұрын
psshhh i3-gaps
@abhileshxd621
@abhileshxd621 4 жыл бұрын
How is the battery life when using Arch? I used Arch on an ideapad and the battery sucks. Even with either Nvidia Optimus or Nvidia Prime installed.
@abhileshxd621
@abhileshxd621 4 жыл бұрын
@olaf kon yes. Powertop, tlp, laptop-mode. None of them worked. I guess it's the specific model which is not fully supported.
@jeremyjohansson3445
@jeremyjohansson3445 4 жыл бұрын
@@abhileshxd621 Do You run the latest kernel? Not the LTS for example...
@sleepyeyesvince
@sleepyeyesvince 5 жыл бұрын
Epic video! I only got into tiling WMs because of you mate. Thank you for the hard work in making these vids.
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! :D
@XDjUanZInHO
@XDjUanZInHO 4 жыл бұрын
@@DistroTube honestly, if it wasn't you, I'd be stuck on i3 until today, bspwm has already helped me a lot and I'm looking foward to going into qtile or dwm
@waywardspirit7898
@waywardspirit7898 3 жыл бұрын
Every time I think I have reached a climax on my knowledge of computer system and there is NOTHING left to learn, you teach me something else.
@Svampebob1
@Svampebob1 2 ай бұрын
I've been in the game as a professional for 25 years. If you think you don't have anything left to learn, then you are finished 😂. And this has gotten a lot worse over the years, since computer science is evolving faster and faster
@waywardspirit7898
@waywardspirit7898 2 ай бұрын
@@Svampebob1 It was mostly sarcasm. Dry humor. There is no way anybody knows all there is to know. :)
@Svampebob1
@Svampebob1 2 ай бұрын
@@waywardspirit7898 I should have gotten that... Seems like I was the dumb one here 🤣
@waywardspirit7898
@waywardspirit7898 2 ай бұрын
@@Svampebob1 😁
@corrupt_
@corrupt_ 3 жыл бұрын
Super informative video! I've been using tiling WMs for over 15 years now and still learned something. Also really well presented with these VMs and matching backgrounds. Just a really great video.
@3rikGames
@3rikGames 5 жыл бұрын
Very great video for everyone who's new to tiling wms and tries to figure out which one to start with. I really like how discuss every wm completely unbiased.
@cleanclothes
@cleanclothes 4 жыл бұрын
This is really comprehensive and more than deserve its title. Thank you so much for putting your time making this video DT!
@migue7490
@migue7490 5 жыл бұрын
I'm at work waiting until windows decides to show me the desktop, so I will finish to watch your video. I had i3 with polybar showing all workspaces, even the empty ones. Great video dt!
@goldibollocks
@goldibollocks 3 жыл бұрын
After watching a lot of your videos on different tiling window managers, I finally tried one and installed qtile. It's quite a different workflow from the well-known Windows/KDE/Gnome one I used all my life, but it's kinda cool! I got used to the shortcuts quite quickly and liked the whole concept of having separate desktops for separate tasks instead of all your windows on just one. Sure, that was possible before with workspaces but for some reason I never used that feature in any of the floating window DEs before. Tiling kinda forces you into it, which is nice!
@themanwhosings-v3n
@themanwhosings-v3n 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed Even I'm exploring Qtile after working with KDE
@hanspetervollhorst1
@hanspetervollhorst1 5 жыл бұрын
Definition: Tiling Window Managers arrange windows non-overlapping. First thing you show on qtile 5 minutes later: The monocle layout that arranges the windows in an overlapping manner
@habituallearner7680
@habituallearner7680 3 жыл бұрын
This is just what I needed. Your content is always packed with common sense and you teach in a practical way. Thank you.
@estudiordl
@estudiordl 4 жыл бұрын
I tried almost all, and settled on i3. For me was the straight forward the easyest to config and use. 😃
@Gabifuertes
@Gabifuertes 4 жыл бұрын
I've never used a TWM but after watching this I'm excited to try qtile, awesome and i3. I liked dwm/awesome "tags", xmonad/qtile multi monitor config (a single set of workspaces that switch if you select one open on another monitor), and i3's idea that workspaces don't exist if they're not open or have windows in it. As a reminder to myself, I want to try: • After having 2 windows 50/50 open a third one on the bottom side of the screen. • Have a window show up in multiple workspaces at the same time, and those workspaces showing at the same time on different monitors. (For example, to show clients stuff in an office where you have a monitor pointing at them.) This one might be a little bit trickier if possible at all. If it is, it would be more flexible than just mirroring the screen.
