5 cool tiling window managers

[crosscourt]

More here, www.lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=261087

[tlmiller]

I can only comment on a couple:

1. Awesome is anything but awesome. It's hideous out of the box, and is the worst tiling window manger that I've ever used. I never managed to get it to look good no matter what I did. Fonts just would not look anything better than ugly no matter what I did when I tried it. While I'm sure it was that there was SOMETHING I wasn't doing right, given i3 is so much easier to configure, IMO AWESOME will probably never get another shot at being on anything I use.
2. i3 is actually pretty nice once you configure it like crazy. Like many that focus on resource usage, it's pretty ugly out of the box.
3. The rest I've never used.

[crosscourt]

Havent tried any of them but have used i3 on another persons laptop, but really didnt care for it.

[tlmiller]

The one problem with most tiling WM's IMO, is that they get set up EXTREMELY personally, so yeah, what suits 1 person won't suit another. My setup was extremely spartan, with a nice background image, and nothing else on the desktop but a basic launcher and "system tray" application to give me essential "desktop" functionality. No resource monitors running, no background processes running, anything like that. So my setup was for me ideal, but MOST people that run WM's would find it quite awful as they like having all those processes running so their "desktop" shows all their system information and current status at all times.

[crosscourt]

This persons i3 WM was pretty user friendly and had many features that I would use, but its just not what Im looking for to use with my hardware.
He works for a tech company and is always playing with various options so hes always using me as a guinea pig.

[venusmussel]

More here, www.lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=261087

Thanks for the link.

[crosscourt]

No problem, welcome to the site.