dwm post mortem::07.03.2007+13:53
I made the executive decision today to stop using dwm. It’s kinda sad because I really like the concept. However, it just doesn’t do what I need it to, and it’s less flexible than I’d like (and no, I’m not going to bother hacking it. I don’t have the time for that). I’d still like to investigate other tiling window managers such as Xmonad. However, dwm just leaves me feeling slightly oppressed at the end of the day. So, here I am back using Gnome (at least until October when KDE4 comes out).
What killed the experience for me wasn’t anything large, it was the little things. Perhaps it was me not liking the tags concept as much as I thought I would. What I’d really like to see is a combination of workspaces and tags. So that one can set up a certain set of parameters for window management and then move between those parameters, or change tags and have it all work nicely.
What this all means, is not that I’ve given up on tiled window managers. It’s that I’ve found that dwm doesn’t offer the features that I need to work effectively. Also, for those that didn’t get it, the previous post was tongue-in-cheek .