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There are only two polished window managers on the market, windows and OS X. And of those windows come out way ahead. A window manager that doesn't handle mult

by tjoff 14y ago

There are only two polished window managers on the market, windows and OS X. And of those windows come out way ahead. A window manager that doesn't handle multiple monitors well in 2012 is just sad...

blacksmith_tb 14y ago
OS X handles multiple monitors well enough, or did you mean Gnome? Windows UI is polished and has some good conventions, except that I keep trying to do things in terminal that aren't there...
- Locke1689 14y ago
  If you full screen a video on one monitor in os x the other one blanks out. It doesn't stretch the video or anything, it just blanks it. I think vlc can prevent that, but it's still annoying.
  - jrajav 14y ago
    It isn't just fullscreen video, it's fullscreen anything. Anything that doesn't exhibit that behavior is using a fullscreen "hack," i.e. the way they did it before Lion.
- byproxy 14y ago
  Try using Windows Powershell. I think some common Unix commands are supported.
drivebyacct2 14y ago
First of all, direct multi monitor support is handled in a different layer than the window manager. At best, maybe you meant the overall desktop environment, but again, I don't know how you can make such absurd, outlandish claims. Please, name something you can do in Windows or Mac and I'll tell you how easy it is to accomplish with my setup in Linux. And also, how is Windows better than Mac in this regard? You have a massive problem with "my opinion is obviously objectively right".
- freehunter 14y ago
  One thing that I hated about Windows pre-7 and Linux until Ubuntu was taskbar objects. Why do they need to take up so darn much space? I worked for hours laboring over Gnome 2 to get it to work like Windows 7, with icon based taskbar objects, trying every program and customization I could find. I finally got it just as Unity was announced. I was ecstatic that I could get rid of Gnome 2 and have a desktop that looked how I wanted right out of the box. But let's not get into how slow Unity is on hardware that blazes with Gnome 2 or Windows... if I could easily get the same thing but much, much faster and something that lets me put that taskbar anywhere I want on the screen, I'd be happier.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    >One thing that I hated about Windows pre-7 and Linux until Ubuntu was taskbar objects. Why do they need to take up so darn much space? I worked for hours laboring over Gnome 2 to get it to work like Windows 7, with icon based taskbar objects, trying every program and customization I could find. I finally got it just as Unity was announced. I was ecstatic that I could get rid of Gnome 2 and have a desktop that looked how I wanted right out of the box. Indeed. And actually, after installing 12.10 on, to be fair, new hardware, Unity was just as fast as anything else. I do despise GNOME 2 and especially its taskbar window list. I'm glad I've found someone else as pained by it as I.
  - morsch 14y ago
    If you wanted a dock aka icon based taskbar on Gnome, there were plenty of options before Unity came around. Out of the box they all work pretty much the same. They remain good alternatives if you want to customise. I used to use AWN, worked fine, but I'm fairly happy with Unity. It works very well for window management, and that's really all I want from a dock. I think the old-school task bar is potentially more useful because it lets you see the window titles at one glance. But it just doesn't scale well beyond a dozen or so windows, either all the text is elided or you end up grouping windows by program at which point you might as well use a dock.
    - drivebyacct2 14y ago

by tjoff 14y ago

blacksmith_tb 14y ago

OS X handles multiple monitors well enough, or did you mean Gnome? Windows UI is polished and has some good conventions, except that I keep trying to do things in terminal that aren't there...

Locke1689 14y ago
If you full screen a video on one monitor in os x the other one blanks out. It doesn't stretch the video or anything, it just blanks it. I think vlc can prevent that, but it's still annoying.
- jrajav 14y ago
  It isn't just fullscreen video, it's fullscreen anything. Anything that doesn't exhibit that behavior is using a fullscreen "hack," i.e. the way they did it before Lion.
byproxy 14y ago
Try using Windows Powershell. I think some common Unix commands are supported.

drivebyacct2 14y ago

First of all, direct multi monitor support is handled in a different layer than the window manager. At best, maybe you meant the overall desktop environment, but again, I don't know how you can make such absurd, outlandish claims. Please, name something you can do in Windows or Mac and I'll tell you how easy it is to accomplish with my setup in Linux. And also, how is Windows better than Mac in this regard? You have a massive problem with "my opinion is obviously objectively right".

freehunter 14y ago
One thing that I hated about Windows pre-7 and Linux until Ubuntu was taskbar objects. Why do they need to take up so darn much space? I worked for hours laboring over Gnome 2 to get it to work like Windows 7, with icon based taskbar objects, trying every program and customization I could find. I finally got it just as Unity was announced. I was ecstatic that I could get rid of Gnome 2 and have a desktop that looked how I wanted right out of the box. But let's not get into how slow Unity is on hardware that blazes with Gnome 2 or Windows... if I could easily get the same thing but much, much faster and something that lets me put that taskbar anywhere I want on the screen, I'd be happier.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  >One thing that I hated about Windows pre-7 and Linux until Ubuntu was taskbar objects. Why do they need to take up so darn much space? I worked for hours laboring over Gnome 2 to get it to work like Windows 7, with icon based taskbar objects, trying every program and customization I could find. I finally got it just as Unity was announced. I was ecstatic that I could get rid of Gnome 2 and have a desktop that looked how I wanted right out of the box. Indeed. And actually, after installing 12.10 on, to be fair, new hardware, Unity was just as fast as anything else. I do despise GNOME 2 and especially its taskbar window list. I'm glad I've found someone else as pained by it as I.
- morsch 14y ago
  If you wanted a dock aka icon based taskbar on Gnome, there were plenty of options before Unity came around. Out of the box they all work pretty much the same. They remain good alternatives if you want to customise. I used to use AWN, worked fine, but I'm fairly happy with Unity. It works very well for window management, and that's really all I want from a dock. I think the old-school task bar is potentially more useful because it lets you see the window titles at one glance. But it just doesn't scale well beyond a dozen or so windows, either all the text is elided or you end up grouping windows by program at which point you might as well use a dock.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago