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Not using a tiling wm is like having your physical desk covered with randomly scattered overlapping papers.
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I use like... 7 i3 commands and rarely find myself needing anything else this is not saying i3 is suitable for most people but it's fine for my terminally computered brain
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May 18, 2021 03:24
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I wanted to install a twm and my trusted source told me to look into swing on wayland. I run Debian 10 with an nvidia card  e: I just want someone’s sane dot files I can clone
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May 18, 2021 04:06
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animist posted:this is not saying i3 is suitable for most people but it's fine for my terminally computered brain i would say i3 is perhaps the most suitable tiling wm for most people. i think its the most popular one so there is a lot of support for it. i also love the way you split containers vertically / horizontally to make what ever layout you need on the fly. my idiotic reason for not using it is that the workspaces don't exist until created. i can't articulate why this bothers me but it does. if you're not mentally afflicted like me (ie extremely used to a particular style of twm) and you want to get into tiling wms, i3 is solid.
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May 18, 2021 04:37
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im not a huge fan of tiling wms because i think all the tiling schemes are less useful than 2 windows side by side and then as many monitors as you can fit on your desk and then virtual desktops to switch between
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May 18, 2021 07:02
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hifi posted:im not a huge fan of tiling wms because i think all the tiling schemes are less useful than 2 windows side by side and then as many monitors as you can fit on your desk and then virtual desktops to switch between
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May 18, 2021 07:45
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hifi posted:2 windows side by side this happens by default on my default layout and i dont have to do poo poo for it to occur if i open 2 windows. i also have the option for more niche layouts for the 10% of cases where it matters
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May 18, 2021 07:59
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Is a tiling window manager lien the win+arrow key stuff in Windows?
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May 18, 2021 08:13
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pointsofdata posted:Is a tiling window manager lien the win+arrow key stuff in Windows? twms are to native window snapping what org-mode is to a 21st century note-taking app that is, if you put on your best pair of suspenders and learn an ad-hoc configuration file format, you might be able to painstakingly janitor it into something similar but way uglier and buggier
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May 18, 2021 08:39
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i3 also has sway as a drop in replacement for when you switch to wayland
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May 18, 2021 11:09
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NihilCredo posted:twms are to native window snapping what org-mode is to a 21st century note-taking app I wish this was the case. But i3 does stuff I can't get to happen in gnome or other DEs without fuckling poo poo up. For example WM-level tabs.
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May 18, 2021 11:28
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mycophobia posted:i like minimal wms but tiling wms make no sense to me dwm isn't tiling though, it's stacking. It's a good wm for laptops. Robust tiling behavior is good for a single screen, and being keyboard driven is nice because who wants to use a mouse on the go?
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May 18, 2021 13:24
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dwm is definitely tiling...
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May 18, 2021 13:27
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quote:dwm is customized through editing its source code, which makes it extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except window titles and status text read from the root window's name. You don't have to learn Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X resource files), beside C, to customize it for your needs: you only have to learn C (at least in order to edit the header file).
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May 18, 2021 13:31
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I'm sure DWM is very easy to customize once you find your eyeballs which for some reason fell out of their sockets from rolling so hard.
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May 18, 2021 14:08
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let me guess, the code is self-documenting?
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May 18, 2021 14:42
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carry on then posted:let me guess, the code is self-documenting? I think it's like 300 lines? I used it for years and I don't even know C. Edit: https://git.suckless.org/dwm/file/config.def.h.html
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May 18, 2021 14:46
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xtal posted:I think it's like 300 lines? I used it for years and I don't even know C. a totally sane way to manage your windows. e: lol it's a xtal post, no wonder
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May 18, 2021 15:54
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What I find crazy is less having to make the changes in c (not great but whatever) to do the customization and more the fact that this means you have to recompile your window manager each time you want to change the settings.
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May 18, 2021 15:59
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mystes posted:What I find crazy is less having to make the changes in c (not great but whatever) to do the customization and more the fact that this means you have to recompile your window manager each time you want to change the settings. The Ghost Of Terry Davis Has Logged On
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May 18, 2021 16:04
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pointsofdata posted:a totally sane way to manage your windows. Is 115 lines of C too hard for poor baby? 
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May 18, 2021 16:27
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i think dwm is kind of cool in its super strict minimalism. like all suckless tools i wouldnt use it but i respect it
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May 18, 2021 16:29
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can never say "its not for me" online in 2021, especially in linux you're either Right or Wrong, it's in the thread title
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May 18, 2021 16:30
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I3 and Awesome both exist and are written in modern languages, why would you ever use dwm?
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May 18, 2021 17:12
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xtal posted:Is 115 lines of C too hard for poor baby? i don't really understand why i would want to use a piece of software that has literally zero affordances for me, the user
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May 18, 2021 17:17
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is 2021 the year of icons on the linux desktop?
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May 18, 2021 17:27
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2021 is the year of hbag posting through their linux problems.
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May 18, 2021 17:30
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isnt awesome written in c. i know you configure it in lua but that's not what you wrote
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May 18, 2021 17:31
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hifi posted:isnt awesome written in c. i know you configure it in lua but that's not what you wrote awesome is a fork of dwm with the original goal of adding lua configuration
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May 18, 2021 17:32
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hifi posted:isnt awesome written in c. i know you configure it in lua but that's not what you wrote Yeah i'm a dummy, I mean configuration in a modern language.
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May 18, 2021 17:35
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Stumpwm exists 
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May 18, 2021 17:39
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i think the real reason to dunk on dwm is poo poo like this quote from suckless:quote:Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.
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May 18, 2021 18:18
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To keep their community small and elitist they should just charge  to register
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May 18, 2021 18:23
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lol i just remembered this too: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177
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May 18, 2021 18:23
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the suckless people are absoluely insane and drove me away from fiddling with 9front because despite 9front propaganda (which is what they actually call their marketing materials) generally seeming vaguely politically left the venn diagram of 9front and suckless is basically a circle basically, lenny p was right for once
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May 18, 2021 18:29
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quote:extremely fast and secure - it does not process any input data which isn't known at compile time, except [this input data that isn’t known at compile time] because as we all know the best way to write secure code is to ask a c programmer to solemnly swear that they have not made any mistakes in handling input
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May 18, 2021 18:31
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Share Bear posted:you're either Right or Wrong, it's in the thread title you're never right
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May 18, 2021 21:29
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Pop os added tiling windows with a gnome extension and it owns. I love pop os
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May 18, 2021 21:38
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dwm: sieg tile!
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May 18, 2021 22:53
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DWM is fine. Configuring it is easy. Xtal is.... right????xtal posted:dwm is definitely tiling... It's not tiling any more than CWM is tiling
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