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> I'm thinking about trying the new Guile window manager that popped up here a few days back, it looks like it has a StumpWM-esque style and maybe Guile is a little more light-weight/less flaky than most Common Lisp implementations.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I'm a StumpWM fan too and it looks like Guile-WM has promise. Here's the homepage for anyone else interested:

http://www.markwitmer.com/guile-xcb/guile-wm.html

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I was just about to switch over to Guile-WM on my desktop today, but it doesn't look like it has virtual desktop support, which kind of kills it for me for the time being. Otherwise it ticks pretty much all the right boxes.

Virtual desktops are so amazingly useful that it's hard to imagine why a tiling WM wouldn't adopt them.

I imagine he just hasn't implemented them yet--they're not incredibly difficult and can usually be added later, as I did for Plan 9's rio WM at some point.

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