![]() ![]() That left me with more room for the editors and browsers I wanted to use. When I was using an eee pc with 1 GB RAM it made quite a difference if the memory was occupied to 660 MB or 230 MB. ![]() Xfce and other lightweight environments are great on older or weaker machines, but dwm uses (in my case) about 1/3 of resources compared to Xfce after login. Efficiencyĭwm is efficient if you want to save as much power as you can on your computer. You can group windows by tags and by selecting a tag, you display all the windows with that tag. At work, I use one workspace for ongoing work and one for internet browsing. Usually, in your desktop environment, you can use different workspaces to sort your windows and gather similar applications in designated workspaces. The floating layout allows you resize the windows as you want (as the most window managers do), which is handy if you're using Gimp or a similar application where custom size windows makes more sense. ![]() In the monocle layout, all windows are maximized and you toggle between them. When using tile mode, which is what I use the most, it puts the window which requires the most attention in the master area while the others are tiled in the stack area. There are three layouts to choose from: tile, monocle, and floating. Sure, for most desktop environments today it's possible to create keyboard shortcuts to arrange windows to the left, right, top, bottom or full screen, but with dwm it's just one less thing to think about.ĭwm divides the screen into a master and a stack area. ![]() The killer feature for dwm, as with Awesome and xmonad, is the part where the tool automatically arranges the windows for you, filling the entire space of your screen. I've been switching mine to dwm, and here's why I love it. Conveniently, for all of these, you can change the default window manager to something else, which is what I've been doing for a while. KDE has KWin, Gnome 2 has Metacity, Gnome 3 has Mutter, and Xfce has Xfwm. Different desktop environments use different window managers. A window manager alone handles (among other window related things) the sizing and arrangement of the windows you open. In short, a desktop environment such as KDE, Gnome, or Xfce includes many things, of which a window manager is one, but also with select applications. Years passed and by accident, I found my way to and their version of a window manager called dwm. It worked fine but I couldn't get around the Haskell part to really turn it into my perfect desktop. So, I moved on and discovered xmonad, but I had a similar result. I tried it out but didn't get the hang of the configuration needed to tweak it into my liking. It neatly arranges all of your windows for you, and so, sounded like just what I wanted. Then, one day I came across a video of Bryan Lunduke talking about the awesome window manager he used called Awesome. On my quest for minimalism, I grew fond of Xfce and used it as my main desktop environment for years on my Linux computers. I also grow tired of resizing and moving windows, never getting them to align perfectly. It's free from shiny stuff that hogs my resources and distracts my feeble mind. If I could run everything in a terminal I would. ![]()
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