2005 - 11 - 01

Window Managing

Over the past couple of months, I have been using a new window manager under Linux. It's called wmii. It is currently attempting to approach the interface of the not quite dead Plan 9. What makes it useful is the keybindings for everything, and a model for organizing the windows that makes sense.

I normally used the tiled layout when I'm doing my work. You have one main window that takes up most of the vertical space, and all the subordinate windows running along the side. To pull a window to the main takes just a slap of a key and the focus follows. The sloppy focus is some of the best I've seen as well. Also the developers are concerned about the quality of their code. Each new snapshot actually decreases the amount of code they have while still adding features.

If you have a *nix box and are looking for a new window mangager. I would defineitly try it out. It's a bit weird to get used too but it still has a much smaller learning curve than ion or evilwm.

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