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> If you're not on a tiling WM, you're constantly switching between the mouse and keyboard. Can someone explain what the author is talking about? I'm not up t
by thought_alarm 16y ago
> If you're not on a tiling WM, you're constantly switching between the mouse and keyboard.
Can someone explain what the author is talking about? I'm not up to date in the latest Linux WM fads. (honestly, I thought the problem was finally solved years ago)
When I'm working, 95% of the time I launch apps and select windows with the keyboard, on both OS X and Windows.
- silentbicycle 16y agoA tiling window manager (such as dwm, wmii, awesome, ion, and xmonad) automatically tiles windows for you, and has multiple workspaces. Usually, you can just switch between them by alt-1 to alt-9, move windows between workspaces w/ shift-alt-1, etc. If you're mostly working with shells & reasonably large emacs / firefox / etc. windows, they're really nice. With a little muscle memory, the whole window UI thing suddenly becomes a nonissue. If you ever used ratpoison, it's a better design in the same general space. I'd personally recommend xmonad if you use Haskell, dwm otherwise.