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Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by rcarmo »

clinta wrote: post #8

It's disappointing that i3 is constrained to one window. The ability to replace Microsoft's window manager with i3 and allow linux and windows apps to be nicely tiled together would be amazing.

X was never designed to work like that. I personally run Visual Studio Code (with a patched X lib to allow Electron to start without graphics acceleration) with the "local window manager" (i.e., Windows itself). Works great.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by 616c »

Another thought: when people complain about the state of Linux email clients, what is so good about the Windows alternatives? Office productivity suites, I get it. But email clients all suck. Mutt's mantra is so true, at least they're honest about sucking less.

I believe Linux is a 100% of the time platform because the choice (again, user choice) to run minimal terminal apps means like less than average 50% memory utilization for Thunderbird, which I love, with a web browser GUI and background full text indexing all damn day.

Outlook is just as crappy.

Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows

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Post by 616c »

clinta wrote: post #8

It's disappointing that i3 is constrained to one window. The ability to replace Microsoft's window manager with i3 and allow linux and windows apps to be nicely tiled together would be amazing.

Now, it ain't tiling, but I once worked (not as the first guy, but took it over as a major project and the hell out of it) was one of the ports of Opebox-ish Windows managers (to be more accurate, really an Explorer replacement shell, not a Windows manager traditionally) to Windows XP to build very stripped down Windows kiosk machines with minimal UI and a lot of control, custom UI, and cool fun features.

http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php

God I miss this. It was way ahead of the time and I guess Microsoft got their UI act together, then lost it, and are trying to find it again.

As for tiling, the best you can do are these:

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

https://github.com/ZaneA/HackWM

The latter is by a budding Chicken Lisp; I found him and love a lot of what he does; not sure he is ready for prime-time.

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