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Are you arguing for mass appeal or out of your own interest? If the latter, you can opt out of unity and just use something like i3 which I find I am very prod
by platz 13y ago
Are you arguing for mass appeal or out of your own interest? If the latter, you can opt out of unity and just use something like i3 which I find I am very productive with.
- virtualwhys 13y agoi3 is truly incredible; wrap the Gnome monstrosity under the covers and have nothing but tiling WM goodness left over. i3 = huge win
- stormbrew 13y agoI would honestly pay money for a proper, relatively simple, DE written around i3. I like tiling because it makes me productive and helps me organize my desktop, not because it gives me a hard on to not be able to use my volume button or to have firefox look incredibly ugly.
- platz 13y agoSeems like those people tend to use the OS as their DE and eschew integrated IDEs. One pane for tests, one for grep/ask, one for vim/emacs, shell, etc...
- virtualwhys 13y agoI'd actually like to go the other way, a Gnome-less setup. Have seen some interesting setups with Awesome WM to that affect. Bit too lazy/would like to keep coding and not spend weeks replacing the good in Gnome with whatever the alternatives are.
- abind 13y agoI do this with XFCE and it works really well. You just have to prevent xfce-panel and xfwm from starting up and autostart i3 instead. Replacing i3 with xfwm on the fly also works like a charm, I can toggle between tiling and floating WM's using keyboard shortcuts.
- stormbrew 13y agoWhen I try to use xfce components they interfere a lot with keyboard shortcuts. I'm not sure why, but most of the gtk-compatible DEs bundle keyboard shortcut stuff with the settings-daemon, which is really the piece I miss most. It just leaves things feeling more broken to me, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
- abind 13y agoI generally add custom application shortcuts to XFCE's keyboard preferences instead of i3's config and change i3's $mod to the Alt key. Haven't had any problems of conflicting shortcuts.
- stormbrew 13y agoI much prefer having window management stuff on super since I use a lot of terminal apps where alt is important. Can't overload too much there or things get funky. And I have a lot of custom window management keycombos for i3 because the basic set are a bit bare.
- tzury 13y agoTalking my taste only. Will give i3 a try. Thanks for bringing it up to my attention.