[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

[Andrei Thorp]

Yeah, I think the big thing about using a tiling window manager is
that it works best if you have a lot of terminals -- though reasonable
ones (Awesome included) have a floating mode with regular windows with
titlebars that is a lot like typical window managers.

And yeah, shame but:
 - Wmii isn't really developed any longer, which is too bad because
people really loved it.
 - Ion developer is a psychopath and his latest config files are
batshit crazy to work with

Re: DWM:
 - Xmonad and Awesome are both initally based on DWM, though both of
them now have almost none of that original code left due to it being
not actually that great (plus the wms changed a lot)
 - Awesome still handles tags like DWM, but has a lot more features,
plus you don't need to use dmenu separately
 - I don't care, limiting your program by code size rather than
features is a stupid idea.
 - If you need a ridiculously lightweight window manager, DWM is where it's at.

Cheers,

-AT