I'm trying to turn towards using as little power as possible on my #Linux setup. I already use a #windowmanager with a simple status bar and the terminal for several things like writing.
What are some #lightweight programs other users recommend for a less power-hungry setup, without having to use the terminal for everything, or powering off my PC?
On the Frootloop Monkeytosh computer front the key thing is: AeroSpace: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
If you're a "tiling" Window Manager user like me then AeroSpace totally transforms the Mac experience. You can almost forget there's a mouse attached. It's all very familiar if you're an XMonad* user. It isn't quite perfectly seamless, but it's a whole other world of usability for me.
I've got quite a nice modernised setup working at the moment, with AeroSpace, iTerm2, Fish shell, Atuin shell history, and Neovim... still more to enhance, I've barely dipped my toe in with Neovim's capabilities (and currently have nothing like my old vim uber-config running, that's on the TODO list.)
* My dev-box window manager history is: WindowMakXer => FVWM => PWM => Ion => XMonad... admittedly this home desktop currently runs XFCE because I've never really needed it to be a hardcore coding environment.
@QuestForTori yes.
I loved #Compiz & #Emerald and I wished for an #AppleVision-like #AR-based #Desktop & #WindowManager!
Til about karousel - a tiling and scrolling window manager script for kde plasma like niri.
Can we bring distinct title bars back to desktop applications?
I don’t even care if you wanna hide the menu under a hamburger, I just want a title bar I can drag around and and resize. Something that clearly shows focus and keeps an app and all its bullshit contained within a clearly defined border.
OK OK... keep calm, don't lose time... but but... now I really need to test it! ( #niri see #previousretoot )
(not today though)
oh btw I'm still on i3 on xorg on #debian
The most important practical advantage of Linux is UNIX like tooling and THE WINDOW MANAGER as well XD
Welcher Windows-Manager, der für Linux verfügbar ist, kann innerhalb einer laufenden Drag-&-Drop-Operation (d.h. Maustaste ist gedrückt und hat ein Objekt gegriffen) die offenen Fenster mittels Tastenshortcut durchwechseln (damit man das Objekt in das damit nach vorne gebrachte Fenster fallen lassen kann).
MATE kann das wohl nicht.
Switched to sway, love it! Easy to transition from i3 and super simple to configure. Now i have everything set up just how i like it. Dotfiles on my github.
La mia recenzione di #tileos la distribuzione #linux per chi ama i #windowmanager #opensource
https://www.doityourweb.it/tileos-la-distro-per-gli-amanti-dei-window-manager/
Do you have a special way to quickly open frequently opened/closed apps in #OpenSource #Sway #WindowManager?
So, I've been a Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com) girl for a while now, but I bought a lifetime license of Better Touch Tool (https://folivora.ai) years ago, and I never used it. Thing is: it was overwhelming. So much you can do with it with the kitchen sink thrown in. But now that I've learned how to use it as a WM, I'm starting to think I might redo all my window management with it because of the insane amount of options.
GitHub - milgra/sov: An overlay that shows schemas for all workspaces to make navigation in sway easier. https://github.com/milgra/sov #windowmanager #OpenSource #overview #Desktop #overlay #GitHub #swaywm #switch #tiling #sway
How can people work with the macOS window manager?!
@simondassow the MacOS window manager is really one of the worst I have ever used.
I strongly prefer to use apps in maximized windows because each app (Blender, Gimp, Emacs, a terminal emulator) has it’s own unique workflow that works best in maximized windows. However when I maximize windows in MacOS and switch between them with the Control-Left/Right arrows, it waits a quarter of a second to animate the screen transition. During this animated transition it drops all keystrokes events.
So I might switch from one app to another and press some keys to do something only to discover that the keys I pressed were ignored because I didn’t wait just long enough for the animated screen transition to finish. When switching to a terminal emulator or Emacs, these dropped keystrokes can actually change the command that I enter by accident, which can (and often does) corrupt data in the files I am working on.
On Linux, all window managers transition between desktop workspaces instantly, even if there is an animation key events are not dropped. It honestly feels like Mac OS is fucking with me, deliberately trying to slow me down when I am trying to get work done.
Yes, I tried to disable the screen animations, it doesn’t seem to be possible. The best I could do was use the fastest transition, which is a fade-in.
Macht echt Spaß, wenn man sich das alles eingerichtet hat.
i have more #ux opinions on window managers and applications reimplementing tiling in their own guis, but i haven't mulled over it that much yet so... that's a future thread. but essentially i believe, modern window managers are too specialized, forcing application developers and gui toolkit developers to compensate with subpar, restrictive and incosistent interfaces.
this applies to sidebars, panels, modals (though that often does leverage WMs), and "windows" in #emacs (not frames), and whatever #tmux (or gnu screen) is doing. i understand historically why this was the case, these applications originally took over the entire monitor, and thus had to reimplement tiling and window management. but why do modern applications copy this?
i think the answer is restrictive window managers, and the primarily cause of issues being floating window managers. most of the window management in-app is tiling stuff. but i haven't thought or researched too much into this, so i'm not sure.
Notion 4.0.3 released
Since more than a decade, my window manager to go on my private desktop
#adminlife #opensource #windowmanager
https://github.com/raboof/notion/releases/tag/4.0.3
From the first day after my transition from windows to #linux I am still wondering about so many things and possibilities. And as a proper #newuser I've wondered why I don't see the benefit of some things people praise, like #windowmanager or #homelab or things like that.
After some time I've come to realize that I certainly don't need to do everything Linux has to offer.
I am happy to be just an ordinary user.
...but maybe one day... Who knows, right?
