Re: [vim-geeks] Window Managers

[Cryptic Swarm]

I use Awesome as my window manager.  It has a similar tagging approach as wmii.

Below are a few other tiling window managers that I have looked at in the past.

## Tiling Window managers

* Dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/)

* Awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) -- Descendant of Dwm. Tagging approach to windows. Scripted in Lua.

* Xmonad -- Descendant of Dwm.  Scriptable in Haskell.

* i3 (http://i3wm.org/) -- Modal window management.  Supports tabbing windows. Different modes change key bindings.

* Ion -- Supports tabbing.  No longer under development.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Nathan Neff <natha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is cool -- I'm a big fan of Tiling Window managers, (my favorite
> being wmii).

The reason I mention wmii is that it also has the concept of "views", similar
to Tmux's "windows".  Users can define multiple views.  A view can have multiple
programs running in it, similar to Tmux's panes.  Different views can
have the *same*
applications running in them.  Below is an illustration:

View 1: "Code"

Text Editor | Terminal

View 2: "Test"

Text Editor | Firefox

View 3: "Debug"

Text Editor | Firefox
                 ------------
                 | terminal

Anyway, thanks for the post about tmux.  I liked GNU Screen
better than tmux last time I tried tmux, because of something with GNU Screen
handling the "full screen" mode better.  I read Mark's notes about
the fullscreen, and maybe tmux fixed it.  We'll see!

> A short plug about wmii is that you can install it easy on Ubuntu.
> Back to tmux though --
> I work mainly on Macs as well as using SSH, so I'm tempted to use tmux because
> I don't want to use a different Window Manager on my Linux VMs, and it
> would be very nice
> to keep a terminal session open on the Linux VM to automagically have
> it ready to go
> without having to re-create sessions.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My article on tmux is finally out. You can find it at
>> http://sett.ociweb.com/sett/settJan2013.html.
>>
>> --
>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Object Computing, Inc.

[Nathan Neff]

I like WMII because you could "tag" a certain application with two or more
term. That was my favorite feature. It's sort of like Eclipse's "perspectives"
(gack I never thought I'd speak nicely of Eclipse).

[Randy Hancock]

Awesome user here. Although I'm stuck on a PC at my job I do all my work on a linux vm running awesome. It's great. Highly recommend. Sometime soon they might give me a Mac. While I'll be glad to have my host OS be a real Unix-like system, I'm not sure I'll want to give up the Awesome. Anyone running a tiling window manager on Mac?