@luizansounds
@luizansounds 2 жыл бұрын
How this comment turned out 2 years later?
@nightfox6738
@nightfox6738 2 жыл бұрын
I actually started with dwm as my first tiling window manager, but I've been running unix systems for almost 20 years and archlinux for over 10. I installed dwm on a vm and played around with it. It was tough at first but the more I played with it the more I liked it. I now run dwm on my daily driver and absolutely love it. That being said, I will advise if you're going to run something like dwm or xmonad as your first tiling window manager, install it on a vm first! learn it in an environment where you don't shoot yourself in the foot if you can't remember how to do something.
@sirdiealot7805
@sirdiealot7805 5 жыл бұрын
I started with Awesome and am on i3 since a couple years. Pretty vanilla even, a few changed shortcuts and when I move a window I also switch focus along with it, since this is what I more often want. More advanced stuff such as saving/restoring windows can get ugly.
@IuliusPsicofactum
@IuliusPsicofactum 5 жыл бұрын
Gaps. For the people who enjoy watching a 5% of their wallpapers :P
@rcmgs7055
@rcmgs7055 4 жыл бұрын
Smug Anime Girl picom is considered non bloat
@joaopauloalbq
@joaopauloalbq 4 жыл бұрын
The transparency itself is BLOAT!
@krozareq
@krozareq 4 жыл бұрын
It's not bloat if you desire it. That's the opposite of bloat. Bloat is things you don't want that are forced on you.
@ericchagasdeoliveira4177
@ericchagasdeoliveira4177 3 жыл бұрын
idc how stupid it is, seing ~5% of my wallpaper brings me confort, aint nobody taking that from me pal
@anantgupta7916
@anantgupta7916 3 жыл бұрын
Transparency who want to see their wallpaper
@fuseteam
@fuseteam 4 жыл бұрын
k for up~ l for right~ j for down~ h for left~ some guy: wtf this guy can't spell
@lot5602
@lot5602 4 жыл бұрын
oh vim, the cat who killed my mouse
@andrewpalm2103
@andrewpalm2103 5 жыл бұрын
I'm using HerbstLuftWM and enjoying it. FYI, you don't need to open a new "frame" to add a second window as Derek did. For example, using Mod+Return opens a second terminal in the current frame, similar to other tilers. Using Mod+Tab then cycles through some pre-defined layouts within that frame. So you don't need frames for simple setups, which saves a few keystrokes. Also, you can easily create, save, and recall additional layouts. For this reason I find HL to have a nice combination properties. The most challenging aspect was setting up a panel, especially getting it situated on the screen. For a panel I use a bash script with dzen plus stalonetray for a system tray. This was either fun to set up or a pain to set up, depending. A quick and dirty approach is to use xfce4-panel, which works quite well with HL.
@douglashenri5017
@douglashenri5017 5 жыл бұрын
I'm using hlwm as well and I agree. It is a wonderful window manager, but setting up the bar was a nightmare, since I'm new to shell scripting and, quite frankly, their configuration scripts are not the best documented things I've seen. Ended up giving up on dzen2 and now I'm using polybar.
@CombatCoder
@CombatCoder 5 жыл бұрын
I use HLWM with lemon bar for the panel. Never got the fonts to work with dzen2 and found lemonbar. So much easier to get correct alignments for the text.
@gotbletu
@gotbletu 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks i learn some new stuff, might have to try these out if i ever get multi monitor setup again; lols thats alot of dedication to learn all these Tilers that mainly does the same things
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sir. Big fan of your channel! Yes, these tilers mostly do the same thing. The main differences is how they do workspaces (each monitor has its own workspaces or are all workspaces shared amongst the monitors), how they treat multi-monitors (with workspace swapping or not) and the programming language that they are written in.
@gotbletu
@gotbletu 5 жыл бұрын
@@DistroTube Oh cool, i'll take it, usually people hate my channel lols. Yea think that what was missing in i3wm, back then dont think u can have workspace per monitor, it was all shared, not sure if that has changed now. Havent use it in a few years.
