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Window manager variety

Window manager variety

Posted Apr 12, 2012 12:06 UTC (Thu) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Window manager variety by Cyberax
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

If it were possible for there to be a WM like this that was sufficiently configurable such that users of ratpoison, E17 and kwin (just as a sample) could all be switched to it without noticing the difference, don't you think it would have been developed by now? Nothing today or for a long time has prevented this, but it never happened. Why? What do you think has changed that will make this happen now?

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Window manager variety

Posted Apr 12, 2012 16:11 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Why?

It's simply that nobody cares much. I've seen a tiled window manager for Windows, btw.

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