Try tmux, it works very nice together with vim. I can also recommend polybar.
Linux Desktop Setup
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Re: Linux Desktop Setup
#172Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here. Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the cus…
I'm also a Vista era convert to linux and still using a practically default Ubuntu image. However this fits with my original ethos for changing - at the time I was running a brand new business and just didn't have time to trouble shoot my OS. I ran Debian for about 6months before realizing that my time at work could be better spent focusing on my customers instead.
It's liberating to know I can burn everything down, reinstall, pull my dot files from git and get coding again.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the appeal behind Wayland? I've been using X for a while now (linux n00b) and I really enjoy having everything like this, there even are a couple apps I use specifically for X11.
It's not perfect, but personally I appreciate the better security model of Wayland. Although it can be annoying if you have to do screensharing/recording. On my older laptop, it also feels more responsive.
I'm on Wayland via Fedora, and we use Zoom for company video conferencing. About 2 months ago they released a new version that started supporting screen sharing on Wayland. Works perfectly.
Edited for grammar and to add this:
My point being is that it's slowly but surely getting better and better.
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#174I'm always kind of amazed at this kind of desktop setups, and I guess they're not suitable for lots of people for the simple reason that most users have a "consumer" relationship with computers and not a "producer" one. My biggest question here for people with this kind of text setup would be: don't you surf the web? Do you use then lynx or another text web browser? What about services and platforms that are designed…
I use w3m which can display images inline (im sure there is a way for lynx to do this as well) I use this for 4chan and HN.
For all other web needs I just hit super+shift+w and it makes a new chromium window in a new workspace.
Writing custom keybinds for launching weirdly specific applications is my favorite part of i3. My least favorite part of i3 is dealing with parts of the UI that I am very used to being graphical, like sound management. I end up installing gnome applets but I would love an alternative to widgets in i3bar.
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#175Every time I have to use the slow windows computers at the college I teach at I wish they would put a lightweight linux on them. I wouldn't go full command line but all I'm doing is a browser and word processing. A chromeos-like experience would be fine. Of course what really kills my work computer is the anti-virus. I f I could just disable that then the computer would be a lot more usable.
Can you just boot off a live USB? I used to do that on lab computers at my university.
I was doing that for a couple months but the tech guy detected it and told me not to do it...
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#176Once upon a time I ran a very minimal setup with using awesome. Tiling windows were great but I found I missed some things that Gnome had done for me. So I'm back on Gnome but replaced Metacity with XMonad, which was a surprisingly easy change. That was back in 2012. Since then there's a lot of churn in Ubuntu with first Unity then Gnome 3. But it hasn't taken that much work to keep everything trucking along, especia…
I do something similar, but running plasma, replacing kwin with i3. I think a solid desktop environment with a tiling window manager is the best of both worlds.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not all-or-nothing. Just because you use a tiling window manager and like to operate it with the keyboard doesn't mean you can't use your mouse any more. I used to use i3, and I used Firefox for browsing. I used the keyboard to layout the windows where it was more convenient, but I clicked on buttons with a mouse when that was more convenient. I now use the standard Ubuntu setup, not for any particular reason, j…
That’s why I use tmux
This is my approach as well - a single terminal with tmux + vim running covering an entire monitor, and then my other monitor(s) for web browsers.
I tried i3 a year ago, and didn't find much value in it since my terminal is already tiling.
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#178He has got a nice setup, especially as he's able to choose all of his own software. I've been using Linux as a primary OS since the 90's but I still need to interact with Windows for work. I used to dual boot my work laptop, which was made easier by Office 365 webapps becoming more usable, but still there were lots of gaps. This summer I got a new work laptop, and just cloned the existing M.2 drive onto a bigger, fas…
> I've been using Linux as a primary OS since the 90's but I still need to interact with Windows for work. My current job force me to use a Windows computer. You know, it's the company policy. Well it's the last time I take a job witch doesn't let me control my computer and use GNU/Linux. It feel like I m using the wrong tool for my job. Like use a stone to put nail instead of a hammer.
LOL I have a "Don't Want" section on my resume that says no Windows. And I found such a job! I program on a Mac.
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#179> I quickly noticed the huge compile time of KDE, which made it a no-go for me Is compile time of the desktop environment really a discriminating factor?
No. It's a virtue signal. Which is fine for him, just not a value shared by you and me.
Re: Linux Desktop Setup
#180Everyone here scoring serious brownie points with their advanced setups. And here I am, having used Linux for my personal setup for 15 years, using pre-installed Ubuntu on a practically default GNOME desktop. It's wonderful that I can do that and be satisfied with that, without significantly hampering the possibility of advanced setups like the ones here. Despite all the systemd's, PulseAudio's and whatnot's, the cus…
> …and we can sometimes fail to appreciate that.
I've never met a Linux user who failed to appreciate that.