![]() ![]() It seems that xmobar is cheap according to powertop There's no concept of moving to the next workspace and, as such, creating a new one just isn't as easy In particular, creating new workspaces is as natural as breathing: just push to the next one and it will be created on the fly if there isn't one already. E.g. drawing the Geeqie window contents is noticeably slower than with xmonad.Ĭonvenient. It uses XCB, which not all systems support well. Yes, it's a lovely language and everything, but you do need to install hundreds of MB worth of software and learn Haskell, just to use your window manager. With this in mind, I started drawing a table comparing the two window managers: What's more, there are many very useful features I'm used to in xmonad which I haven't been able to find in i3. Using i3 is quite comfortable as far as window management is concerned: manual tiling has its value, even if it's easy to end up with messy and inconvenient layouts which make you spend nearly as much time arranging your windows as you would do with a stacking window manager. It's worth noting that many useful features are by default not bound to keys, so it's a good idea to read the documentation and spend some time configuring i3 instead of relying on the defaults. I did choose to change the home row to something more common and added a few bindings to be able to keep my xmonad habits. 2 ConfigurationĬonfiguring i3 is easy and properly documented. Anyway, dynamic, manual, they're just words after all and there's nothing like giving the window manager a try. Much like Notion, in fact, which is widely advertised as a manual tiling window manager. ![]() ![]() Yet, it obviously acts as a manual one, insofar as it uses containers which you can split horizontally or vertically to your fancy before spawning windows in them. Wikipedia and the i3 website both claim i3 is a dynamic tiling window manager. ![]() 1 Is i3 a manual tiling window manager, though? 1 Is i3 a manual tiling window manager, though?ĭynamic tiling window managers – constrained to layouts – don't suit me as I crave for more freedom in arranging them live. ![]()
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