#windowmanager
I stumbled across this article while searching for informations about the future of some X11 window managers. probonopd created a good article about the differences between Wayland and X11 and the problems with Wayland (which perhaps could be fixed in the future)
Good to see that XLibre forked the X11 server so projects depending on X11 can go on further.
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
One of the things which frustrates me no end, is that every single #Tiling #WindowManager I've ever seen on #Linux is designed with the assumption that "simple" and "pretty" are mutually exclusive.
The closest I've come to "pretty" is XMonad, because at least that allows you to have colour schemes, and to change the width of the (flat) window borders. Most of the others don't even allow that much.
But maybe things have changed since I last looked? Do any of you know of a tiling window manager which is actually PRETTY? Like, 3-dimensional window borders and other things one can customise the look of?
@jdkiser Very nice! As a long term #debian user I never understood the need for contraptions like #kubuntu, #xubuntu or any other distribution that predefined the user interface. You just install Debian and the #desktop_environments or #windowmanager you like (or none... long live the #cli!) and that's it.
I'm grateful for my first contact with the #GNU #Linux world in 1998, in the college #computer lab... despite the #WindowMaker #WindowManager hehehe
The previous year we used the #lab of another #college in the same #university running #Microsoft #WindowsNT 3.51
In 1999 I tried using Linux on my personal computer, and since 2001 I definitively used the #Brazilian #distro #Conectiva (now defunct)
True minimalism!!! I definitely have to try it 
"Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code
Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionality?
You need mwm."
#mvm #windowmanager #unix #linux #bsd #unixITA #linuxITA #guuf #guufITA #guufxmmp #fedilug
https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/
True minimalism!!! I definitely have to try it
"Mwm: an X11 window manager in 20 lines of code
Is KDE too much for you? GNOME tries to do too much? Xfce still a bit too fancy? Do you need something smaller? Even more minimalist? What about a mere 20 lines of code which provide the absolute barest possible minimum of window management functionality?
You need mwm."
#mvm #windowmanager #unix #linux #bsd #unixITA #linuxITA #guuf #guufITA #guufxmmp #fedilug
https://www.osnews.com/story/142853/mwm-an-x11-window-manager-in-20-lines-of-code/
https://hg.sr.ht/~telesto/fox
Reading man pages is important. When you realize that a switch left your long term RAM you usually type man command.
However just opening a manual of a DE you use daily can show you stuff you did not know were (easily) possible
Im working again with a few WM and DE I had left for various reasons.
man is my friend
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.
Is it possible to use #gui applications, like #firefox, without a #WindowManager?
lily 
θΔ ⋐ & ∞ the csd/ssd discourse is annoying. why can't we have both. ask the window manager to draw the window, then tell the client where it can place things like extra window buttons and tabs and things. kinda like windows but good. this would allow people who want to customise to be able to do so, but if you just install a desktop environment like gnome it still solves the problem. #linux #gnome #linuxDesktop #desktopEnvironment #CSD #windowManager
What the heck happened to the #windowmanager of #macOS? It just froze on me in midst of a transition, but not for the first time within some weeks and not only on this device.
I don‘t remember any freezes in more than two decades of using #OSX…
Hyprland
#introduction Hi, I'm Geoff and I'm a #physicist working as a #python application developer and data engineer in a #satellite #meteorology institute at a large public university in the midwest US. Longtime #linux user, #vim maniac, mech. #keyboard enthusiast and mouse hater. I'm not a hero, but I am a #union man!