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Tomáš<p>fishriotwm</p><p>twm configuration with plan9's rio window-border operations and default cwm keybindings</p><p>(It's basically cwm that you can also use with just a mouse)</p><p><a href="https://nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/twm/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nein.triapul.cz/openbsd/twm/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/rio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rio</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/twm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twm</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/serpico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serpico</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>Kinda frustrated with the state of <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/desktops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desktops</span></a> in <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> / <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> / <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a></p><p>You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/i3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sway</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/awesomewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awesomewm</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/evilwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evilwm</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bspwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bspwm</span></a>, or whatever you like, BUT you will <em>constantly</em> be scratching your head when <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> and <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gtk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.</p><p>It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/icewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IceWM</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a>, or <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/windowmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowMaker</span></a>.</p><p>P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a>. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, <em>and</em> extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).</p>
Daniel Wayne Armstrong<p>Day 08 of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/31DaysOfFreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>31DaysOfFreeBSD</span></a> :freebsd:</p><p>Today I'm exploring the portable version of OpenBSD's cwm (calm window manager). First impression is... What a lightweight delight! ❤️ It includes enough out-of-box to be immediately useful, and together with excellent man pages cwm(1) and cwmrc(5) its proving easy to customize in a single plain text config file:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/windowmanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windowmanager</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
Bradley Taunt<p>Working on putting together a guide for running a core system "only" OpenBSD daily driver (ie. cwm with sane defaults, etc)</p><p>Hopefully get some free time in the late evenings this weekend to put it together :) (teaser screenshot attached)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a></p>
Arosano@hachyderm 🇮🇱🇩🇰<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wdormann</span></a></span> I suggest you change to the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> where this is easily done with the keyboard.</p>
R. L. Dane :Debian:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@slembcke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>slembcke</span></a></span></p><p>I mean, I totally get that if you only ever use gnome.</p><p>If you don't care to use Gnome because:</p><ol><li>Poor contrast between active and inactive window titlebars is a usability nightmare that was fixed in the early 1980s and broken in the past five years for no good reason</li><li>Client-side decorations are another foolish kill-usability-for-shallow-aesthetics fad that needs to die</li><li>You want a configurable system. It's <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a>, dagnabbit.</li><li>You'd prefer a more lightweight system (not as big a deal as it was 5 years ago, props to them for making it a lot more efficient)</li></ol><p>..and so you find yourself using <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a>, or <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a>, or <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sway</span></a>, or heck, <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/jwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jwm</span></a>, <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/twm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>twm</span></a>, <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/ctwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ctwm</span></a>, <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/icewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>icewm</span></a>, or whatever...</p><p>...and you open a Gnome app. What do you get? An application that's integrated nicely with the rest of your system? Heck no! You get an app that sticks out like a sore thumb. Honestly, everything that happens <em>within</em> the application window is up to the devs, and I don't begrudge whatever style you use there. But taking over the titlebar I simply will not tolerate.</p><p>Honestly, if not for the CSDs, I'd never complain about Gnome. I'd use whatever (ethical) solution works best for my workflow and go about my day. But now using gnome apps feels like it's an advertisement for a cult-like mentality. I open Gnome Web, or Gnome Disks, Gnome Boxes, or whatnot, and boom, I'm lost. Where's my titlebar color? Gone. Which window is active? No blasted idea.</p><p>Sorry for the rant, I just really can't stand that. Other than that, I could say a lot of positive things about gnome. I'm glad they're there. But the mentality is feeling more cultish/corporate all the time.</p>
