• kelvie@lemmy.caEnglish
              51·
              11 months ago

              I think you’re confusing a window manager with a tiling window manager.

              • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
                62·
                11 months ago

                As a hyper simplistic explanation :
                Window Managers (WMs) are essentially keyboard centric highly stripped down and highly customizable Desktop Environments in a way. This isn’t completely correct, but for the sake of simplicity it’ll do.

                I can give you a much more technical explanation if you want.

                  • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    31·
                    11 months ago

                    It’s not overly technical, just has more nuance :

                    A Window Manager is a type of compositor or X client (depending on if it’s based on Wayland or Xorg respectively) that manages the placement and appearance of windows on the screen.
                    It is responsible for the appearance and behavior of windows, determining the border, title bar, size, and ability to resize windows, and often providing other functionality such as reserved areas for sticking dock-apps or the ability to tab windows.
                    It can be part of a Desktop Environment(DE) or be used standalone.
                    Often times when WMs are referenced it’s in reference to standalone WMs which are often keyboard centric and come in various different forms. For example tabbed, tiling, dynamic, stacking, dynamic tiling, etc.

                    Some popular Xorg based WM in Linux include i3, BSPWM, DWM, Awesome, Fluxbox, Openbox, WMii, Xmonad, etc.
                    Some popular Wayland based WM including Sway, Hyprland, River, DWL, NeWM, etc.
                    Then there’s WMs built-in to Desktop Environments like Kwin(KDE Plasma) and Mutter(Gnome).

                    If you’re interested there’s an Arch Wiki with even more info.

              • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
                24·
                11 months ago

                A window manager, and you are usually using one and can’t “stay away” from it, that person just doesn’t know what they’re blabbering. What they are trying to say is that choosing a window manager may lead you to trying some unusual workflow.

            • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
              15·
              11 months ago

              I actually have used (for fun and autism’s sake) Linux with just VTs, running X for one GUI application at a time without a WM.

              But I think you are just ignorant of there always being some program to manage your windows called window manager, while using X.

              • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
                5·
                11 months ago

                while using X

                Wayland… exists too…

                Also… can you please… maybe… Kindly…
                REMOVE THE STICK FROM YOUR ASS.

                • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  12·
                  11 months ago

                  While under Wayland there are no window managers at all, it’s an X concept, could you please kindly realize that you’ve already licked that stick?