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Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal

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Getting I/O errors uploading the asciinema cast, but here's a preview: https://streamable.com/4hoqh

You have an interesting setup for your desktop environment, care to share some of the details? I see an XFCE icon but I'm not sure if it's only XFCE being used there.

Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal

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This is cool! I wanted to do something similar a while back, but decided I want out of the term, instead of trying to bring more robust UIs into my term. My goal was to have an editor, like Vim/Kakoune, use a window manager like tmux to provide more rich GUI features, such as popups and overlays. All of that in an ideally easy to use dev UX, making scripting information plugins intuitive and easy. As mentioned, in th…

Some DOS textmode IDEs used to have window management like that.

Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal

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Sorry for asking something that might be obvious to others, but what is WM?

Window Manager, basically a program that manages your windows. (This is more well-known in linux because you can swap to different window managers regardless of distribution, while in Windows and Mac you’re forced to have one canonical window manager provided by the OS)

Re: Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal

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> If you're seriously considering using this I recommend going to a psychiatrist. This program is so pointless, I even needed a mouse pointer to help me out find a point.

the author makes it sound as if this is an elaborate joke of some sort, but if that's the case, someone else has been laughing for almost two decades: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/

greetings, eMBee.

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