Let's discuss unix-like GUIs without shitflinging. Show off your enviornment, no le anime girl with neofetch open shit though. I'll start with my comfy dwm setup. Textbooks/articles/whatever in assorted tags that I call over (no I don't have to hunt for shit, I have a dmenu script that lists out open windows and switches to the tag/focuses them mapped to alt+w). ctrl +alt +number merges the tags and alt tab gives me the big view if I need to see a diagram. latex compilation is mapped to f3 and zathura automagically updates, ranger automatically opens shit with zathura + tabbed so I can have less windows open. Calcurse is based, my conky cats out the to-do list so it's always on my desktop. latex is shit but I'm stuck with it, and yes I color my pages so my eyes don't die. When I need to insert images based ranger lets me easily yank the filename to primary. when I'm docked to my monitor in my room alt + brackets moves from screen to screen and focuses on the last window, making it super easy to use 2 tags at the same time without a mouse.
not pictured is my 5 dmenu scripts and my scratch pad st which is called with alt+ -, usually it's running ncmpcc or vim for quick notes. this setup installs itself with my scripts. I've tried it on >arch (pictured) >artix >void >devuan >gentoo >openbsd (kinda, I need to figure out how to use sndio with my usb DAC, need to convert my .xinitrc to whatever xenodm used because they got rid of xinit for some reason etc.)
You can kinda have the same thing with i3 but it's messy and i3 fucking sucks at multi-monitor. Also once you start using tags you can't go back to regular desktops. And yes I have gaps, cron randomly changes my wallpaper every 10 minutes and the splash of color is nice.
Are you the same autismo vim user who made that useless script to try to automate latex but just got blown out in his own thread
Grayson Howard
yeah I was totally btfo by a retard that didn't understand what a macro was, he actually thought I was copy pasting lmao. how will I EVER recover from the based nanofags
How the fuck do you do this? >tfw I actually copy paste from a template or just use gummi
Isaiah Mitchell
>30/5740 why
Sebastian Wilson
nobody who actually does work uses a tiling wm
Jaxson Gutierrez
What do they use?
Oliver Foster
Do you know where you are?
Bentley Carter
I have a shit ton more images in folders too, plus like 3 gigs worth of wallpapers. I've been keeping the same "Pictures" folder since 2013ish is why.
Ayden Hughes
Windows
Ian Wright
>i3 fucking sucks at multi-monitor
yeah, can't believe i used it over dwm for a year, switch to dwm recently and works with multi monitor better out of the box
Hunter Campbell
There is nothing productive about your faggot's dm ricing
>image browser >a fucking calendar who the fuck has that many completely unrelated windows opened at the same time. you spend 10 minutes trying to think of stuff to put in your workspace so you can take a picture of it and show it to other retards on the internet just so you could feel like less of a failure to your family. just use the default wm like every other functioning human being you sad sacks of shit
fuck you sage
Aaron Powell
having 9+9 tags is fucking amazing. It's so simple in execution too, it literally just makes a new screen. dwm is life changing when you get to know how to use it, especially tag sharing. lmao stop projecting user. Also read the damn post. Calcurse outputs to literal plain text files, which is nice for piping in and out. When you're a big boy like me you'll have things to do every day and it's nice to automate shit. ranger is not just an image browser. it lets me take a screenshot and insert it into a latex document in seconds. absolutely seething. tidy up your soul user
Any chance you can post those dmenu scripts? I've been incorporating it more into my workflow recently so some inspiration would be nice.
Josiah Lopez
Dude that script is so slow it might as well be copy paste
Aiden Morgan
it's a 10fps webm, also I was being slow to show the leader key. I ended up writing all of them on my own but the dmenu page on the arch wiki has a link to a github with some decent stuff. xdotool is your friend for window swtiching and shit
Christopher Jenkins
speak for yourself, mate
I do hope someday I will have time to achieve your level, senpai
I use i3 (no gaps) in Trisquel. Emacs is my text editor and I pretty much never had a problem with anything. Extremely productive since migrated to i3. Not posting print.
Logan Nguyen
personally I use stumpwm exwm is good, but freezing the wm every time emacs froze wasn't great
To be honest every screenshot of Ratpoison looks plain and simple so it won't make justice to this wm. But that is alright, is not for ricing, is for work. As lightweight as DWM, but with more features. And is sooooo easy to configure, hands down the easiest to script.
Are you using some specific patch for st to display images? On a vanilla, unpatched st images seem to disappear after an instant using w3m hacks, while they display properly in urxvt.
