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The Future Is Niri

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Re: The Future Is Niri

#91

Post by freedomben »

specproc wrote: post #89

I can recommend trying out any non-standard WM to anyone looking to learn more about what's going on with a Linux desktop. I learned more about Linux playing around with TWMs than any other class of software. I don't know if it's really made me any more productive, but it's a fantastic learning experience, the ergonomics are great, and there's incredible satisfaction in building your own desktop environment from the…

What are some of the most interesting WMs in your opinion?

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by floriannn »

alabastervlog wrote: post #77
tasuki wrote: post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

I'll occasionally do quarters. Especially half on one side, two quarter-windows on the other, for a 3-window arrangement. On Mac. My key bindings are a little different because I use the defaults in Spectacle to do it. More than a decade like that. Program's discontinued but still works and has never given me so much as one problem this entire time, so I'm going to keep using it until it stops working.

There is a maintained fork called “Rectangle” now.

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by ok_dad »

tasuki wrote: post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

I must also be a caveman, I have at most 4 windows open, they are pretty much full screen, and I swap between them with a mouse. I don't even have that many browser tabs open at any given time, maybe 5-10 max. I feel old when I see kids these days using fancy window managers with custom ergo keyboards and no mice, while they hack away in neovim (is that still cool?) and chat on a platform I don't even know exists yet.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#94

Post by freedomben »

tasuki wrote: post #74

I use Gnome and basically full-screen all my windows. Sometimes I use win+left/right to create a half-width window. Am I a caveman?

This is me exactly haha. What I really want is just gnome with a little more tiling capability for the rare occasion, like thirds and quarters. But the majority of my tiling needs are in the terminal and tmux is the hero

Re: The Future Is Niri

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Post by thugcee »

freedomben wrote: post #91
specproc wrote: post #89

I can recommend trying out any non-standard WM to anyone looking to learn more about what's going on with a Linux desktop. I learned more about Linux playing around with TWMs than any other class of software. I don't know if it's really made me any more productive, but it's a fantastic learning experience, the ergonomics are great, and there's incredible satisfaction in building your own desktop environment from the…

What are some of the most interesting WMs in your opinion?

For X11: Binary Space Partitioning WM https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm

Re: The Future Is Niri

#96

Post by thom »

qalmakka wrote: post #24

I just can't wrap my head around tiling WMs (and I've been doing Linux since a _long_ time ago). I just don't see how usable they can be when you have a "small" screen to be honest.

Lots of tasks involve two different apps (googling a bug while looking at the error, reading a spec while working on the code, being on a call while showing off a document etc). I'm almost always happier with two full monitors, but I use tiling when I'm stuck on a single laptop screen for example. I rarely want more than two things at once unless I'm in Emacs, and I sometimes get the sense that a lot of tiling window manager and tmux use is just people not knowing how to use their editor's built in window management and multi-process support. Obviously everyone's free to build their own environment however they like, I don't know why anyone would accept being stuck on a tiny screen for long periods though!

Re: The Future Is Niri

#97

Post by gautamcgoel »

maelito wrote: post #79

My biggest problem with wayland was support for french characters. So annoying, so basic. L'accent circonflexe ne marchait pas. Last time I tried, a few weeks ago, it wasn't better.

Just out of curiosity, what issues do you encounter? Doesn't Wayland support Unicode?

Re: The Future Is Niri

#98

Post by rwdf »

stevefolta wrote: post #80
tripdout wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Niri still supports numbered workspaces in the same was as WMs like Sway. It's just that now you can scroll them horizontally too.

The one caveat -- and it's a big one -- is that Niri numbers workspaces dynamically, and won't let you have an empty workspace (except temporarily).

You can have named workspaces now, I have ones dedicated to terminals, and browsers. They always have the same numbers.

Re: The Future Is Niri

#99

Post by alabastervlog »

floriannn wrote: post #92
alabastervlog wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll occasionally do quarters. Especially half on one side, two quarter-windows on the other, for a 3-window arrangement. On Mac. My key bindings are a little different because I use the defaults in Spectacle to do it. More than a decade like that. Program's discontinued but still works and has never given me so much as one problem this entire time, so I'm going to keep using it until it stops working.

There is a maintained fork called “Rectangle” now.

I thought that was a totally different program, not a fork? If it's a fork, I guess that simplifies figuring out which alternative to switch to the first time Spectacle gives me any trouble at all.
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