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The way dwm works, you have a main window and you have a stack. It is normal to have windows you are not using in the stack. The small window is indeed not very
by yiyus 6y ago
The way dwm works, you have a main window and you have a stack. It is normal to have windows you are not using in the stack. The small window is indeed not very useful, but it is still more than the icon used in other places.
- metalliqaz 6y agoWindows has a stack too. Most recently used on top. Older windows are either partially or completely covered, but they always have an icon accessible. Would I dedicate a section of my screen to windows down the stack? No, I don't think I would. I guess I just don't get the zen of dwm.
- yiyus 6y agoI have tried both workflows. I used a (very) customized dwm for years, and use windows nowadays. Windows works, but dwm is really dynamic. Screenshots don't do it justice. With windows, once I have a large number of windows, working in several things at the same time, I'm really afraid of losing that setup (for example, leaving my laptop unattended for a while and see that the system had the great idea of rebooting while I was gone). With dwm, I had the layout I wanted with much less effort. It adapts to what I'm doing. It's very fluid. None is perfect, both have pros and cons. And I understand some people don't like some of the design decisions in dwm like editing source to configure and so on, but dynamic window management is a powerful concept.
- metalliqaz 6y agoya know it's funny, in my current windows 10 system, I sometimes don't notice the auto reboots, because it reopens my windows, which are usually just browsers on a normal day.