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The name brings memories. Without screenshots I can't tell if it's the same thing, but I have memories of a similarly named WM from ancient days. I wonder if i

The name brings memories. Without screenshots I can't tell if it's the same thing, but I have memories of a similarly named WM from ancient days. I wonder if it could be used for a project I had in mind a while ago, in which a small number of apps would run maximized each one in its own page in a tab control contained in a single full screen window, without any controls, so that they can't be closed or moved by mistake, and the user would use the tabs to bring to front each one (just like pages in a web browser), then any alert, file requester or anything opened from one app would open modal and bring the relevant app to front. The purpose would be to ease the reach for apps without having to maximize, roll down, bring to front etc. as quick as possible without having to look for them. My first use case would be a music synthesizer built with a Chromebox or similar mini PC in which I would run Alpine Linux plus Yabridge and a small number of native/WINE plugins, so that it can be also used live with minimal reload time in case of problems, power outages, crashes etc. and defaulting to a well defined state.

Zababa 4y ago
i3 and dwm have a system of tabs/tags, which are kind of like virtual desktops/workspaces. The default keybinds are something like windows+0 to see tag 0, windows (called "mod") + 1 to see tag 1, etc. mod + f will make the current window fullscreen. It's portably possible to make a script to launch all the applications you want in their specific tags, make them fullscreen, and then disable the fullscreen switch. This also reminds me of an article where someone explained that they replace their use of alt+tab with various keybinds because alt+tab depends on what applications are currently open and where you are, whereas a keybind can be "alt+w will open show me my web browser, or open it if it's not open". In that case too the idea was to not have to search for your windows.

Zababa 4y ago

i3 and dwm have a system of tabs/tags, which are kind of like virtual desktops/workspaces. The default keybinds are something like windows+0 to see tag 0, windows (called "mod") + 1 to see tag 1, etc. mod + f will make the current window fullscreen. It's portably possible to make a script to launch all the applications you want in their specific tags, make them fullscreen, and then disable the fullscreen switch. This also reminds me of an article where someone explained that they replace their use of alt+tab with various keybinds because alt+tab depends on what applications are currently open and where you are, whereas a keybind can be "alt+w will open show me my web browser, or open it if it's not open". In that case too the idea was to not have to search for your windows.