I've used dwm for many years.
Unfortunately I only have a mac at home. But luckily the screen is small enough to just only have one window open at a time.
I have a 38" 3600×1600 screen estate, and use KWin with hotkeys for tiling windows and "focus follows cursor" for switching windows (just pushing the mouse/trackball in a general direction is quite effortless).
Over the years, I've figured I don't want to deal with hidden windows. The mental overhead is too damn high—compared to simply tilting my head to another [part of a] screen.
So, I have only a bunch of hotkeys on Super + some keys around IJKL.
The main reason why don't use an obscure window manager is that it's too much work, especially if I decided to ditch the desktop environment (Plasma) and setup everything manually.
Another reason is that the minimalist window managers are usually useless with only a pointing device and a touchscreen specifically. Sometimes I simply want to sit back and read without a keyboard getting in the way (my other PC is a convertible tablet and I'm thinking of getting a controller—instead of a trackball/touchpad—for my desktop too).
I find the field of view occupied by a ~40" screen at arm-length distance to be borderline. Any larger and I'd have to put it further away, or move around instead of just tilting the head.
Based on current state of market, I'd get 4k @ 32" screen, but then… I can't justify the cost compared to what I have now.
ghhhh I love i3 so much.
I have it on my laptop, which is hooked up to an external monitor. I have it set up to put odd workspaces on the laptop, even on the monitor. I honestly can't even imagine going back to a floating window manager. I've actually tried other tiling wm's as well but I just can't get the hang of them the way I have the hang of i3.
To me it's the perfect window manager. Easy to use/configure and out of the way so I can get other stuff done. Also, I love being able to have like 3-5 windows open while I'm programming. I can look at older code in one window, vim in another, compile and test in a different one, switch to another workspace to look something up online or to change my music.
It's stupidly convenient.
ghhhh I love i3 so much.
I have it on my laptop, which is hooked up to an external monitor. I have it set up to put odd workspaces on the laptop, even on the monitor. I honestly can't even imagine going back to a floating window manager. I've actually tried other tiling wm's as well but I just can't get the hang of them the way I have the hang of i3.
To me it's the perfect window manager. Easy to use/configure and out of the way so I can get other stuff done. Also, I love being able to have like 3-5 windows open while I'm programming. I can look at older code in one window, vim in another, compile and test in a different one, switch to another workspace to look something up online or to change my music.
It's stupidly convenient.
i3 is great.
And on a new install, the only thing I need to do is:
ln -s ~/dotfiles/i3conf ~/.i3/config
ghhhh I love i3 so much.
I have it on my laptop, which is hooked up to an external monitor. I have it set up to put odd workspaces on the laptop, even on the monitor. I honestly can't even imagine going back to a floating window manager. I've actually tried other tiling wm's as well but I just can't get the hang of them the way I have the hang of i3.
To me it's the perfect window manager. Easy to use/configure and out of the way so I can get other stuff done. Also, I love being able to have like 3-5 windows open while I'm programming. I can look at older code in one window, vim in another, compile and test in a different one, switch to another workspace to look something up online or to change my music.
It's stupidly convenient.
i3 is great.
And on a new install, the only thing I need to do is:
ln -s ~/dotfiles/i3conf ~/.i3/config
Yeah, that's the other perfect part about it. I just copy my old config and there I go. I tried bspwm as well as dwm. I absolutely see the merit in both but to me, it's not even worth the hassle of learning.
Are you just using the regular i3status bar? I've thought about changing it but three years into i3 and I still haven't.
One. I don't need to monitor anything and anything beyond my 3-5 windows (basically 2× source, documentation, output or something along those lines) is mostly distractions that reduce productivity.I find the field of view occupied by a ~40" screen at arm-length distance to be borderline. Any larger and I'd have to put it further away, or move around instead of just tilting the head.
Based on current state of market, I'd get 4k @ 32" screen, but then… I can't justify the cost compared to what I have now.
Just one 32"? Or 3?
One. I don't need to monitor anything and anything beyond my 3-5 windows (basically 2× source, documentation, output or something along those lines) is mostly distractions that reduce productivity.I find the field of view occupied by a ~40" screen at arm-length distance to be borderline. Any larger and I'd have to put it further away, or move around instead of just tilting the head.
Based on current state of market, I'd get 4k @ 32" screen, but then… I can't justify the cost compared to what I have now.
Just one 32"? Or 3?
