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| author | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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diff --git a/articles/2025/Window-manager-thoughts.html b/articles/2025/Window-manager-thoughts.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..e8dfed3 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/2025/Window-manager-thoughts.html @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +<!doctype html> +<html lang="EN"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> + <title>Window manager thoughts</title> + </head> + <body> + <header> + <h1>Bloggings</h1> + <a href="/index.php">Back</a> + + </header> + +<main> +<article> +<h2>Window manager thoughts</h2> +<h3>2025-04-15</h3> +<h4>Messing with i3, Openbox, and Xfce4</h4> +<p>Listening to Youtube "influencers" I learned that I was a dummy because I don't use tiling window managers.</p> +<p>I tried i3 in Manjaro before but just didn't connect with it. Perhaps it was me? +Trying again I spent the past couple of days messing with the configuration files of i3, i3blocks, polybar, etc. +again, just to see if maybe I missed out on something.</p> +<p>Turns out I didn't.</p> +<p>My Thinkpad X220 is my daily drive, it has a 13" screen, 1366x768, and a French keyboard.</p> +<p>Splitting the screen is a daft idea on such a small laptop, it doesn't add any productivity improvement +even when you cast aside the problems remembering was it Super+~ or was it Super+Shift+F2 ?, +and the resulting digital gymnastics (although possibly good for my carpal tunnels, who knows?)</p> +<p>It's understandable when you have a nice large desktop screen and a decently sized keyboard, but here no way.</p> +<p>Anyway, a stacking windowmanager, Xfce4, appears to be the best bang for my buck teeth on this laptop.</p> +<p>I have set the keystroke Super+right & left to flip through windows that I mostly have maximised +(I'll eventually use devilspie to make this automatic), +that are all simply stacked on top of each other in the same workspace. +I use tabs in Ghostty to have for example Neomutt, btop, and a command line. In Librefox I have tabs too, +and I'll probably have Libreoffice Calc or Writer open, Gimp, galculator too.</p> +<p>Simple and effective, while keeping a bottom panel and application menu available.</p> +</article> +</main> +<footer> + +<p> </p> + +<p>ยง</p> + </footer> +</body> +</html> |