Tiler dotfiles… do you have any to share?

[Member manyroads]

I am in the process of attempting to create a tiling window manager respin of antiX19 (right now working with antiX19b3). I am looking for functional (maybe even beautiful or riced) tiler dotfiles. It would be great if they were already tested on antiX19, but I am happy to try and use those which work on the current antiX17 base. Be advised, I am only building for 64-bit.

What I especially think might be ‘popular’ are dotfiles/ setups for the following tiling window managers:

herbstluftwm
i3wm-gaps
sway
dwm
spectrwm

I have one (mine) for bspwm….

Thanks in advance!

• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by manyroads.

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[Moderator BobC]

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You could just tile with IceWM 🙂

Check your ~/.icewm/preferences for the word tile and try the key it suggests.

PS: WinGrid provides a 4 quadrant tile setup in 17, and 5 with the center window in 19b3
PSS: IceWM also has a cascading tile option

You probably don’t want IceWM though, I know… But just throwing it out there because it IS pretty light, and really has lots of flexibility.

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[Member manyroads]

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Hi @BobC I’m actually not worried about lightweight. None of the tilers are very heavy, by my definition. I do, however, want to work with wms that are considered as tilers (primarily). In truth, I think it is pretty unlikely that I’ll get a very heavy, positive return of dotfiles. 😉 I really am most interested in getting bspwm (my favorite) and herbstluftwm looking and working well with a touch of ‘rice’.

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[Member ex_Koo]

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@manyroads
All I can offer you is i3 , rofi , dunst , ranger , ncmpcpp , nitrogen. Almost forgot my awesome bar conkys..

I do have a herbstluftwm folder sitting in .config but just not sure about it because I have not used herbi for quite sometime..

Also I am very interested in your bspwm either MX or antiX but only after 19 is released. Mostly because they use C for their configs. And you would have done all the work setting it up, all I would have to do hopefully is change the mod keys to i3 keys. Just to lazy to get my head around C code..

If you can wait till the weekend work is in overload mode at the moment.

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@Koo Whatever you have is most appreciated, even the old herbstluftwm material. As for my bspwm materials, you are certainly welcome to them. I’ll even package a special up-to-date version for your use. The stuff in my Github & Gitlabs is a bit out of date and needs fixing/updating. I plan on getting things current once antiX19 is released.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by manyroads.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by manyroads.

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