smxi<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://linuxmom.net/@vkc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vkc</span></a></span> your youtube channel is great, your present enthusiasm reminded me of my past enthusiasm. Very refreshing.</p><p>But what you should really try is <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>, which is a lovely little gem. But not with default <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, that's...not as lovely. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/i3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3</span></a> is nice.</p>
sotolf<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxcast</span></a></span></p><p>Well, there is a reason I neither use GNOME, nor DWM, or ST :p</p><blockquote><p>I have recently re-tooled EVERYTHING to <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland</span></a>: <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a> -&gt; <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sway</span></a>, and <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a> 5.27 to Wayland(-mode), even though it's a touch buggy, and there are things I rely on like Xbanish that just have no replacement in Plasma+Sway. My only XOrg box now is my <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> box (now running i3, formerly <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>).</p></blockquote><p>Exactly, there is the reason why I stay on Xorg, there is no real compelling reason to switch.</p><blockquote><p>Other than the issue of screen tearing when watching videos, and some purely theoretical performance improvements,</p></blockquote><p>Yeah, I've heard a lot of people <em>talking</em> about that, haven't really seen it in practice, might be that my brain just learned to compensate from watching too many ultracompressed, full of artifacts videos when I grew up :p</p><blockquote><p>So... uhh.. Wayland is THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, but just as we have been suspecting for the past decade, the future kinda sucks. 😛</p></blockquote><p>Well I guess I'll leave the future up to the youngsters :p They can enjoy it as they want to, I'll stay here using my old tools for the time being at least :p</p>
R. L. Dane :Debian:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/@sotolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sotolf</span></a></span></p><blockquote><p>&gt; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> I have tried dealing with suckless software and patches, and the more patches you bring into st the more wacked out it becomes, it starts having weird issues, some of the patches don't gel well with each other, and hand merging them are not that much fun.</p></blockquote><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxcast</span></a></span> recently compared Gnome (needing extensions to be usable) to suckless' tools (needing patches to be usable), and now I see how that can go both ways (positive and negative). One time 5 years ago when I was trying to get along with Gnome, I had two conflicting extensions that filled up /var (which was /, derp) within minutes with log messages. <em>sigh</em>. As an old friend would say rather dismissively in these situations, "NEXT VICTIM!"</p><blockquote><p>&gt; Xorg is great, it still works, and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands, I don't see the value of wayland, sure it does things differently, but in my experience, even after well over a decade of work on it, it still doesn't really work well, it makes things harder for no good reason just "security" well if someone gets so into my box that they can execute code on it I'm screwed no matter what I have on there, I just don't really get it.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Maybe some day it will catch up, but today, no today is not that day :p</p></blockquote><p>I have recently re-tooled EVERYTHING to <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland</span></a>: <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a> -&gt; <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sway</span></a>, and <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a> 5.27 to Wayland(-mode), even though it's a touch buggy, and there are things I rely on like Xbanish that just have no replacement in Plasma+Sway. My only XOrg box now is my <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> box (now running i3, formerly <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>).</p><p>Other than the issue of screen tearing when watching videos, and some purely theoretical performance improvements, I'm no better for being 99% Wayland now. Sway is great, and does absolutely everything I need (even though it's very slow to reload compared to i3wm for some reason), but that's only because the Sway community has done a lot of hard work to re-implement everything that the i3 community needed/wanted (or provide hacks/scripts to do the same). KDE+Wayland is not nearly as nice an experience.</p><p>So... uhh.. Wayland is THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, but just as we have been suspecting for the past decade, the future kinda <em>sucks</em>. :P</p>
R. L. Dane :Debian:<p>Changed my <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> writing-dedicated box from running <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> to <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a> -- I like cwm, but it's still a bit too mousey for my taste.</p><p>I also changed all of my fonts (both xterm and i3/i3status) to be bitmapped (the "fixed" font), so everything is looking REALLY crisp.</p><p>Maybe I'm getting quite crochety, but at this point, I think I'd much rather have a lower res screen with crisp bitmapped fonts than a crazy high-res screen and vector fonts.</p><p>The only thing I'm missing is <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emoji</span></a>. My i3status looks like<br>cpu 31% | load 0.80 | mem 9% | dsk 13.4% | net Gallifrey 82% | chrg 89% 0.00W | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM</p><p>instead of<br>cpu 05% | 📈 load 0.29 |  28.5% |  disk 59.7% |  Gallifrey 67% |  Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://snac.notnull.space/paul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>paul</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ireneista</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@PetraOleum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PetraOleum</span></a></span> </p><p>Personal preference; I kinda like them. Where I can't get them (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>), I always make sure the active window border is a bright color like a golden yellow or a bright purple.</p>
