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<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>
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