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mould OP wrote

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mofongo wrote

Yes, those two are among the lightest DE. Openbox the less resource hungry of the two.

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mould OP wrote

I'm liking the sound of wm only, some thing I'll be able to feasibly work my way through the source and understand thew innards off.

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heckthepolice2 wrote (edited )

If you want to read through the source code, dwm (a tiling wm) is so minimalist that you actually have to edit the source code and recompile to configure it. (Which isn't actually nearly as hard as it sounds since all the config options are contained in one file)

Currently, I'm using bspwm, which is another tiling window manager (less minimalist than dwm) and it's quite nice. I used to use i3 and it's good as well. In terms of stacking wms that are configurable and lightweight openbox is all I can think of but I haven't look into those kind much because I hate having to use the mouse

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mould OP wrote

I had no idea dwm was this small ! I'm not sure I like it as a window manger, but I'm definately keeping this as a refference for how a wm works, even with my cursory reading of it, I feel like I have a far better understaning of how X functions.

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