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You’re talking about the benefits of tiling window managers compared to floating window managers. The question was instead “You say Darktile is ‘designed for ti
by chrismorgan 5y ago
You’re talking about the benefits of tiling window managers compared to floating window managers. The question was instead “You say Darktile is ‘designed for tiling window managers’; what does that actually mean? How is it different from other terminal emulators?”
- csande17 5y agoWhen I hear that a terminal is "designed for tiling window managers", I expect that it: - Doesn't do any kind of tabs, or split view, or switching between different "buffers", under the assumption that you use your window manager for that stuff - Always fills the entire window with the contents of the terminal, regardless of what size the window is (e.g. non-integer multiple of size of a character cell), and doesn't draw its own window decorations - Launches very quickly - Generally has a flat, minimalist aesthetic. Uses (ideally configurable) keyboard shortcuts instead of a toolbar, menu bar, or right-click menu, and is configurable by editing a file. Some terminals are like this already, and I don't know how well Darktile lives up to it. But it's a very different design direction from, say, GNOME Terminal.