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> I mean, if you look at the vast majority of screenshots, you don't even see that much work. The obligatory IRC client, fake-GUI music players and/or file mana

by jff 12y ago

> I mean, if you look at the vast majority of screenshots, you don't even see that much work. The obligatory IRC client, fake-GUI music players and/or file managers and probably an editor with the configuration file or some minor coursework open. It's not exactly Scotty and his Mac Plus. Well, this applies to all WM screenshots ever, not just tiling window managers. The main problem with WM screenshots is that you want to show how it looks, show off some features, but my actual work is generally spread across many virtual desktops, each with just a few windows (mostly xterm)

mhd 12y ago
Quite a lot of screenshots do cover more than one desktop, plus often a "clean" shot to show off the otherwise covered minimalistic and/or anime background pic. I blame it more on the fact that many of the tiling wm crowd are quite young and don't do that much actual work with their machines, especially if they just switch to Linux because of other screenshots of said style. Or just not being able to show e.g. proprietary code…
- chriswarbo 12y ago
  I'm "quite young" (26), although I don't know what you'd class as "actual work" (do Web development and PhD research count?). To be honest I like using tiling WMs because they're not magic, whizz-bang things. I could lay out my windows better with a stacking WM (eg. when badly-behaved apps make assumptions about their size and put buttons off the edge of the screen), but a tiling WM does just well enough that I really don't care about my window layout anymore. Whatever Xmonad does is usually fine. Likewise, with a tiling window manager I really don't care about background pictures anymore. Before using tiling WMs I used to use chbg to cycle through a directory of images, and use (fake, then composited) transparency in terminals, etc. These days my machines boot straight into Xmonad with st and emacs open; my only "background" is a black screen for a couple of seconds while they start up. Any screenshot I take would just advertise whatever fullscreen application I have open at the moment, along with a line of text at the top of the screen with a clock and counters for my unread email and failing tests.
  - mhd 12y ago
    > I'm "quite young" (26), although I don't know what you'd class as "actual work" (do Web development and PhD research count?). Certainly. It's always hard to judge age on the 'net, but looking at the relevant discussions on reddit or linux forums, you'll find an astonishingly uniform spread of applications, and if you find any code that's not the configuration of the window manager, it'll be some kind of programming 101 material. This, along with the "just installed Linux, this is my new awesome desktop" makes me a bit biased towards assuming a large quantity of teenagers -- also more likely to generally proactively show their neat desktops. This doesn't mean that every tiling wm user is that way (I certainly am not), just like pinterest isn't a good indicator about the prevalence of refurbished palettes in American bedrooms... I would say that you probably have more in common with corporate windows users who have their apps running fullscreen all the time, too and that way don't ever changed their backgroudn from Napa valley, than with the "unix ricers" who regularly apply patches to their minimal wms that leave large borders around their windows, so that their background is still evident.

by jff 12y ago

mhd 12y ago

Quite a lot of screenshots do cover more than one desktop, plus often a "clean" shot to show off the otherwise covered minimalistic and/or anime background pic. I blame it more on the fact that many of the tiling wm crowd are quite young and don't do that much actual work with their machines, especially if they just switch to Linux because of other screenshots of said style. Or just not being able to show e.g. proprietary code…

chriswarbo 12y ago
I'm "quite young" (26), although I don't know what you'd class as "actual work" (do Web development and PhD research count?). To be honest I like using tiling WMs because they're not magic, whizz-bang things. I could lay out my windows better with a stacking WM (eg. when badly-behaved apps make assumptions about their size and put buttons off the edge of the screen), but a tiling WM does just well enough that I really don't care about my window layout anymore. Whatever Xmonad does is usually fine. Likewise, with a tiling window manager I really don't care about background pictures anymore. Before using tiling WMs I used to use chbg to cycle through a directory of images, and use (fake, then composited) transparency in terminals, etc. These days my machines boot straight into Xmonad with st and emacs open; my only "background" is a black screen for a couple of seconds while they start up. Any screenshot I take would just advertise whatever fullscreen application I have open at the moment, along with a line of text at the top of the screen with a clock and counters for my unread email and failing tests.
- mhd 12y ago
  > I'm "quite young" (26), although I don't know what you'd class as "actual work" (do Web development and PhD research count?). Certainly. It's always hard to judge age on the 'net, but looking at the relevant discussions on reddit or linux forums, you'll find an astonishingly uniform spread of applications, and if you find any code that's not the configuration of the window manager, it'll be some kind of programming 101 material. This, along with the "just installed Linux, this is my new awesome desktop" makes me a bit biased towards assuming a large quantity of teenagers -- also more likely to generally proactively show their neat desktops. This doesn't mean that every tiling wm user is that way (I certainly am not), just like pinterest isn't a good indicator about the prevalence of refurbished palettes in American bedrooms... I would say that you probably have more in common with corporate windows users who have their apps running fullscreen all the time, too and that way don't ever changed their backgroudn from Napa valley, than with the "unix ricers" who regularly apply patches to their minimal wms that leave large borders around their windows, so that their background is still evident.