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You probably answered your own question there. They might want to tile things other than a terminal. I used to use Ion3 on a tiny Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D to di
by rimunroe 6y ago
You probably answered your own question there. They might want to tile things other than a terminal.
I used to use Ion3 on a tiny Fujitsu Lifebook P1510D to divide the screen into quadrants containing things like a terminal (mostly used for IRC), Pidgin, a browser, and whatever videos I might be watching.
- streb-lo 6y agoAs soon as you are tiling mouse-driven GUIs your having to do more work to traverse your screen with the mouse vs a stacking wm where your stacked GUIs can be flipped through with keyboard shortcuts. I guess it makes sense if you have a bunch of apps you're predominantly reading from instead of interacting with but in my experience those are predominantly terminal UIs anyways.
- akho 6y agoQuadrants with the same stuff are easy to do in Windows (with Win+arrows). The tricky part is in various autolayouts &c. But that is also where usefulness diminishes for non-terminal stuff. GUI apps usually expect stacking.