I've been on a quest the past few days to find the best window manager that suits my needs. One of the reasons why I keep switching back and forth between 7 + Linux, is that the window manager is either lacking a feature, or is pissing me off beyond belief. I don't know what it is, but I feel all Linux window managers are missing something that Windows has. I think I narrowed it down to saving window size + position on exit. Windows has it, but these window managers I tested don't.
Openbox: No.
Metacity: No.
Compiz: No.
KWin: Yes, but per application basis.
XFWM4: No.
Is there ANY window manager that does this? I don't understand why such a simple feature hasn't made its way into any of these yet. Am I just being stupid? If there is something that I am missing, tell me, and put me out of my misery.
I think Fluxbox and pekwm both save size/position.
Openbox saves size (not sure about location, I never move my windows around), I can't think of any reason you wouldn't like it other than maybe it's lack of a taskbar (which can be fixed with something like tint2, pypanel, fbpanel, etc.)
dwm is great.
This also pisses me off about Compiz/Gnome DE/Nautilus is that it rarely saves any window placements. It seems very random. It will save my folder window positions most of the time, but things like opening Terminal (or any application) always reset their positions, and it's very annoying.
Just tried Fluxbox, doesn't save window position. I'll try DWM next.
Maybe WMII? Maybe not... inb4 dumb.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;20113889]This also pisses me off about Compiz/Gnome DE/Nautilus is that it rarely saves any window placements. It seems very random. It will save my folder window positions most of the time, but things like opening Terminal (or any application) always reset their positions, and it's very annoying.[/QUOTE]
KDE saves too much I think. When I log in it even restarts all the applications I left open from last time, which kind of gets annoying.
No, I don't want to start Pidgin yet, and no I don't need my music player right now. :/
iirc DWM is a tiling window manager with a steep learning curve. You may want to try something else.
Yea. It is.
The point was that he wanted something that could manage the windows a bit more easily.
dwm is great for managing windows - something that DEs aren't always the greatest at.
DWM is great for managing windows more efficiently. Not more easily.
[URL="http://www.scrotwm.org/"][QUOTE][/URL][URL="http://www.scrotwm.org/"]Scrotwm[/URL] is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast. [/QUOTE]
Could be a bit to minimalistic...
That is kind of odd. I have never noticed compiz not remembering positions, but I mainly don't move much around and my main programs I move to my secondary screen happened to be saved so I don't have the problem.
Compiz is not a window manager, it's compositing software.
GNOME saves window size and position, AFAIK.
Compiz is classified as a Compositing window manager, just like Vista/W7 and Mac OS X's interfaces.
so i can run compizz without a wm like gnome?
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