That 32" alone is 70cm wide, I can't do more than 90-100 cm.
Using i3 at work but at home I prefer xfce since I rarely have many windows open at the same time
Yep i3/i3blocks. There is no dotfile endgame for meShow Image(https://i.imgur.com/mvR6hJO.png)
Yep i3/i3blocks. There is no dotfile endgame for meShow Image(https://i.imgur.com/mvR6hJO.png)
Mmmmmm that's tasty!
Are you using on of dem tiling window managers? Which one? And why?
I like XFCE. When I don't have tilings needs I also use XFCE. Lightweight, fast, feature-full. Only thunar is unstable for me sometimes..
I like XFCE. When I don't have tilings needs I also use XFCE. Lightweight, fast, feature-full. Only thunar is unstable for me sometimes..
I switched to Gnome Files (Nautilus) but I think I read that they fixed the Thunar crash I was having. Can't remember exactly what it was but I think something like occasional crashes when copying or moving a large number of files
I like XFCE. When I don't have tilings needs I also use XFCE. Lightweight, fast, feature-full. Only thunar is unstable for me sometimes..
I switched to Gnome Files (Nautilus) but I think I read that they fixed the Thunar crash I was having. Can't remember exactly what it was but I think something like occasional crashes when copying or moving a large number of files
It's old school, but I switched back to good old mc. Thunar keeps crashing for me, also in 17.04.
I like XFCE. When I don't have tilings needs I also use XFCE. Lightweight, fast, feature-full. Only thunar is unstable for me sometimes..
I switched to Gnome Files (Nautilus) but I think I read that they fixed the Thunar crash I was having. Can't remember exactly what it was but I think something like occasional crashes when copying or moving a large number of files
It's old school, but I switched back to good old mc. Thunar keeps crashing for me, also in 17.04.
I'll stick to ranger because vi commands. These days I barely need pcmanfm or thunar (never had that crashing issue though). I've read a few things about Midnight Commander but for me to switch to mc when ranger is available; I dunno, probably not. I don't have memories fond or otherwise of mc so there it is.
This thread prompted me, at last, to add the "useless gaps" in my Awesome WM.
The main reason I need to lose some screen real-estate by adding useless gaps between a tiling manager's windows is because otherwise sometimes it can be hard to see which window ends where and which starts where: for example if I've got two terminal containing logs it can get really confusing.
Now it's funny because Awesome WM does add useless gaps even at the outter edge of the screen, which doesn't make any sense to me (no risk of mistaking the border of the monitor for anything!). They also said they added useless gaps "in the name of art and unicorns", something like that: so basically that and also adding gaps at the outter edge shows they don't really simply don't get why some people like both tiling managers and "(not so-)useless gaps".
I tried gaps for a while but thought it was kind of wasteful; sexy unixporn though.
I tried gaps for a while but thought it was kind of wasteful; sexy unixporn though.
I just explained I had sometimes troubles determining to which terminal window certain log lines where belonging to when I had terminal window stacked on each other and displaying logs and you call it "unixporn" : )
I didn't "try it": I set it up to solve a practical issue I had (basically "readability" in certain cases).
But it's true that it's damn good looking unixporn too :thumb:
My screen estate is precious, tried gaps but I could cram in 3-4 more lines vertically of code. So meh... no gaps for me.
My screen estate is precious, tried gaps but I could cram in 3-4 more lines vertically of code. So meh... no gaps for me.
I should really "Use the source, Luke!" and go modify the code of that tiling WM myself: my main "IDE" (well, Emacs) is typically using all the vertical height of the screen (besides the tiny "taskbar", but with a shortcut you can make the "taskbar" go away), so the only reason I'm wasting real-estate there is because the gap in Awesome WM also adds gaps at the "outter edges".
If it only added "useless gaps" between windows and not at the outter edge, I'd get both readability between my terminal windows and all the vertical height for Emacs.
My screen estate is precious, tried gaps but I could cram in 3-4 more lines vertically of code. So meh... no gaps for me.
I should really "Use the source, Luke!" and go modify the code of that tiling WM myself: my main "IDE" (well, Emacs) is typically using all the vertical height of the screen (besides the tiny "taskbar", but with a shortcut you can make the "taskbar" go away), so the only reason I'm wasting real-estate there is because the gap in Awesome WM also adds gaps at the "outter edges".
If it only added "useless gaps" between windows and not at the outter edge, I'd get both readability between my terminal windows and all the vertical height for Emacs.
