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You've probably had 20 other people tell you about this; but switching to a tiled window manager will remove that whole 'careful placement of windows' thing fro
by Dav3xor 17y ago
You've probably had 20 other people tell you about this; but switching to a tiled window manager will remove that whole 'careful placement of windows' thing from your life in a very positive way.
- nuclear_eclipse 17y agoI've tried tiling window managers multiple times, and each time find issues with them that frustrate me until I switch back to Gnome: - No simple way to keep a small IM status window open in the corner of a workspace - Limited support for resolution-dependent windows, such as videos, games or remote desktops - No notification bar for status apps to utilize, such as pidgin or network-manager - No integration with modern desktop environment features or tools, such as media keys for rhythmbox, launchers like gnome-do, network-manager, automatic disk mounting, screen lock, etc Gnome and compiz have solved a lot of problems that actually make a Linux desktop usable in modern contexts.
- Dav3xor 17y agoThose are all very fair criticisms, but by simply running gnome-panel with Xmonad, you get 80% of what you want. Apologies for the evangelism. :)