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Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by shirro »

siliconc0w wrote: post #8

I might be in the minority but I actually like overlapping windows - often the entire window is not necessary to get the data I am interested in. Right now I'm running tests in another window and I have a sliver of that window visible while the majority of the screen real-estate gets used for the browser in primary window.

I sometimes do this as well. Most tiling wms do support overlapping windows thouhg it isn't the default. But then many regular window managers will support placement of windows in various splits manually with a keypress or two so in reality the wins for tiling wms are very small in normal use. I think you have to have a crazy rate of opening and closing windows to benefit from automatic tiling which doesn't fit with my actual usage outside the terminal where I use a terminal specific tiling.

Several times I have tried to move to scrolling as I like it a lot more than tiling.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by shirro »

ximm wrote: post #35

Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html . Has anything about that changed?

I don't think despised is correct. Drew made an argument for more mature and responsible behavior and leadership but some people just want to write code and not manage a community. I think that can be a lot to expect from some young programer thrown into the public eye, Hyprland is a well regarded implementation amongst tiling wms but the category always has and in my opinion always will have limited appeal for good reason.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by porridgeraisin »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #77
porridgeraisin wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should be possible on X11 using standard extensions. XCompositeRedirectWindow to render your window to a virtual buffer, get pixmap, bind pixmap to new croppedWindow as a GL texture, here apply a crop transform. Then optionally unmap original window. Finally, we have to remap input events. This is trivial browser-style event interception, XSelectInput, change x,y, XSendEvent. I can try to make it work sometime t…

> On the other hand, the Great Wayland Security Theater probably doesn't admit such riff-raff. I'm pretty sure it's doable, but it probably does need to be baked into the compositor. But since there are compositors that can do full immersive 3D environments with windows moving around in them, I can't believe that there's any manipulation of the contents of a window that you can't do in Wayland. Of course, being able…

Yeah of course the compositor can do anything, but that's completely useless. Community applications need to be able to do it. Such applications are easily the most popular productivity applications on every other OS. If they're oh-so-concerned about security, a featureful accessibility API like the one macos has is table stakes, and needs to be developed before anything else. Its disgusting to release half baked theater like wayland does.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by rendaw »

I feel like I'm missing some context here. Who is DHH and why is his desktop so desirable?

The main page says it's "opinionated" and has two thumbnails of desktops that are mostly just a background image.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by TiredOfLife »

siliconc0w wrote: post #8

I might be in the minority but I actually like overlapping windows - often the entire window is not necessary to get the data I am interested in. Right now I'm running tests in another window and I have a sliver of that window visible while the majority of the screen real-estate gets used for the browser in primary window.

That's just the Macbrain you have because macos didn't have any window management for long time.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by TiredOfLife »

theYipster wrote: post #99

Hyprland is delightful, and the exposure DHH is giving both to it, Arch, and Linux is great. Since Hyprland is composable and customizable by design, building out a functional workspace from scratch is an undertaking. On the other hand, there are number of other pre-configured dot-file "spins" worth trying that produce a nice Hyprland setup. I like Omarchy, but ultimately settled on a Cachyos + Hyprland setup using M…

The thing with ML4W is that by screenshots it looks like any other desktop environment with overlapping mess of differently sized windows. While Omarchy pushes the tiling manager aspect.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by TiredOfLife »

rendaw wrote: post #124

I feel like I'm missing some context here. Who is DHH and why is his desktop so desirable? The main page says it's "opinionated" and has two thumbnails of desktops that are mostly just a background image.

DHH is the creator of Ruby On Rails. He is also a rich opinionated high energy asshole (so your average Apple fanboi). Those thumbnails are videos that explain and show the workflow of his desktop.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by UK-AL »

jeswin wrote: post #32

The world needs people like DHH. When he saw issues with the Apple ecosystem, decides to make useful, well thought-out tooling for helping developers adopt Linux. When he saw how expensive the cloud can be, goes on to build open source tooling for deploying on bare-metal servers. Both have been successful. Not just blog posts. Blog posts followed by hard work to fix the problem.

I like DHH because I like his taste. However there are lots of people like him.

However he seems to have the ability to build movements, and I don't know why.

Re: Omarchy Is Out

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Post by UK-AL »

joshcsimmons wrote: post #84

I genuinely don't understand this. It seems obtuse for the take of being obtuse with no real payoff. NixOS solves this problem comprehensively.

Nix is hard to get into. The lang is weird, and I'm a functional programmer. It's not very well documented. Flakes just don't seem to be documented at all? But are used everywhere?
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