Tiling Window Managers

Users recommend and discuss tiling window managers like i3, sway, awesomewm, and xmonad as efficient alternatives for window management, sharing configurations and positive experiences.

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Have you tried a tiling wm? I use i3, it's great :-)

sydney6 Aug 25, 2019 View on HN

You may want to give sway a shot. It's like i3wm, but without all off the xorg pain.

chayleaf Oct 10, 2021 View on HN

why not just use something like i3?

massysett Mar 1, 2024 View on HN

Have you tried a tiling window manager like i3?

shric Oct 29, 2024 View on HN

i3/sway was recommended in the post, so yes.

12ian34 Apr 3, 2021 View on HN

have you tried i3 [1]?[1]: https://i3wm.org/

arunc Jan 27, 2018 View on HN

Have you tried i3wm? I switched to it permanently a few years ago and never looked back. Here [0] is my config. Sway [1], a port of i3wm to Wayland, is kind of stable as well.[0] https://bitbucket.org/carun/dot-files/src/tip/.i3-config[1] http://swaywm.org

wsdjeg Jun 27, 2017 View on HN

I think you can have a try with i3-wm

GuiA Nov 8, 2012 View on HN

You might just want to use i3/awesome/xmonad then :)

MistaGobo Nov 12, 2023 View on HN

i3wm might be what you're looking for.