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Because op found a solution (a tiling window manager) and then needed to find a problem.


Dwm can be nice to use, but like 99% of tiling window managers it's a dynamic one and after years of use I find those rather impractical. I don't get the appeal of every window on screen rearranging and resizing just because I opened a terminal, it's more chaotic than anything else.

My favorite so far was stumpwm, which lets you statically split the screen in any way and then have a stack of windows in every segment. Works fine on every display size or number, all windows are neatly arranged according to their purpose and size requirements and just as much flexibility for keybindings.

Though nowadays I use Mac OS and it's...fine. What's actually important is how smoothly it lets you switch windows.




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