>5740 unclassified pictures I rip wg and w so I have a shitload of wallpapers. It's sorted decently well and everything is timestamped. >he doesn't have a massive local repository of wallpapers to choose randomly from.
>everything is timestamped. Of course it is, everyone's Jow Forums image collections are. You'd have to be a special kind of retard to have image rips from sites with unix timestamp filenames not timestamped.
Ryan Collins
you're just mad because I have a lot pictures and you dont
Oliver King
That made me curious how much I do have, so I looked up the 3 biggest folders: >37,735 Files, 685 Folders >25,865 Files, 135 Folders >41,261 Files, 591 Folders Well, shit. That's a lot.
Jordan Sullivan
bretty good hope you have it all backed up
Ian Green
Yeah. Almost lost it all a few months back, but I could restore it. Learned my lesson.
David Ross
what happened user
Camden Powell
HDD shit the bed (after ~10 years), no recovery tools could even recognize it. Tried the standards on linux live cd etc to no avail. Finally tried "HDD regenerator" demo and it did actually work. so I caved in, bought the license and had my files an hour later (copied on another replacement hdd I bought). bought another hdd for backup right away.
Jacob Sullivan
>I rip wg and w so I have a shitload of wallpapers would you mind sharing a dump?
Camden Perez
i have a bash function to open 9 instances of mpv tiled in a grid to replicate my bspwm ``workflow"
But isn't storing them pointless if you can't really access any specific one? You've got like 5 thousands images with names like 1548575289574.jpg.
Caleb Wilson
I like AmiWM. One of the features I like is that window and keyboard focus follows to wherever the cursor hovers. It does everything I need it to while being lightweight and easy to use. Tiling shit is a pain in the dick and I want title bars and buttons that I can click and use the mouse with. I use NEdit, Worker, XTerm with mksh, XClock, feh, and NetSurf as my main set of applications here. This setup is FAST, even on an ARM board like a Raspberry Pi.
WindowMaker is nice but all the applications and documents are so fragmented and all over the place that I've never been able to reproduce a desktop as nice as yours with it.
is dwm actually that much better than i3? I've been having issues with i3 and want to give something else a go
Caleb Martinez
What's the problem with i3 and multi-monitor? You mean the fact that each workspace is associated with a display and you have to explicitly move it to another monitor to display it there?
Christopher Rivera
Tags make workspaces completely obsolete
Jason Adams
dwm is definitely more autistic, requiring editing a header and applying patches for basic configuration, and the developer's attitude understandably puts some people off, but the core feature, that is, the way it arranges windows automatically, is imho superior to i3. That alone makes it overall better. i3 is nice and all, but I often find myself resizing and moving windows around, when this is pretty much never necessary with dwm. It just feels smoother and more natural to work with it compared to something like i3. I haven't tired other wms besides these two, but overall, I prefer dwm. Plus, by now it's a mature and stable project, not to mention that many tiling window managers in use today are derived from it.
Cwm is the chad wm. Btw I don't reall like lout syntax and how it write math. Too bad because I can't stand latex bloatness. I recently start using groff_me but while it produce bettere technical documents than ms, it's more complex
Nicholas Rogers
dmenu also has a vertical mode
Lucas Russell
>dmenu also has a vertical mode How does it look? Last time I checked, I couldn't make it look similar to what I have now.
>Full width >One column >No gap Thanks for the demo, but that's no good. Probably has gimped color modification options too.
Lucas Campbell
columns? Don't tell me you dont just type out a bit of what you're selecting. That's the whole point of this.
Brayden Anderson
>Don't tell me you dont just type out a bit of what you're selecting. Most of the time I select the first or second entry (based on usage frequency) using keyboard. I type when that's not the case.
That said, I find that columns look better, considering the length of programs' names. If dmenu allowed for customisation at least similar to rofi, I'd gladly switch.
Thomas Johnson
>tiling wm means unproductive ??????????
Jaxon Hill
theres dmenu2. dmenu is something i look at for like 2 seconds at most, I don't really care as long as it works
Xavier Jenkins
Is framebuffer not used in linux anymore? Seeing how X is bloat and all.
Gabriel Jackson
>dmenu is something i look at for like 2 seconds at most, Same for me, but I do want it to look nice. Luckily, rofi does everything dmenu does, while looking pleasantly. Fortunately, you can launch it exclusively in drun/dmenu mode if you don't need everything extra.
Dominic Long
there's nothing to discuss
xorg i3 awesome xfce
wayland sway enlightenment gnome
Liam Thomas
herbstluftwm for me. im using cmus, ranger/vim, and sxiv.