Ríni Fogol<p>My <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/CWM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CWM</span></a> config: <a href="https://extrowerk.com/2023-07-25/Desktop-BSD.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">extrowerk.com/2023-07-25/Deskt</span><span class="invisible">op-BSD.html</span></a></p>
Tomáš<p>Watching videos with <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/dmenu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmenu</span></a> and <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/links2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>links2</span></a> </p><p>This is the barebones script for video-watching from my ratpoison companion <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/serpico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serpico</span></a>, adapted for dmenu.</p><p>Except for the search option, a valid video url must be selected, either with cursor keys or hovered over with a mouse.</p><p>Links2 must be focused for it to work, so execute the script externally (either with a delay, or through a key-binding). The example uses a <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> keybiding Super+l.</p><p><a href="https://triapul.cz/files/prog/links-vid.ksh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">triapul.cz/files/prog/links-vi</span><span class="invisible">d.ksh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/invidious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>invidious</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/links2gang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>links2gang</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/ksh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ksh</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a></p>
Arek Bekiersz<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://SSelf.co/@Sbravadour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Sbravadour</span></a></span> Scared &amp; confused, good word choice for me too (and a good alt. title for a Led Zeppelin song!). Wish You all the best. I know U are in the UK. My father &amp; uncle both live there, but I cannot travel now. I will be in 🇹🇩 in the summer, we’ll see..</p><p>For <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LeSabre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeSabre</span></a>, it’s <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CWM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CWM</span></a>’s Scott fault, as he &amp; Dean always said they’re built as tanks. Yes, but restoring an old <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/landYacht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landYacht</span></a> is an undertaking. Even if mine was in OK shape. Did it for kids.. This is what will remain of me. Cheers!</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@thelinuxcast" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxcast</span></a></span></p><p>What about scripting up a little indicator in bash and using a tiny terminal window as an indicator?</p><p>That's how I implemented my own i3bar replacement when I was playing with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>.</p><p>I wrote a script that put the xterm window along the bottom of the screen and ran the script within it to generate the "bar" text. </p><p>Then I just tweaked the cwm rules to ignore that one window. </p><p>Never used qtile, though.</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p>Went back to using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a> on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> is nice, but I missed having real tiling/tabbing.</p><p>Glad I explored it though, and did all the config tweaking I could to make it work for me. Ultimately, it wasn't as good a fit, and that's ok.</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p>Man, my little <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/termbar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>termbar</span></a> solution in cwm is working so well, I forgot I wasn't running <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3wm</span></a> for a little while there.</p><p>My only real beef with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a> is that it doesn't raise windows they get focus. You have to $mod-Lclick them. A little annoying, but that does just reinforce my alt-tab addiction, lol</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@suprjami" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>suprjami</span></a></span></p><p>...</p><p>On <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, alt-tab complements tiling quite well, and if you only have two windows open in a window group (read: workspace), alt tab is a lot faster than i3's $mod-[j;], because you don't have to think about which *direction* in which to go.</p><p>I do agree, however, that using alt-tab multiple times instead of organizing windows in more structured ways is kinda dumb</p><p>Thanks for the reminder about vim-sneak, though! Need to install that.</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fedops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fedops</span></a></span></p><p>I thought there was a manpage for it, but I can't seem to find it. I figured I might have been thinking of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, which has a very nice cwmrc manpage.</p><p>apropos i3 |grep ^i3 |awk '{print $1}'<br>i3<br>i3-config-wizard<br>i3-dmenu-desktop<br>i3-dump-log<br>i3-input<br>i3-migrate-config-to-v4<br>i3-msg<br>i3-nagbar<br>i3-save-tree<br>i3-sensible-editor<br>i3-sensible-pager<br>i3-sensible-terminal<br>i3bar<br>i3lock<br>i3status</p>
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tailswish.industries/users/tulpa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tulpa</span></a></span></p><p>I kinda wish skippy worked better with cwm. It's been very flaky the times I tried it.</p><p>If you're not familiar with it, it's a program that implements a Mac OS X Exposé-like feature where it presents all windows arranged so they don't overlap when you hit a hotkey.</p><p>skippy-xd works pretty well in Linux, but I wasn't able to get skippy (in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> ports) working in a stable manner.</p><p>If I spend more time in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, I might just try compiling skippy-xd from source.</p>