Week 3 Lab: Choosing a manager

Week 3 lab, commit to a window manager and write the first configuration you will have to defend

8 March 2027

The lab where you pick a theory of work and start living inside it.

Before the lab#

Bring notes from your day on a tiling manager and your day on a floating one, and the moment in each where the software disagreed with you.

In the lab#

You commit to a manager and write a first config: keybindings, workspaces, and a layout policy you can name. We review these in pairs, and the only question that matters is whether you can explain a choice rather than whether it is the choice your partner would have made.

Afterwards#

You leave able to run your desktop from the keyboard, with a config that already has opinions.