• paddythegeek
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    1 year ago

    It’s actually kind of amazing to read this and realize how static these methods have been for so long. It would be a challenge to adapt to a truly new metaphor, I suspect, but probably worth the effort if it means the manager can be “smarter”. I wonder how they are going to amass enough data on user behaviour to make this truly work.

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    1 year ago

    Great that they are trying new stuff and pushing the envelope, and getting inspired by tiling window managers.

    Let’s see what interesting things they end up with, I wasn’t very impressed with Gnome 3’s shell, but the good thing with OSS is that I can just use MATE or cinnamon and get the old school taskbar.

  • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
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    So far the only system I’ve been pretty happy with is a manual tiling tool that I wrote myself, exec’d by my OpenBox keybindings.

    I use keyboard shortcuts or dmenu to launch most apps, which are often terminals or keyboard friendly tools.

    When a new window appears, it is focused. I typically immediately use Shift-Meta and the numeric keypad to move it to a zone (location & size) on the current monitor. I use Control-Shift-Meta for similar but larger overlapping zones. KP_5 is always centered and larger.

    To focus windows, I use Meta and the numeric keypad, and it cycles through all the windows which are (primarily) in that zone.

    Shift-Meta and a number sends a window to another virtual desktop, and Meta takes me to that desktop. Shift-Meta-O sends a window to the next monitor, if I have one attached, and Meta-O switches to the last used window on the other monitor.

    This arrangement quickly became second nature and makes my life easier. I often bring one window to the center for focused work, then return it to its corner.

    I’ll be bugging developers of wayland compositors until I can achieve the same there.