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I'm not sure how i3-wm compares to Awesome-wm, but I think they're in the same category. I think they're called tags in awesome, and I have 9 per monitor. You

by tmerc 9y ago

I'm not sure how i3-wm compares to Awesome-wm, but I think they're in the same category. I think they're called tags in awesome, and I have 9 per monitor. You assign a tag to a window with hotkeys and can specify the displayed tags with hotkeys. On a single screen, my terminal is tag 3, browser is tag 1. If I need them side by side, I can show multiple tags at once. Otherwise, I switch between them with meta+1 or meta+3. Considering i3 is also tiling, it may have similar features, but I don't know. As to why this vs alt+tab; alt+tab is a cycle of what's open and needs recognition. meta+1 is my browser; meta+3 is my editor. If I have other windows open, they're not on those tags and don't matter in switching.

ge96 9y ago
Haven't heard of awesome-wm. I like that idea. Can you save it like a state you know, open some applications, I usually have to open my note taking "app" haha gedit, and then VSCode, FileZilla (I know not a CD), local Host directory and browser. That's a project for me an excuse to learn how to use Electron. Thanks for the tip I like that. I only know how to shift app tabs left haha alt+shift+j but the combining is cool alt+v and then alt+w or alt+e, I was stubborn before about using it but Ubuntu's dealt UI is so bloated. One thing I was looking into was time-tracking how long a panel was active for working on different projects (clients). But I usually max out my 8GB RAM too many chrome tabs.
- tmerc 9y ago
  I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure windows to be on certain tags automatically, but as far as I know, there's no save state. That would save me ages when I undock. It supports launching apps when it starts as well. VSCode sounds like windows, though. I know the OSX space of tiling window managers is terrible and it's been years since I've used windows, but bugn was my goto back then.

by tmerc 9y ago

ge96 9y ago

Haven't heard of awesome-wm. I like that idea. Can you save it like a state you know, open some applications, I usually have to open my note taking "app" haha gedit, and then VSCode, FileZilla (I know not a CD), local Host directory and browser. That's a project for me an excuse to learn how to use Electron. Thanks for the tip I like that. I only know how to shift app tabs left haha alt+shift+j but the combining is cool alt+v and then alt+w or alt+e, I was stubborn before about using it but Ubuntu's dealt UI is so bloated. One thing I was looking into was time-tracking how long a panel was active for working on different projects (clients). But I usually max out my 8GB RAM too many chrome tabs.

tmerc 9y ago
I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure windows to be on certain tags automatically, but as far as I know, there's no save state. That would save me ages when I undock. It supports launching apps when it starts as well. VSCode sounds like windows, though. I know the OSX space of tiling window managers is terrible and it's been years since I've used windows, but bugn was my goto back then.