I even tried to not have titlebars for my panes in i3, but that was too much. Sometimes I look at them. I also used evilwm for a looooong time.
Total hobbiest at this point with my Manjaro with 2 pixel borders and no visual titlebars. Hidding titlebars was something I was constantly trying to do in all the popular desktop environments of debian, opensuse, ubuntu, and windows. Maybe my roguishness will change who knows.
Total hobbiest at this point with my Manjaro with 2 pixel borders and no visual titlebars. Hidding titlebars was something I was constantly trying to do in all the popular desktop environments of debian, opensuse, ubuntu, and windows. Maybe my roguishness will change who knows.
Re guys,
so I did it yesterday: decided to dig into the source and modify it myself. Long story short: my distro had, by default, Awesome 4.0.1 while 4.2 had a, non integrated, pull request, to do "less useless gaps" the exact way I wanted them. I didn't want to install 4.2 (didn't want to redo my config now: not too sure if there were incompatible changes or not) nor mess with merging that pull request, so I adapted the code for my 4.0.1 setup and now I've got the exact behavior I wanted...
1 pixel-wide borders for every window, no titlebars, a taskbar at the top of the screen that I can remove and/or bring back with a shortcut, and... Useless gaps but only between windows: no pixels lost at the "edges" of the monitor anymore. Also in Awesome WM there's a shortcut where you can resize the number of pixels of the useless gaps in real-time.
Total hobbiest at this point with my Manjaro with 2 pixel borders and no visual titlebars. Hidding titlebars was something I was constantly trying to do in all the popular desktop environments of debian, opensuse, ubuntu, and windows. Maybe my roguishness will change who knows.
Re guys,
so I did it yesterday: decided to dig into the source and modify it myself. Long story short: my distro had, by default, Awesome 4.0.1 while 4.2 had a, non integrated, pull request, to do "less useless gaps" the exact way I wanted them. I didn't want to install 4.2 (didn't want to redo my config now: not too sure if there were incompatible changes or not) nor mess with merging that pull request, so I adapted the code for my 4.0.1 setup and now I've got the exact behavior I wanted...
1 pixel-wide borders for every window, no titlebars, a taskbar at the top of the screen that I can remove and/or bring back with a shortcut, and... Useless gaps but only between windows: no pixels lost at the "edges" of the monitor anymore. Also in Awesome WM there's a shortcut where you can resize the number of pixels of the useless gaps in real-time.
I use chunkWM on my school macbook a lot of the time(switched back from linux for now until I fiqure out how to get better battery life (and until I get a bigger SSD)).Show Image(https://i.imgur.com/0qlfNrT.png)
I'm still on i3. This week, I switched to emacs (with evil-mode, sit down and chill) and it interferes with alt-key. Blegh... remapped alt to super (mod4) for i3. HATE IT.. winkey is very small on 87u (1x)
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As a recent macOS user, and former arch Linux user, I can say that the biggest loss I have is my awesome wm config.gonna start configuring my own AwesomeWM setup soon, with absolutely zero knowledge of lua. wish me luck!
I spent hours on it, but it was absolutely perfect. I could switch back soon... All available alternative are only...
Can't use multiple monitors or even a single large one because of eye issues. Therefore, don't use a tiling WM.
Can't use multiple monitors or even a single large one because of eye issues. Therefore, don't use a tiling WM.
Wouldn't a tiling WM be best for your situation? Maximizing screen real estate while logically grouping windows to reduce clutter and excessive alt-tab.
I fail to see the attraction of i3. Although everyone and their dog seems to have used it at least one time, I find it quite annoying to configure.
After having tried too many of them (including bspwm), I have mostly settled with dwm these days. Mostly, because I can't keep myself from having, at least, a version of Window Maker available - you know, just in case... :)
I fail to see the attraction of i3. Although everyone and their dog seems to have used it at least one time, I find it quite annoying to configure.
After having tried too many of them (including bspwm), I have mostly settled with dwm these days. Mostly, because I can't keep myself from having, at least, a version of Window Maker available - you know, just in case... :)
It can do pretty much everything that most other tiling window managers only could do if they joined forces. And it does it without being bloat or resource heavy. :) Annoying to configure i3? Are you sure you didn't open Emacs or something? ;)
Mouseless browsing is always a sacrifice, but so is carrying a mouse.Not if you use a browser made for it. I only need mouse on youtube to focus player.