Window Managers in Linux - Everything you NEED to know! 

My grandma has a couch that looks like that shirt.

Finally, I feel like this is a niche secret most linux users hide about customizing your system. I also thought window tiling managers were meant to be used with no mouse pointer, glad to know it isnt the case.

Bro the editing starting at 0:15 leading into the linode commercial was phenomenal. Serious skill and feel.

Damn, I didn't expect the production team on this video to be a Linux youtuber crossover

I KNEW that Niccolo edited this video, by the animations itself! amazing video nonetheless

I have watch your channel for a long time, I have to say this is one of, if not, the best video that you have ever done! Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👍 This is the best explanation of this topic I have ever seen. I use LeftWm and SpectrWm. I install them both on top of a Cinnamon Desktop as it gives me some of the tools I like to use. It can be Arch, EndeavourOS, MX, Mint, I have just became a Tilling Window Manager user. Yes I use the Desktops as well, so I have both worlds! Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👍 Well done!!! LLAP 🖖

Kinda new to Linux, been using It for almost 2 months now on my laptop and now I'm trying to use it as my main OS on my gaming pc. Ever since the installation I've been watching your videos and this one I've been waiting for. Currently using pop shell with Ubuntu, we'll see how it goes

what a nicely delivered explanation, very well paced. Thank you!

I really like your pedagogy, your channel is a breath for linux newcomers

really good production and well explained!

Perfectly explained, thank you!

Excellent tour, congratulations

Wow, a real team effort on this video! You guys did an excellent job! KWin works for me. I prefer server-side decorations for most things, with web browsers being the only notable exception. Of course, every developer has their own opinion on what to do, and many GTK-based projects seem to gravitate to client-side decorations, much to my annoyance. Naturally it would be GTK doing that too, which means the close button's hitbox doesn't fully extend to the top-right corner of the window because GNOME's top bar makes that kind of usability feature irrelevant. One problem: Not everyone uses GNOME.

Thank you for this excellent primer!

Holy moly the editing on this video!

love your delivery. subbed

Very informative video! Thanx😁

Excellent collab.

Very good and detailed video!

Lowkey feel like 99.99% of linux users just pose as workflow experts while in reality less then nothing gets done with all those fancy window managers.

Great explanation dude

Really nice, thanks.

Great video, good info

Good stuff man, thanks

very useful, thanks

Well this is educational content ❤❤❤❤❤ thank you

Clear and helpful.

I love this channel! Boom!

If you like DWM you're gonna love River. Been using it for a while now, no patching required.

You floating inside the moving window... nice editing!

OMG! I need a "Whats on my phone?" video from you. Please.

Just wanted to say I love your shirt :)

I never understood why people seemed so sold on tiling window managers. I've been using floating window managers for 30 years, and I like them quite a lot. Lately, though, I've been struggling with Plasma. Whatever I do, it just seems to love to pop new windows *under* existing ones, even in a completely vanilla, brand new deployment. If I can't get this to behave properly, I'll pull my hair out! Or switch to a tiling window manager. Whichever seems less painful. :)

hehe, i like seeing you all working together

Good video.

scrolling window managers seem very interesting

Nice video

For me, this is what worked: Windows cmd adm: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off And reboot Turning it back (if you need later): bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

btop - 8:30 - a very underratted system/process monitor

Wow, I didn't know it was that flexible.

3:55 theres also newm which has a 2d scrollable view of all your windows

What is the distro you're using in this video?

what editing software you using?

Hello! I'm new to linux and i just want a simple tiling Window so i can work with my shell and code editor in the same screen without alt+tab. Currently for now i only use 2 tiled window (which is WIN+Arrow Key) but i want more (tiled) cuz i open many files within the terminal. Mine is GNOME, any suggest for beginner like me? Only need the tiling, no need fancy stuff. Thank You :3

Which is the best tiling extention of kde? As bismith is no longer there... As a long time twm user, i can't live without one, but i don't have time to configure any so switched to kde... 😢 but then buismith gone and alternative 'autotile' is not much good

I'm surprised hyprland wasn't mentioned. (Not that I'm a hyprland user). But yeah, i guess there are many others that are also not mentioned anyway

Great Video, thanks❤ 1:39 - What brand and model is this laptop? it is very cool looking🔥

i wish there was a WM that was a like floating WM but with user defined 'snap-zones'. i know there's some versions of this for linux but i've found all of them force a grid and basically just enforce a tiling WM scenario with the ability to drag windows. i prefer the floating windows, i really just want a pre defined box on my second window i can snap stuff to while still having my sticky notes below

"rolling" windows is a veery old feature. I used it a lot in 90s with windowmaker or afterstep, they called it shade/unshade the window

I accidentally saved myself time configuring my window manager. On my old laptop I wanted to use JWM with qt apps, but accidentally I installed whole lxqt environment. But I do not like lxqt window manager and panel, so I replaced those with my customized JWM and it's a dynamite. Actually They combine together really really nicely, it seems, that lxqt is designed to get out of your way if you want to use your favourite wm. 200mb of ram used on a cold boot? thank you very much. If you like configuring sttuff through a config file, JWM has a really nice documentation which allow you to play around and customize a lot. But you got to be a geek like me to like editing configs. But I would not like it if the documentation wasn't helpful as it is.