@ritual301
@ritual301 5 жыл бұрын
@@gotbletu "usually people hate my channel lols." No way man, I don't believe it. Big fan of your channel, as well. You're an OG
@gotbletu
@gotbletu 5 жыл бұрын
@@ritual301 hehe maybe you are right, is changing now, guess im grandfathered in as "ok" linux channels nowadays. My reward for being around so long and outlasting all the old OG.
@kickbuttowsk2i
@kickbuttowsk2i 5 жыл бұрын
you are the one who introduced me to tmux, fzf, surfraw, w3m, mutt, cmus, transmission. If it wasn't for your channel, I never used Linux to its full capability and pls keep posting your vids.
@geeshta
@geeshta 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the explanation and showcase. I'm staying with Compiz with its fancy eye-candy animations and use Grid to tile if I need to.
@randomness3235
@randomness3235 4 жыл бұрын
i3wm is my favourite WM of choice, great for multi-monitor support and I use it at home, work and on my laptops. Composite window managers now feel like a thing of the past.
@edbeckerich3737
@edbeckerich3737 3 жыл бұрын
DT at his BEST!!! Great instructional video!!
@alexwild4350
@alexwild4350 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent and highly informative discussion from the ground up on Window Managers. If your interested in understanding tiling window managers, this is the video to watch. So good, I've subbed to the channel.
@AkamiChannel
@AkamiChannel 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing work, and very helpful. I know that this video took a lot of time to make and I appreciate it.
@badwolf8112
@badwolf8112 3 жыл бұрын
1:14 O M G i already have one, it was there the whole time! my conception of reality has fundamentally been shifted
@dang2157
@dang2157 2 жыл бұрын
This was the wm intro I've been looking for!!! Covers everything! Thank you
@dannyvillaroel219
@dannyvillaroel219 4 жыл бұрын
This video was so helpful! More people need to see this as a resource. Really cleared things up for me. Thanks DistroTube!
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 4 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!
@BradenBest
@BradenBest 2 жыл бұрын
for my DWM, I actually have a shell script running as the primary X client rather than DWM. The shell script sets the root window name to the current time and date, which DWM shows at the top, and among other things, the shell script also uses two FIFO pipes for reading and writing. commands coming in through the read pipe are interpreted by the script and if the command isn't one of the few hard-coded commands (like q or r), then it looks in a directory for a script with the same name as the command and executes it. On the DWM side, I replaced the usual program spawning keybinds with writes the to read pipe. So alt+shift+enter, rather than calling execve on gnome-terminal or whatever the default is, writes "terminal" to the read pipe, which causes the terminal shell script to run, which opens a terminal. I also added a custom dmenu binding for issuing those commands, which is populated with the contents of the script directory. So if I want to add a new script, I don't even have to recompile DWM. I can just add a shell script and then call it via the dmenu binding. It's a complex system and one I've been meaning to rewrite in C for quite a while, but it works and I don't have to recompile DWM for small things. A lot of the things that I change frequently, I've outsourced into files that DWM reads at runtime. For example, I can change the tag names by just editing a 9-line text file and hitting mod+r or something. I forget what I bound it to. But I can do it without recompiling or even restarting dwm. Modding that behavior into DWM wasn't hard to my memory. IIRC I just had to write a function to read the file and populate the tags array, add it to the setup function, and then add a hook somewhere in the drw pipeline so that when the tags change, they change on-screen, too. so then the binding just has to trigger that function to read the file.
@williambarrett7108
@williambarrett7108 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your help on my journey. I really enjoy these videos that you spend the time to make for us all. I will and have, enjoyed every one.
@siedhuss
@siedhuss 5 жыл бұрын
I want to thank you for this informative video and all your invested time into this.
@thenextpoetician6328
@thenextpoetician6328 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. Here's hoping more people get turned on to twm's. It was your video on Regolith that got me started on twm's. I'm hooked, and there's no turning back. i3 in Mint replaced Regolith though it had some snags, so I turned to ArcoLinux i3/Xfce/OpenBox, and it's my daily driver now and I've only loaded Xfce and OP for a few minutes. I'm chipping away at Qtile and Awesome, and go back to i3 Mint and sometimes Mint running Cinnamon, which is where I started on GNU/Linux last winter.
