sdorfehs
A tiling window manager (by jcs)
shod
mouse-based window manager that can tile windows inside floating containers (by phillbush)
| sdorfehs | shod | |
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| 5 | 5 | |
| 268 | 164 | |
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| 4.9 | 8.2 | |
| about 1 year ago | 5 months ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sdorfehs
Posts with mentions or reviews of sdorfehs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-31.
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What is objectively the best window manager?
I use sdorfehs, which is a fork of ratpoison.
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[sdorfehs] netbsd
No, sdorfehs has been around for a couple of years. It's a tiling wm descended from ratpoison & primarily uses prefixed/modal key bindings for most actions. It does not support mouse actions or floating windows and that's just the way I like it 👌
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[sdorfens] Keep it simple stupid.
WM - sdorfehs (starfish) https://github.com/jcs/sdorfehs
- Starfish Window Manager (sdorfehs)
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OpenBSD on the X1 Nano
sdorfehs and my bar script
shod
Posts with mentions or reviews of shod.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-11.
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[OC] XFiles: A modular X11 file browser (WIP)
WM is shod with default theme.
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shod: an acme-like window manager that tile windows inside floating containers
shod is my attempt to mimic Plan9's acme behavior in a window manager.
- [shod] yet another shod showcase
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[shod] tiled shaded windows with tabs
This image shows three features of shod:
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[shod] main features
Shod is now stable and ready for others to use!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sdorfehs and shod you can also consider the following projects:
i3 - A fork of the i3 window manager with gaps and some other features. :warning: i3-gaps has been merged into i3.
NWM - NWM is a simple window manager for linux which uses Xlib for managing windows
dwm-win32 - dwm port of tiling manager to Window
mlvwm - Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager (official repo)
progman - progman.exe^H^H^H^H
fvwm3 - FVWM version 3 -- the successor to fvwm2
coma - My minimalistic X11 window manager. || This is a read-only mirror, pull requests are ignored.
voidrice - My dotfiles (deployed by LARBS)
devoidwm - A simple X11 window manager