👍what is the difference between tiling wm & tmux? How can I install a tiling wm over proxmox?

I dream of a program, where you have listed down all major window managers with r/unixporn theme variants. And you just click and after 5-10 seconds it is ready for you to try it out...

So cool to see Stardew Valley there!

try samsung phones we can create multiple windows which can be moved any where freely.

Watching later !

As an Enlightenment enjoyer, I'm sad you haven't covered Enlightenment's own approach to DE

A question: Is Xorg and Wayland on top of the WMs? (does the display servers receives WMs already draw windows or they send the windows draw to the WMs?)

I use I3WM, btw...😍

I didn't NEED to know about Linode

does anyone know if there are dot files for the window manager on 9:05?

You can even go ahead and write your own window manager if your skillset allows you to, while preserving the rest of your … Thought you were going to say “life”.

This is the biggest black hole of time in the Linux Desktop space... this endless fragmentation and never finding Goldilox's "just right" setup. It's so easy to avoid work when I can rather screw around in search of that perfect setup that'll totally increase my productivity... It drives another time suck as well: distro-hopping. This is guaranteed to be an unpopular opinion but it might even be why devs might be most productive on a Mac or in WSL. Desktop Linux might actually just have too many choices - it's the best and worst thing about it. If you can't just use your Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever distro to get shit done - this comment isn't about you, this is for all of those out there wasting time fooling themselves that optimizing their setup to the Nth degree is a substitute for just getting good at doing things quickly regardless of your Desktop Environment. As a hobby, these DEs are fun. In the professional world it's too often a case of "(desktop) Linux is only free if you don't value your time".

2:06 what kind of phone is that?

The "windows key" is nearly always Super, not Meta. Sometimes WIN, SUPER, META, and HYPER are all considered the same key in some unfortunate programs, but those programs are wrong/lazy and ultra ultra mainstream in the layouts (basically they don't customize their keyboard at all, so assume everyone else is not either, and is using a standard keyboard too), and the windows key is pretty much considered by everyone to be another term for the Super key, I think. Meta is a different modifier key that along with Hyper, is used by nearly nobody (unfortunately. They're damn useful and I highly recommend you use them all, though you might need to patch your software to have proper support. I personally like having Super be for global and compositor-level keybindings, and then have Meta be for top-level/containing windows - Meta is for terminal emulator keybindings, Emacs GUI-specific keybindings (as the terminal version's could and would conflict with the TE's Meta keybindings especially since I prefer the QWERASDFTXC keys, etc. I don't really use Hyper at all but I know that there are definitely hardcore Emacs users that make great use of the key))). Overall a good video, if too X-focused for my taste (Do you know da wae? Da wae is Wayland). Never seen your channel before this but if I get another good recommendation from this channel, I'll probably subscribe Decorations are bloat. `s-S-Q` and `s-F` are all that's needed Sincerely, a Sway user

gTile/Divvy/DisplayFusion

3:38 what font is that??

Yo 3:23 setup and the fedora wallpaper !!! Dude hook me up

1:31 TechHut plays KSP 2?!

Or just use a floating + tmux and get the best of both worlds

1:00 skip ad

So pretty much you can install a Window Manager without the bells and whistles of a desktop just so you can go around the script and add all the bells and whistles of a desktop that you would have had anyway had you just installed a desktop to begin with.

note: kwin is pronounced with one syllable

I use arch x dwm btw. 😂

I mean it makes you wonder whether people spending so long to customize their DE actually have anything else to do...

Everything I need to know huh? Lets see...

9:20 try to move even faster. Maybe that'll help us understand what the hell is going on on your screen.

Besides learning or talking about Linux or computers, what programs have you developed or how do you make money off it? What do you do on a desktop or laptop that can’t be done in an iPhone? All I ever did on Windows or Linux was learn and work on the desktop itself. When I got an iPhone my desktop computer and laptop was obsolete! I mean who wants to be chained to a desk or haul around a laptop these days.

man, i didn't understand what half the features do :D

I advise not to use the powebar because its very very resource hungry! ! ! One powebar is using as much recurces ws gnome and Firefox with 10 tabs open. Waybar is using 10x less.

Tiling managers are mostly useful for people working with code/terminals, for regular user this is not a good solution.

AAAAAHHHHHHHH HELP IM STUCK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And the whole configuration will take you weeks.

Suggestion, stop reading from a script. Wow, you got a few things wrong, and you forgot to say that you can run a window manager, and desktop manager at the same time. I have been running Fluxbox for over 20 years now.

Waste your Time Managers

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