Comment by bee_rider
3 years ago
I’m boring, I just use i3 or sway, like the rest of the hipsters. So, no recommendation I guess, since it is just a window manager.
3 years ago
I’m boring, I just use i3 or sway, like the rest of the hipsters. So, no recommendation I guess, since it is just a window manager.
Haha thanks, I think I'll finally give those a try, I've been trying to make KDE work, and it just doesn't.
Just an idea, if you find yourself unable to warm up to tiling:
It's stupid, but I've been using this for a couple of years now.
That’s interesting. So do you start the programs floating, and then put them in tiling mode sometimes? Or just avoid tiling completely? (It seems like that would be giving up a lot of the specific strengths of the window manager… but of course if it works for you, it works!)
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Oh cool, didn’t realize i3 could be used non-tiling. Thanks!
I recently-ish switched to Ubuntu and tried to give their weird gnome a try, but it just became a nightmare of addons and then the addons started conflicting or something. Anyway I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not smart enough to use a desktop environment.
For my laptop, I’ve used i3, polybar (to get pretty bar at the top), rofi (a fine launcher), autorandr (detect and switch to my monitor and turn off laptop screen when I plug in), and… a random Arch Linux forum post to get automatic accelerometer based screen rotation going.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243005
I bet there’s a fancy tool out there but this script seems to work after a little customization, and it is only a couple lines, so it can be understood!
Yeah, the reason I’ve been trying to make KDE work as a daily driver is because I got sick of Ubuntu’s gnome. Thanks very much for all the tips!