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Well...yes, sometimes. You could run a WM in a chrome tab, but I prefer breaking out individual programs. Like, I can have KiCAD running in one tab, with the d
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Well...yes, sometimes.
You could run a WM in a chrome tab, but I prefer breaking out individual programs. Like, I can have KiCAD running in one tab, with the datasheets for parts I'm using in nearby tabs. Or I can just break an IDE out into its own window. It's a small screen, so having the whole browser window dedicated to the program is nice, and you can even use fullscreen mode and navigate with ctrl+[shift+]tab.
ChromeOS has a nice UI. Certainly much nicer than XFCE running in a browser tab.
- wolfgke 9y ago> Like, I can have KiCAD running in one tab, with the datasheets for parts I'm using in nearby tabs. To me this rather sounds like one should use another window manager than the default one that usual GNU/Linux distributions install if one has a small screen. I'm no GNU/Linux wizard, but I somehow expect that such a window manager already exists.
- leggomylibro 9y agoIt does, and it's called ChromeOS.
- wolfgke 9y agoSo you claim ChromeOS is a window manager?
- 6Typos 9y agoI also use this setup. In fact, ChromeOs acts as a Window Manager, because it deals with how each application is organized in the screen/ shown to the user; in this setup, no Chrome Apps are used (only programs from chroot are used) tl;dr: It can be thought as a WM, although it isn't one
- khedoros1 9y agoChromeOS is an OS. It includes a window manager "Ash". Saying ChromeOS to imply its own native window manager (rather than a generic Linux one running in a chroot on ChromOS) makes sense in context. Or at least enough sense that your question seems more mocking than clarifying.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoI mean, there are tiling window managers that are happy to tab windows; I use i3 and do this all the time. Bonus: tiling window managers are a great use of limited screen real estate even when showing multiple windows.