@marksamuel5872
@marksamuel5872 5 жыл бұрын
You are so funny in an operator type of way. "Screen Real Estate..." that cracks me up. Absolutely true. Your who mind set is almost absolutely logical. Ha..ha..... thanks for your kind and excellent lessons. I am thinking more about reaching using these tiling managers more all I use now is tmux. I like it.
@burpsan
@burpsan 2 жыл бұрын
Keep coming back to this. I've gotten used to the multi-monitors you mentioned (using qtile) ... I can't imagine doing anything else.
@mecrumbly429___4
@mecrumbly429___4 4 жыл бұрын
My personal favorite is AwesomeWM. But for window managers in general, OpenBox is the best in my opinion. Or take that a step further with lxde/qt (I prefer LXQt over LXDe)
@migue7490
@migue7490 5 жыл бұрын
I liked just for the video preview, I'll watch the video now. Twm are amazing.
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sir.
@jeetadityachatterjee6995
@jeetadityachatterjee6995 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the help. You and your config is what is getting me to switch from gnome! Thanks again
@kevinklement2621
@kevinklement2621 5 жыл бұрын
Derek you gotta get a different video card so you can do one of these for the Wayland based tiling window managers, like Sway, Way-Cooler, bspwc, waymonad, etc. Need some future looking content!
@devon660
@devon660 5 жыл бұрын
Comparison starts at 24:17
@SamuTheFrog
@SamuTheFrog 9 ай бұрын
Wow, a whole hour of information of this degree. That took some work, dude. Damn.
@wiz3905
@wiz3905 Жыл бұрын
👍 Great instructional tile wm Video. Thank you aa bunch. I'll be watching this video over & over.!
@mecrumbly429___4
@mecrumbly429___4 4 жыл бұрын
just remember that, if you're learning of tilling window managers for the first time, the wallpapers and configurations are not the defaults. almost all of them will start with a black wallpaper.
@alexthirlwall9833
@alexthirlwall9833 4 жыл бұрын
Very much appreciate your knowledge and experience! I learned a ton.
@WilliamShinal
@WilliamShinal 6 ай бұрын
For people on Windows 7, Plumb's default style switches from side-by-side to left master to equal screen filling, and lets you switch positions by dragging to your desired location. It also naturally respects fullscreen if you hit the button or an actual fullscreen application takes over. Another option is bug.n which comes with its own taskbar.
@samsh0-q3a
@samsh0-q3a 3 жыл бұрын
I just love having a sort of hybrid setup, makes sure it can "do it all" but with the efficiency on demand.
@bahathir_
@bahathir_ 5 жыл бұрын
I tried many window managers, and evilwm is my favorite. :) Thanks for the very informative video about tiling window manager..
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sir.
@tonynguyen725
@tonynguyen725 5 жыл бұрын
all those pretty cores on htop
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
:D
@pascal7947
@pascal7947 5 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a video about/including StumpWM.
@arnoldlevy8170
@arnoldlevy8170 4 жыл бұрын
Haha this video.... No really, the guy who wants you to learn something. So many information, explained a very simple way. This is why I like DT : he just want you to understand, he doesn't want you to be impressed. That is the main reason of his success and I want him to continue.
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Kagara777
@Kagara777 4 жыл бұрын
Great job on this video DT.
@jgaming2069
@jgaming2069 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all the information. If it wasnt for all these videos from linux youtubers Id still be on windows.
@syrefaen
@syrefaen 5 жыл бұрын
Watched the video in dwm. I had sway and waybar, i am quite sure it was more dynamic then your i3. It was on the Arch install but now this pc is on Gentoo, so I cant check.
@motif5775
@motif5775 4 жыл бұрын
Very informative video. I like how you teach. Thank you. One question tho: the colorful bar at the top right of your screen...does that come with any of the window managers? I noticed you using it to change your window options. I think that's pretty cool 😎.
@fuseteam
@fuseteam 4 жыл бұрын
_installed dwm_ _logged out_ _switches to dwm_ _logs in_ now do i open my terminal _scratches head_ uuuhhhh i'll log out and duck duck go it :3 .............. how do i logout? o.O i probably needed dmenu lol nope just needed to learn the shortcuts now just need to figure out how to enable transparency and vim bindings lol
@baovu3488
@baovu3488 4 жыл бұрын
+1 to xmonad. Fixed my problem with Java apps with 1 line startupHook = setWMName "LG3D"
@AnzanHoshinRoshi
@AnzanHoshinRoshi 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Derek. Quite comprehensive.
