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I3 – improved tiling wm

9 pointsby agonzalezroabout 10 years ago

2 comments

chmielewskiabout 10 years ago
I use it on a tiny netbook (1 GB RAM) when traveling and on a two-monitor network control center behemoth at work. Perfect for low-resource computing or when gaming or running multiple VMs where one doesn't need or want the physical desktop environment hogging all the attention. Screen real estate left over to rent out. Went back to openbox half for nostalgia and half to try out the desktop/menu config of somebody who'd configured it twice as intuitively as I'd always hoped to have and was disgusted by the overuse of the mouse when I used to believe openbox was keyboardcentric. Brief forays with stumpwm but I keep coming back. I 3 i3wm 3ever
a3nabout 10 years ago
I use it, I love it, I've forgotten it's even there.