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Posted: **2018-10-03 01:05**

Heavily inspired by MX Linux...

Posted: **2018-10-09 23:46**

MATE desktop, Numix theme and Numix icons on my home machine. Luckily, I've been able to run Debian at work, as well.

Posted: **2018-10-13 16:24**

Back to i3

Posted: **2018-10-15 12:59**

pawRoot wrote:Back to i3

Nice! All roads lead to tiling!

Posted: **2018-10-17 00:17**

None1975 wrote:
pawRoot wrote:Back to i3
Nice! All roads lead to tiling!

I have to agree.

Posted: **2018-10-28 07:53**

None1975 wrote:I have a low-power machine. Raised Debian 9, which got up as native, and installed the lightweight window manager-FVWM.
Clean desktop:

Atop and irssi:

Screenfetch and binclock:

Pcmanfm and ncmpcpp:

Rofi:

It looks really nice

Posted: **2018-10-28 08:40**

I have no idea what I am doing

Posted: **2018-10-28 09:00**

addy wrote:

That looks sublime but the link returns a 404, unfortunately

Also, is that you addy? *waves*

Posted: **2018-10-28 09:35**

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
addy wrote:
That looks sublime but the link returns a 404, unfortunately

Also, is that you addy? *waves*

Yup, it's me. Thank you, glad to meet you and @Nili here!

Sorry for missing link. Here is the post link
https://www.deviantart.com/addy-dclxvi/ ... -768821851

Posted: **2018-10-28 10:46**

pawRoot wrote:
None1975 wrote:
pawRoot wrote:Back to i3
Nice! All roads lead to tiling!
I have to agree.

No they don't

Tiling works well on bigger and multi-monitor setups but fails on smaller screens. Multi tiled windows is a path of diminishing returns.

Switching between maximized windows and splitting screens works better on smaller screens.

Posted: **2018-10-28 12:55**

Cleaning up my compton config

Posted: **2018-10-28 14:34**

^I really like the thin shadow, In case one wants to disable a few shadow-features like: tooltip, menu, dropdown, popup etc.. this piece helps a lot.

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wintypes:
{
tooltip = { fade = true; shadow = false; };
menu = { shadow = false; };
dropdown_menu = { shadow = false; };
popup_menu =  { shadow = false; };
utility =  { shadow = false; };
};

Hello Addy, Glad to see you aswell mate with your Simplicity

Posted: **2018-10-28 14:41**

@addy: utterly gorgeous

The freeze is fast approaching[1]:

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a ... 00006.html

Posted: **2018-10-28 18:45**

OK, good news: I've just upgraded the vulnerable xserver-xorg-core package in my new Debian buster box to the fixed version from sid and `startx` still works fine, which is a relief.

X is still running as my normal user but the Xorg binary has no setuid bit so it all looks good to me

Anybody else using gotop?

Install with

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# apt install golang
cd
go get github.com/cjbassi/gotop

Then add these lines to ~/.profile:

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export GOPATH="${HOME}/go"
export PATH="${PATH}:${GOPATH}/bin"

It should then appear in PATH on the next login.

Posted: **2018-10-29 17:34**

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.

Posted: **2018-10-29 17:51**

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.

Posted: **2018-10-29 18:13**

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).

Posted: **2018-10-30 05:42**

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.

Posted: **2018-10-30 23:59**

^ 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

Posted: **2018-11-01 09:19**

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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