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Anzan!
@vanacksabbadium2024
@vanacksabbadium2024 4 жыл бұрын
Really nice video, keep up with this good work!
@imrufarko8467
@imrufarko8467 5 жыл бұрын
Which file should i look in your dwm config for this beautiful tag and window indicator color?
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 5 жыл бұрын
config.h
@leo-rq2ei
@leo-rq2ei 4 жыл бұрын
wow I can’t believe you sold me to xmonad
@thenextpoetician6328
@thenextpoetician6328 5 жыл бұрын
I installed Nemo in ArcoLinux because Thunar was starting to bug me, and selected to integrate terminal into Nemo. I set it to load 30 lines to accommodate Neofetch and the Figlet with Lolcat above and animated plain text message with Lolcat below. Really handy. Haven't figured out if I can add transparency to the terminal. That would be the cat's ass.
@KereellOlorin
@KereellOlorin 5 жыл бұрын
Where is Sway ?? I'm using it for a long time and it's cool!
@r3ddr4gon80
@r3ddr4gon80 5 жыл бұрын
Its wayland, he doesn't do wayland :). I also use sway and think its great, but since its basically a rewrite of i3 with a view neat mouse features on top, it would have been kind of redundant.
@rtvdenys
@rtvdenys Жыл бұрын
I'd love to use a tiling window manager and I did use it at work rather successfully. For home use it was a failure, however. The reason is that I regularly need to switch between 3-4 keyboard layouts and that requires a Mac-like or Gnome3-like switcher (anything else is a sadistic insanity). Tiling window managers, however, do not care about keyboard layout at all and their authors suggest using shortcuts to call setxkbmap, which simply won't do. So here I am, using Gnome3 of all things.
@Ax4400
@Ax4400 Жыл бұрын
Love this video! Hi DT, found antiX & am loving this Debian Based lite distro its clean fast flexibility w/ice, Flux, jwm WMs Provides ease of use w tiling & kb shortcuts for learning. Traded Garuda in for antiX🤣 Chking here for your view of antiX, It's a worth while distro to explore customizing options video, from kernel recompile to installing preferred Apps and nothing else which I know you love doing.
@user-a10
@user-a10 3 жыл бұрын
subtitled but I watched your film totally, thx. This may help me much later.
@angelnavarro476
@angelnavarro476 4 жыл бұрын
If you are not a programmer, as you said in a video, why do you always show just terminal windows? I think that it could be more educational to show how other programs look in those TWM, an average user don't use just terminal with the htop, neofetch of something like that all time
@Jono997
@Jono997 3 жыл бұрын
I think it was just for convenience's sake. Terminals are quick to open and I think he has a keyboard shortcut to open one immediately. Though yeah, seeing how other types of applications would fare would have been nice.
@kuttispielt7801
@kuttispielt7801 2 жыл бұрын
it won’t be that different from a floating window manager. A full screen window is going to be a fullscreen window. And half screen windows are going to be like snapping your windows to the side on popular desktop environments.
@tyafizi
@tyafizi 2 жыл бұрын
He can be not a programmer and use cli utils over gui ones
@dcngn_
@dcngn_ 2 жыл бұрын
Fair point imo. The first time I went in and tried a window manager, I was annoyed by - pop up windows that require immediate short interactions changing the whole layout - windows that are supposed to be tiny taking up space and becoming less user friendly due to weird button/text spacing There are probably ways to handle that by customization. Now that I've become accustomed to vim / keyboard heavy interaction and I'm pretty excited to try them again. Once I get used to them I'm sure it will be super satisfying. Every time I need to reach my mouse I get a little irritated these days.
@nikkehtine
@nikkehtine 5 жыл бұрын
I don't think tiling window managers have much purpose. The traditional "stacking" ones have tiling functionality and virtual desktops anyway, and you can easily set keyboard shortcuts for operating windows in KDE, Gnome or XFCE. Tiling wm also look pretty raw and old out-of-the-box without a lot of customization, which can be off-putting for those same people who want to save time using keyboard instead of mouse, but don't want to waste time writing configs. If the tiling functionality in the stacking layout is not enough for you, there are user scripts that enhance the tiling functionality.
@douglashenri5017
@douglashenri5017 5 жыл бұрын
In my workflow I need to change workspaces independently on each monitor. I know of no DE that can do it, they all seem to follow this bad specification that says that a workspace must span all monitors. I tried herbstluftwn and I cannot go back to XFCE now.
@lutherus9313
@lutherus9313 5 жыл бұрын
I am making video on how tiling wm's help me focus on work as a person who has ADHD.
@Priva_C
@Priva_C 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir!!
@lutherus9313
@lutherus9313 5 жыл бұрын
@@Priva_C subscribe please to stay up to date
@cyberp0et
@cyberp0et 2 жыл бұрын
I prefer Lxde desktop environment. Very lightweight.
@trailblazingfive
@trailblazingfive 4 жыл бұрын
What an amazing video; I'll probably first do the vim tutor and then jump into a tiling manager; by the way config written in python is so ugly :o. Thank you for putting all the work into making your stunning videos this some serious S++ class stuff!
@NickBair316
@NickBair316 5 жыл бұрын
I recently started using i3 on Ubuntu using the Regolith installer. Running this on my MacBook Air (2010).
@jazzz4988
@jazzz4988 2 жыл бұрын
I use arch with dwm btw But in all seriousness, please post your minimalistic WM setups!
@danieleccleston7928
@danieleccleston7928 3 жыл бұрын
Tiling window managers got me thinking when you minimize something in a floating wm it's still running in the background right? So similarly switching workspaces in a TWM does that too?
@peppe540
@peppe540 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks DT, (still) a great video! Currently started with Awesome (on Arcolinux) and it is really cool to use. What i wanted to ask you: suppose you set up sxhkd and polybar completely to your liking, could you apply that to any WM? And just take out menubar and key-specific entries in their respective config files? It would save a lot of configuration time when switching, as long as I can add them to the autostart entry. Do you have ever tried or applied that? Keep up the good stuff!
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 4 жыл бұрын
Sxhkd and polybar are bloat when almost all window managers manage their own hotkeys and most window managers have a built-in panel.
@peppe540
@peppe540 4 жыл бұрын
@@DistroTube Well, I have it all configured inside Awesome now (theme and rc.lua ) and it sure is a great lightweight config. Very fast and all functionality I was looking for. No reason for bloat indeed.
@74Bagas
@74Bagas 2 жыл бұрын
today guys, today.... finally i have some balls to use twm. so far so good with leftwm.
@menzokruizinga
@menzokruizinga 4 жыл бұрын
I finally tried awesome wm and love it
@yvindeikeland6404
@yvindeikeland6404 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video, very informative
@aviglozman
@aviglozman 4 жыл бұрын
DT, if qtile and xmonad are almost the same, why pick xmonad when it seems like configuration via Python is easier? Are there any major benefits? Is documentation for qtile worse? Is it less reliable/slower?
@닐리아담
@닐리아담 2 жыл бұрын
Haskell is completely badass.
@deluc6821
@deluc6821 4 жыл бұрын
How much do you think a non-programmer will benefit from a wm? (someone who needs to work on several documents at a time and is not alien to linux and computers in general)
@mutska
@mutska 4 жыл бұрын
This video is SUPER GREAT!
@DistroTube
@DistroTube 4 жыл бұрын
Appreciate that!
@AssWhole-u6d
@AssWhole-u6d 5 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@diegonayalazo
@diegonayalazo 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@willywantoknow2563
@willywantoknow2563 Жыл бұрын
i3 vs awesome 🤔 im going in deeper and deeper with🐧 thanks to you.
@IsaacTLinder
@IsaacTLinder 3 жыл бұрын
I am loving your videos DT! I also see all of your audio gear. Is this just for recording your vids or do you do any music recording? I'm personally trying to get a better linux setup for doing live-coded music, specifically Supercollider and Tidal Cycles. Both have plugins for most IDEs. As such, I'm trying to get out of my 30 years of Mac and Windows and figure out the best state I can do this with Window Managers, Neovim, Doom Emacs and still default to Atom until I learn the ins and outs of Vim or Emacs. Quite honestly, Emacs of any flavor has too many key-chords to do some stuff quickly with either Supercollider or Tidal - at least from what I know how to do. Neovim works better for this it seems. If you aren't familiar, that may not make sense - but basically code driven synthesis and music.
