Do you use a non-tiling window manager like IceWM or blackbox? I use a patched version of motif window manager and it works really well.
Please share!
I am a proud Openbox user. In the stacking realm, there is nothing quite like Openbox’s customizeability and the great tooling that surrounds it. In particular, opensnap gives me window snapping to the edge of the screen with the mouse, which is sorely missing from most light window managers. Openbox also has really powerful hotkeys (any arbitrary sequence of actions) alongside Emacs-style key chords, which makes it difficult to port my setup to any other environment.
One day, I hope to migrate to labwc, which seems to be carrying Openbox’s banner into the Wayland era. Unfortunately, labwc doesn’t (and probably never will) support key chords and I have not been able to find a suitable replacement for tint2, which I use as my taskbar. Someday…
Here is an old screenshot of mine. Nothing has changed since then.
Emacs user eh? A man (or woman) of culture I see. and great screenshot!
Have you tried sfwbar as a tint2 replacement? It’s rather cool and very customizable.
The sfwbar screenshots did not appeal to me, so I never tried it out. If it’s sufficiently customizeable then it’s worth a shot, I guess.
One of the big issues that I have with all the Wayland panels is that they seem designed for tiling compositors like Sway. More like status bars than task bars. The Windows-style list of open programs is not really necessary for a tiling workflow and this is painfully reflected in the available options. I have bashed Waybar into a decent facsimile of my tint2 config visually, but the actual window list module is just awful.
sfwbar can do pretty much anything, from statusbar to windows like taskbar. It was a bit of a hazzle to set up but the possibilities are there. It comes with some different setups/themes to get you started. Try it out. My favorite when fiddling around with wayland was yambar, but it’s more of a statusbar.
I wonder why you were downvoted
Must’ve been someone from Reddit! 🥁
Good old Openbox all the way. Have an old setup that I return to at times and it’s just great.
What do you mean with non-tiling?
I use xfce4 as wm and ctwm.
Just kwin, although it’s learning some tiling tricks, lately, it’s still a mostly stacking wm. I’m also partial to Window Maker, but it’s showing its age bit.
blackbox is very minimal and does not have many features, but that is more of a tradeoff than a loss. icewm’s nano theme i love the look of it, i first discovered icewm from hearing about artix linux
