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I tried this a while ago - its okay so long as you are doing specific, limited activities. If you need to explore beyond the things that you have already figur

by shubb 10y ago

I tried this a while ago - its okay so long as you are doing specific, limited activities. If you need to explore beyond the things that you have already figured out for to do it slows you down. Websites you need don't work in lynx, Android dev is slower to pick up console first, etc. People expect you to see the pictures and word docs on your mail, or contact you via WhatsApp. You figure your way round these one by one, or give up after an hour and use the normal tool. And then onto tomorrows new distraction. Eventually this is a time sink.

bitwize 10y ago
Um. He's running X with a minimalist tiling wm with only one window at a time, not trying to live through a VT100. Of course, some Hackernews is now going to tell me about how this setup falls down hard when you need to do real work and how sensible people just use KDE or GNOME -- or Windows.
- dsr_ 10y ago
  It's probably a little difficult running GIMP for photo editing. GIMP wants a half-dozen windows open at the same time to get much done. Personally, I like having a few widgets on-screen all the time - a clock, a volume control - and I enjoy having two or three things open on-screen: a terminal and a browser, for instance, or two terminals ssh'ing to different machines. Having lots of display area helps. Pretty much every window manager can handle this, and it's just a matter of figuring out which one gets out of my way fastest.
  - rhblake 10y ago
    Many tiling WMs (e.g. i3, xmonad) support floating windows. Also, GIMP supports single-window mode these days.
    - milesrout 10y ago
      Even dwm supports floating windows.
  - bitwize 10y ago
    What you said about GIMP was true in 2002, but GIMP's new Single Window Mode makes it an ideal fit for a tiling WM.
H4CK3RM4N 10y ago
The whole point of his setup is that he has ratpoison ready in case he needs to use an X-11 application. His screenshots show Firefox running, among others.
striking 10y ago
I use dwm in a similar fashion as the article's author. Most of my work happens in a terminal, but I always have a Chrome window open somewhere. There's little to no point in doing what you describe (and perhaps you have missed the author's point); having X available but using it sparingly is probably the most efficient way to get by.

by shubb 10y ago

bitwize 10y ago

Um. He's running X with a minimalist tiling wm with only one window at a time, not trying to live through a VT100. Of course, some Hackernews is now going to tell me about how this setup falls down hard when you need to do real work and how sensible people just use KDE or GNOME -- or Windows.

dsr_ 10y ago
It's probably a little difficult running GIMP for photo editing. GIMP wants a half-dozen windows open at the same time to get much done. Personally, I like having a few widgets on-screen all the time - a clock, a volume control - and I enjoy having two or three things open on-screen: a terminal and a browser, for instance, or two terminals ssh'ing to different machines. Having lots of display area helps. Pretty much every window manager can handle this, and it's just a matter of figuring out which one gets out of my way fastest.
- rhblake 10y ago
  Many tiling WMs (e.g. i3, xmonad) support floating windows. Also, GIMP supports single-window mode these days.
  - milesrout 10y ago
    Even dwm supports floating windows.
- bitwize 10y ago
  What you said about GIMP was true in 2002, but GIMP's new Single Window Mode makes it an ideal fit for a tiling WM.

H4CK3RM4N 10y ago

The whole point of his setup is that he has ratpoison ready in case he needs to use an X-11 application. His screenshots show Firefox running, among others.

striking 10y ago

I use dwm in a similar fashion as the article's author. Most of my work happens in a terminal, but I always have a Chrome window open somewhere. There's little to no point in doing what you describe (and perhaps you have missed the author's point); having X available but using it sparingly is probably the most efficient way to get by.