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>Another issue with tiling window manager is that they place new windows in seemingly arbitrary positions Well we have Xresources to to solve this, but the Gno
by jmclnx 3y ago
>Another issue with tiling window manager is that they place new windows in seemingly arbitrary positions
Well we have Xresources to to solve this, but the Gnome and KDE people ignore a standard that has been there for years.
And Fluxbox solves this issue by having point/click option to allow you to say "Make this window show up here with this size". But as usual, many GNOME/GTK and some KDE applications ignore that to.
So off we go, invent a new standard that will make my (our?) lives harder.
- ecliptik 3y agoAfter spending some time customizing my .Xresources I was amazed on how much functionality it has [1]. The learning curve is a bit steep, but after taking a few minutes to understand it, there's a lot it can do in a simpler manner than more modern configuration and tooling. 1. https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/doc/ixresources/xres.html https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/doc/ixresources/xres....
- bpye 3y agoDo Xresources and friends make sense now Wayland is finally usable for many folks? Maybe having some sort of environment agnostic config would be good - even with Wayland - but I don’t know that a suitable one exists today.
- jmclnx 3y agoWayland is not usable for me, I am on a BSD. So my answer is yes, Xresources makes sense for me :) Does Wayland even have a method to specifying canned Window Position ?
- mariusor 3y agoIt does, kind of, statically you configure positions manually in the configuration file, or dynamically, you can use its API through a pipe to save positions and then restore positions.
- johnny22 3y agoOne can run wayland compositors on freebsd, and I even saw an inprogress effort for openbsd.