2 months ago, I removed bspwm in favor of GNOME. After using GNOME as a
daily driver for some months now, I can appreciate it as a nice desktop
environment for many GNU/Linux users, however it does not meet my needs
as well as a customized window manager setup can.

In reality, I don't need *too much* from a window manager; it just needs
to manage windows in a reasonable way. For anything else I need, I am
free to program it myself as a learning exercise. I prefer understanding
most if not everything running in my environment versus having various
GNOME utilities running in the background.

2023-03-19 16:15:43 -04:00

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bspwm is a tiling window manager for X11.

Use Cases

bspwm can be used to:

Automatically tile all kinds of windows, maximizing screen estate
Have complete control of your window manager through simple shell commands
Minimize resource usage; bspwm works best without a desktop environment

You should not use bspwm if:

You are using a desktop environment
You just want to open multiple shells (use kitty or tmux for this instead)

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