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What does your desktop look like?

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5461 Post by oswaldkelso »

None1975 wrote:
oswaldkelso wrote:Tiling works well on bigger and multi-monitor setups but fails on smaller screens. Multi tiled windows is a path of diminishing returns.
Then you can use Stumpwm or Ratpoison, where all windows are kept maximized inside their frames to take full advantage of your precious screen real estate.
So what exactly is the difference between a maximized window in a stacking window manager or a tiling one! I have dwm and icewm installed. Both can run floating windows and tile by default. Both can run maximized windows. The main difference is my granny could have used icewm ootb.

Personally I find dynamic tiling a pita, and to restrictive and keyboard heavy. That said I but quite like the concept of manual tiling and tabs in notionwm. But choice is good and I for one am glad we have so much. tile on.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5462 Post by ruffwoof »

I use tmux on the console. Within that you can create panes within a single window ... and zoom toggle each of those as desired to maximised; Or have multiple windows with each maximised and 'tab' between those.

Just a matter of personal preference, I personally prefer multiple windows rather than zooming/de-zooming panes. But sometimes I do use panes for the likes of comparing text side by side (vertical central split ... or horizontal split). Panes in a single window are also OK if you want to have a view of multiple things running on the same screen (system monitors perhaps).

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5463 Post by debiman »

oswaldkelso wrote:Personally I find dynamic tiling a pita, and to restrictive and keyboard heavy. That said I but quite like the concept of manual tiling and tabs in notionwm. But choice is good and I for one am glad we have so much. tile on.
i am a manual tiling person myself, and usually it comes down to fullscreen windows & switching workspaces.
sometimes a horizontal split, and very rarely 4 quarters - i have keybinds for that, openbox does manual tiling really well imo - it has the best of both worlds, i can use the mouse, i can use the keyboard, i can stack and tile...
i'd love to try another wm that compares to that.
oswaldkelso wrote:So what exactly is the difference between a maximized window in a stacking window manager or a tiling one! I have dwm and icewm installed. Both can run floating windows and tile by default. Both can run maximized windows. The main difference is my granny could have used icewm ootb.
icewm can tile? cool, have to take a closer look.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5464 Post by oswaldkelso »

^ debiman

shift+alt+F2
shift+alt+F3
shift+alt+F4

In my Dragora-ice theme we have launchers in the taskbar that use xdotool. I didn't want to change the default key-binds and it makes it easier for joe blogs

prog "tile-v" tile-v.xpm xdotool key shift+alt+F2
prog "tile-h" tile-h.xpm xdotool key shift+alt+F3
prog "casscade" casscade.xpm xdotool key shift+alt+F4

casscade runs from either the left or top depending on the window layout.


ps: will reply to other questions when not so busy
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5465 Post by alan stone »

debiman wrote:... openbox does manual tiling really well imo... i'd love to try another wm that compares to that.
FYI: Tiling in Fvwm
https://github.com/urob/fvwm-tiling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5466 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5467 Post by None1975 »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:0.00 load average, ha!
Great result!
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5468 Post by pawRoot »

New config, a bit weird colors but i actually enjoy them.


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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5469 Post by None1975 »

pawRoot wrote:New config, a bit weird colors but i actually enjoy them.
Looks interesting. By the way, did you solve problem with manipulate volume?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5470 Post by pawRoot »

None1975 wrote:
pawRoot wrote:New config, a bit weird colors but i actually enjoy them.
Looks interesting. By the way, did you solve problem with manipulate volume?
Thanks, no not yet.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5471 Post by llivv »

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5472 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5474 Post by bengtfrost »

My Debian Stable with MATE desktop and Brisk Menu plus Arc Dark (WM), Arc Darker and Papirus icon themes (Debian Stretch Backports).
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5475 Post by pawRoot »

Finally managed to get Polybar on Debian (thanks to @stevepusser)

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Although the symbols in gotop don't display properly :(

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5476 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

pawRoot wrote:the symbols in gotop don't display properly
Try xterm and the stock bitmap font, it's not very trendy but the dots display correctly:

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And xterm does true colour, unlike urxvt: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5477 Post by pawRoot »

It worked fine previously, maybe it's just Monaco font missing some characters

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5478 Post by addy »

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My selfmade font started to look nice
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5479 Post by None1975 »

addy wrote:My selfmade font started to look nice
Hello. What is this? Openbox?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5480 Post by n_hologram »

None1975 wrote:
addy wrote:My selfmade font started to look nice
Hello. What is this? Openbox?
Also curious. It looks nice.
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