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herbstluftwm mentions (8)

• Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

  It's exactly how it works but only if you have mutliple screens. My comment was that, for this reason, 2 or 3 smaller (ish- ~27") 16:9 4k screens [1] (previously, 4–6 even smaller 4:3 screens) works much better for me because I can switch the spaces on my Macbook and i3/Sway virtual desktops on my Linux machine individually for each screen. If we're talking about having a smaller number of giant screens it would... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?

  The nicities that I pull would be the file browser from ROX, and a tiling window manager such as herbstluftwm. I could do everything I do today without these, such as with a terminal or OpenBSD's 'cwm', but I really enjoy using them! Source: over 1 year ago

• Berry is a healthy, byte-sized window manager written in C for Unix systems

  While people are discussing window managers, one of the most overlooked window manager is: hersbtluftwm.[0] If you even work with multiple monitors, give it a try. It uses the monitor swapping feature from xmonad but comes with simplicity of editing the config (one doesn't need to learn new programming language to edit config). It's a pretty cool window manager! [0]: https://herbstluftwm.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Looking for a FancyZones-like tiling manager for Linux

  Herbstluftwm (https://herbstluftwm.org/) has two ways to achieve what you want. And it plays nice with XFCE (and probably KDE) so you don't have to give up a traditional DE to use it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Desktop environments on new operating system. (Debian 11 Bullseye)

  I can forgive not including tiling WMs like i3, notion, and herbstluftwm because tiling WMs are, by nature, not very photogenic. But leaving out KDE Plasma, WindowMaker, amiwm, or Enlightenment too? I want my money back! :). Source: over 2 years ago

JWM mentions (3)

• Desktop Environments preferred by various distributions, over time

  More data than I expected, OpenBSD also preferred jwm for a short time. Source: over 1 year ago

• Windows or debian for a potato laptop

  Absolutely yes - I had a very, really old toshiba satellite A50 from 2006 or so, I just can't remember the year, maybe older, but it is really old (it still is somewhere around here, although I've never used it anymore) running debian 32 bits with jwm (I prefer this over openbox or other minimalist DE - this is something where you should take some time trying, to see which it's best for you and for that machine). Source: over 2 years ago

• debian 32bit w/openbox on a 17 yr old intel pentium 4 single core cpu....linux is amazing

  Last time I tried Debian on a computer with only 512MB, I ended up with JWM as the window manager. Source: over 2 years ago