Ask HN: Looking for a WM/DE for Linux or FreeBSD
It’s about WM.
It would be good something like distrowatch.com but distroDE-WM
Tiling windows, float windows…no matter. I love shortcuts, keybindings and all I knew (i3, bstmp, fluxbox, openbox) are about focus in windows. I was using i3 for 2 years and openbox for two years.
But I’d prefer about applications. If I opened mailclient, firefox, terminal, editor, and I want to open firefox again I dont want to remember in which window was opened, I want focus in firefox and NOT to open a new firefox window. So something like “meta-f” to launch firefox, “meta-e” to launch or activate emailclient and so on.
And the application is focused in the same position and size when It lost the focus. Something like:
meta-f:
if exists firefox
activate firefox
else launch firefox
I dont want to work with works-area. I did it for years and always found out the same problem about moving windows from one to another. Many times I need a terminal window with editor in the same screen, or firefox with emailclient …moving, sizing.. lot of combinationsSo I prefer all the windows in the same workarea, and no tiling, because I want firefox in maximum window size but terminal floating, or editor in a corner …
which WM permits me all these things?
no one (at least I know)
which WM is something like I wish?
Thanks