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Re: Show HN: Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager

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Post by hunt »

cessor wrote: post #60

Harvey, your code looks very nice and expressive with appropriate comments. There is some space for improvements on this matter (well, there always is) but I found it very good to read and easy to follow! Really well done, keep up the good work!

Thanks for the kind words! It'd be great if you could tell me what improvements you think would be best, I'm trying to make howm's code as nice as I can. I know that having everything in one file is frowned upon, but I quite like the simplicity of it.

Re: Show HN: Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager

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Post by JadeNB »

dllthomas wrote: post #59
dllthomas wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I tried ratpoison in linux but found it to interfere with application keyboard shortcuts." Huh? Rat poison is the only window manager I've used that interferes (meaningfully) with precisely zero application keyboard shortcuts. This is because it only intercepts one key , and having pressed that you there is a key bound in the next map to send the original key . And of course you can pick that top level key. Edited t…

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