Ask HN: Looking for a WM/DE for Linux or FreeBSD
Hi
It’s about WM.
It would be good something like distrowatch.com but distroDE-WM
Tiling windows, float windows…no matter. I love shortcuts, keybindings and all I knew (i3, bstmp, fluxbox, openbox) are about focus in windows. I was using i3 for 2 years and openbox for two years.
But I’d prefer about applications. If I opened mailclient, firefox, terminal, editor, and I want to open firefox again I dont want to remember in which window was opened, I want focus in firefox and NOT to open a new firefox window. So something like “meta-f” to launch firefox, “meta-e” to launch or activate emailclient and so on.
And the application is focused in the same position and size when It lost the focus. Something like:
meta-f:
if exists firefox
activate firefox
launch firefox
So I prefer all the windows in the same workarea, and no tiling, because I want firefox in maximum window size but terminal floating, or editor in a corner …
which WM permits me all these things?
no one (at least I know)
which WM is something like I wish?
Thanks [random remark from the internet] I use Xmonad. It's configured with nine virtual desktops and the Windows key as <meta>. The official sample configuration was sufficient to write the Haskell. I always open Firefox on desktop 5. Pressing Win+5 switches to virtual desktop five where my live Firefox session sits. Emacs sits on virtual desktop 2. And so forth. Conceptually, my virtual desktops are organized by task and it's just that Emacs and Firefox tend to be separate tasks. But I also move windows between desktops if it makes my work more efficient. Good luck.