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YaLTeR

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    Comment #39967648

    Hey, I'm the author. Glad you enjoyed the post! I don't have any results for Windows or macOS yet unfortunately. I wanted to run these tests on Windows eventually, and include thin…

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    Comment #37370419

    You could fullscreen them, yeah. Just for gitui on my monitor, I find that 67% is both sufficient and enough, and keeping a little bit of the other window in sight helps maintain s…

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    Comment #37368530

    Have you seen PaperWM [1]? It runs on top of GNOME as an extension, so you get all the benefits of a fully fledged and supported DE, and it is quite a well done implementation. I'v…

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    Comment #37368501

    Alt+Tab is in most-recently-used order, whereas with scrolling it's a spatial kind of system. > since it reintroduces the mouse as a core aspect of window navigation Not really, wh…

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    Comment #37368490

    As an example, I usually keep my code editor maximized, with a 67% gitui terminal to the left and a 67% "compile & run" terminal to the right. This way nothing is too small. And th…

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    Comment #37368248

    I personally find it better because, unlike regular tiling, you're not constrained to the screen size. I.e. if a 50% window width is too small, I can tile together several 67% or e…

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    Comment #37368070

    I will describe how PaperWM works; I think that behavior makes a lot of sense. There are preset widths (by default: ~33%, 50%, ~67%) which you can toggle between with a key, plus a…

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    Comment #16559253

    Whenever I tried streaming coding on Twitch I found myself being much less productive than normally due to constantly having to pay attention to the chat and whatnot. Actually for …

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    Comment #15707098

    A text editor using 600 MB of RAM to open a file is ridiculous. That with a couple of Chrome tabs grinds my laptop to a halt.