Le 07.02.2014 06:08, Anubhav Yadav a écrit :
Simply that, if you intend to take i3, you will have to learn to think differently. My opinion is that tiling wm are far more efficient than classic stacking window managers, but it indeed changed my habits. Since then, for example, I do not use any file explorer, they are slower than command line for most things. Of course, you still can use file explorers...So you use only command line for navigation files? Or do you use a command line file explorer?
I tried mc. I did not liked it, so I only use bash.
Now, i3 is the one I choose because it did not implied a lot of learning, it's configuration file is really clean: no need to learn any programming language there, but facts is that it lacks some features against more hard-core twm, for example some others have layouts: new windows does not just split current container, they are moved in a precise place of thescreen.But anyway, here is a quote from i3-wm.org: "i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers.". Gnome users might do not feel good there. It provide only a window manager, no menu, no desktop, etc. You will have toinstall those yourself.All I need is a good network manager. A good notifier so that I get notified of xchat mentions or usb plugged in notifications.
Wicd works like a charm, but I only use it when I need to connect to non protected wifi network, because I do not know how to configure by hand those networks :) About notification notifier, i3 can notify you when a window ask attention, so no problem for xchat I guess. For usb notifications, I do not know, never really minded, I mount storage myself, and for other hardware, udev does what it have to do alone.
Now I am also a programming student, so learning a good language for a twmshouldn't be an overkill. I face a question now: 1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and xfce.2) i3 vs awesome! Just installed i3, lets see how it fares against awesome.-- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune.