Can someone please make a window manager that fits linux?
Flat, no animations, super performant, no rounded corners, no shading, pixelated icons. Never understood how all the linux desktops are so ugly and laggy
Hold down ALT and CLICK1 on a window, _anywhere_ on that window, and you go into "window move" mode. No need to seek out the "titlebar", just click and move.
Hold down ALT and CLICK3 on a window, _anywhere_ on that window, and you go into "window resize" mode. No need to seek out the "corner edge", just click and it resizes the window.
With just that I can entirely rearrange my desktop with almost no effort and in very little time. It becomes second nature very quickly, and the need for "forced tiling" basically disappears. The problem with WMs isn't the layout strategy, it's the lack of user optimized layout controls.
I've been using this hacked up WM for 15 years. I will use this until I'm dead. I have yet to find anything which I find superior.
https://superuser.com/questions/53051/altclick-drag-window-r...
This is a standard X.org feature. It works on more or less all Linux window managers; I checked and it works perfectly on Unity, as expected, and it did back in 2011 or so when it was launched.
I don't want the 2nd feature you describe, but I have seen the option for it in some other WMs.
Taekwindow adds it to MS Windows: http://taekwindow.net/
Note that the site also documents how it works.
This is not a dwm feature and nothing to do with dwm.
It is implemented entirely by the window manager. Perhaps other WMs have adopted it, but the X server does not do this. It's why you need a window _manager_.
> I don't want the 2nd feature you describe, but I have seen the option for it in some other WMs.
I can only recommend it. Being able to move and position your windows quickly while removing all window manager framing around your windows is powerful. I'd at least recommend you _try_ it before you publicly talk it down.
> This is not a dwm feature and nothing to do with dwm.
I'm not using dwm, as I've said I've modified it, because dwm is a tiling window manager. These are not tiling oriented features. I can precisely show you the code where this is being done and how it is configured within the event system that I've built for it.
But you were claiming alt-dragging this as a specific feature of your WM, whereas AFAIK all X11 WMs support this. I don't know of any that don't.
Why do you assume that I haven't tried alt resizing? I would have thought that expressing familiarity with the functionality you're discussing made it clear that I know how it works. When I say I don't want it, that's because I've tried it and don't use it.
I'm not dismissing it! If you like it, that's great. I tend to do large scale window management via keyboard shortcuts myself. It's why I dislike environments which don't support the standard keystrokes, such as KDE's kwin, and ones that remove it, such as GNOME.