Haven't tried evilwm, but the reasons you list for liking it apply also to XMonad, which I use and love.
I've tried awesome, wmii, dwm and a couple other tiling window managers and XMonad is by far my favorite.
Bit of a learning curve if you aren't into Haskell already, but it's very sensible and intuitive syntax that you can easily grasp from the many examples in the XMonad config archive.
Highly recommended. Active community, easy to extend. Lot's of reference configs. Changed my entire computing life...
I've tried quite a few window managers but I must say the automatic tiling wm actually make me prefer gnome, what really seems to do well with me is ratpoison or stumpwm. The control of tiling seems to work great and both are quite customizable (especially stumpwm). (I use C-, for my prefix and C-t in tmux) Recently I just use gnome though because my laptop just works there and have a full screen web browser and a full screen tmux (so I at least have some tiling).
Evilwm is awesome. I like to compile it with mouse support turned off on my netbook, so that all window manipulation is performed by keyboard only (Vi compatable keystrokes). I also turn off solid drag.
For tiling window managers, I find Ratpoison to be the best, but I also like Dwm.
I used XMonad for a while until I realized how much time I was spending customizing configuration files, tiling layouts, rc files, and whatnot. I like floating window managers, specifically evilwm, because it isn't very configurable or extensible. It just does what I expect, and I don't have to think about it.
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Haven't tried evilwm, but the reasons you list for liking it apply also to XMonad, which I use and love.
I've tried awesome, wmii, dwm and a couple other tiling window managers and XMonad is by far my favorite.
Bit of a learning curve if you aren't into Haskell already, but it's very sensible and intuitive syntax that you can easily grasp from the many examples in the XMonad config archive.
Highly recommended. Active community, easy to extend. Lot's of reference configs. Changed my entire computing life...
It's tiles, all the way down.
I've tried quite a few window managers but I must say the automatic tiling wm actually make me prefer gnome, what really seems to do well with me is ratpoison or stumpwm. The control of tiling seems to work great and both are quite customizable (especially stumpwm). (I use C-, for my prefix and C-t in tmux) Recently I just use gnome though because my laptop just works there and have a full screen web browser and a full screen tmux (so I at least have some tiling).
Evilwm is awesome. I like to compile it with mouse support turned off on my netbook, so that all window manipulation is performed by keyboard only (Vi compatable keystrokes). I also turn off solid drag.
For tiling window managers, I find Ratpoison to be the best, but I also like Dwm.
I used XMonad for a while until I realized how much time I was spending customizing configuration files, tiling layouts, rc files, and whatnot. I like floating window managers, specifically evilwm, because it isn't very configurable or extensible. It just does what I expect, and I don't have to think about it.