@jimharris6213
@jimharris6213 6 ай бұрын
AWESOME!!!! Thank you. I am on Debian 12 (Wayland) and use nano. I would like use a dynamic window manager with no more than 5 work areas and the ability to float a calculator. Due to space constraints, I have no external monitors at the moment. Which would you suggest and can you show us how to set it up with the required programs that you mentioned that are needed? Last, I have the ability to switch to Xorg too.
@bloxshortsdaily971
@bloxshortsdaily971 2 жыл бұрын
I run i3 on Arch on Thinkpad T420.
@chillbro2275
@chillbro2275 3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful guide! Thanks DT. Question. If the config files are written in languages, how do you make it an executable, and what calls that executable?
@shail0124
@shail0124 2 жыл бұрын
You have to recompile and install it in system
@moisessoto5061
@moisessoto5061 4 жыл бұрын
8:30 Thats some awesome info, thanks DT
@erichanson5628
@erichanson5628 Жыл бұрын
Thank You for the excellent information!
@yousefkhaled2
@yousefkhaled2 2 жыл бұрын
amazing prof video!
@prash2011ify
@prash2011ify 4 жыл бұрын
Hi DT, I've been watching many of your videos over the past few months. I must say - I like them. While I had moved to linux a long time ago (in 1999) - I've predominantly stuck with Stacking Window Managers - like KDE, MATE, CINAEMON, GNOME 2.x etc. I was intrigued after seeing couple of your videos on Tiling Window Managers. I wanted to try out a few of them. I have installed a few (including xmonad, i3, Awesome etc). And I could configure them by taking a look at some of your videos. But I'm facing a different kind of problem. I have CP - and due to my disability - I cannot use key combinations of any kind. I can only press one key at a time. I also have problems in using the mouse. In such a situation - when I log into a Tiling Window Manager - I'm unable to get anything done - as I'm not able to use any of the key combinations (even if everything were to be configured and given to me). I know - my case could be a one-off. But I'd like to know your thoughts on how I could deal with this Problem. So the larger question is - What additional configuration might be required - in order to make a Tiling Window Manager more Accessible for persons with Disabilities (like myself)? Just to share with you..... In my initial days with linux - I have had many issues / problems (nearly all of them related to Accessibility). But over the years - the situation has improved. A few of the Heavier Desktop Environments come with a set of Accessibility Options. I've always had to play around with these options - before using any of the Apps / their features. Do Tiling Window Managers come with any (generic) set of Accessibility options? If so, can you mention what packages need to be installed? And how one needs to Configure the Tiling Window Manager for greater Accessibility? I'm sure you'll tackle this query in one of your future videos. But if you take my suggestion - I guess you could do an entire video on Linux Desktop Accessibility. I mean - why not? :)
@icristian6707
@icristian6707 4 жыл бұрын
What is the point of going through so much trouble of setting up a wm instead of full de when the thing everybody installs and use alot - web browser - requires gtk3 ? (For regular desktop use not programming and so on)
@DJChakal
@DJChakal 3 жыл бұрын
If anyone comes across this comment, isn't used to tiling wms and wants to give em a try, you should try out pop os, they have a tiling mode, but are still using gnome as a DE, its very noob-friendly and can get you used to TWMs really quickly!
@fuseteam
@fuseteam 4 жыл бұрын
16:00 automatic, manual and dynamic :3
@udayyadav5017
@udayyadav5017 3 жыл бұрын
Just what i needed
@xtnctr
@xtnctr 4 жыл бұрын
Tks, man. Great job. Great contribution.
@MarkLeonTanner
@MarkLeonTanner 4 жыл бұрын
I've tried them all, and always return to dwm... No patches...
@gctypo2838
@gctypo2838 2 жыл бұрын
43:31 I've never felt so called out in my life.
@JavierD
@JavierD Жыл бұрын
A lot of info, thanks! Q: After installing i3 and Awesome I lost my keyboard configuration as well as my theme, etc; is that expected? And if so, Is there a way to use the same keyboard layout and shortcuts as I had in my DE? I'm using Linux mint
@lam8322
@lam8322 Жыл бұрын
Hey DT, where can I get those wallpapers, the texture look awesome
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