How good looking is Niri + Dank Shell in a scale from 99 to 100?
Niri is a revolutionary scrolling/tiling window manager, once you start using it it's difficult to switch back to gnome
#twm
As I continue to trawl through old backups please enjoy this screenshot of a NetBSD system dated Feb 2005. Not sure what I was up to, or what the system running it was.
@LaurentFr et pour la prochaine fois tu veux tenter un #twm ? :-)
I tried #TWM #CWM #CTWM #FVWM and #evilWM as well as #IceWM . It appeared iceWM had so many features from background setting, panel/taskbar customization to window decoration styles and placement. Starting to wonder if it should be called a desktop environment #DE instead of window manager #WM .
#FOSS #UNIX #BSD #LINUX
#FOSS #UNIX #BSD #LINUX
Fiz um teste rápido com o LiveCD do Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS e gostei muito do Gerenciador de Janelas. Tudo acontece sem fricção, tanto para mover quanto para redimensionar as janelas. Em sua configuração padrão, arrisco dizer que é melhor do que o i3wm na alternância entre tiling vertical e horizontal.
À época, só migrei para i3wm por causa de alguns bugs e limitações que havia no tiling do antigo Cosmic Desktop. Todos os bugs foram devidamente corrigidos e as limitações superadas.
O maior trunfo do Cosmic é a capacidade de alternância de toda a área de trabalho de Tiling para Floating Windows (e vice-versa) com apenas um comando (Super + Y).
Já a respeito de outras questões do sistema operacional, como: pacotes, compatibilidade, Wayland etc. não sei dizer. Como toda distribuição LTS, terá sempre alguma restrição quanto à atualização de pacotes.
Não penso em voltar para o Pop!_OS, mas talvez instale o Cosmic Desktop como ambiente gráfico "secundário" aqui no CachyOS. A quem for testar, vale a pena conferir as teclas de atalho:
https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-cosmic-keyboard-shortcuts/#manage-windows
You know I was using #twm window manager for several weeks as I was bootstrapping #nextspace on #freebsd and I gotta say, for minimalism, that thing is flipping nice. Virtual desktops and a max/min to full screen are the only things I didn’t get just so.
Welp, we hit 167 followers on https://www.TheLuckyMachine.com and I'm showing off a NEVER BEFORE SEEN robot artwork, as promised!
After being deeply disappointed with a commission, I decided to take things into my own hands. These 2 busts should never be separated
More art at 169 (nice)!
I said if there was 162 people following TheLuckyMachine.com I would post a robot graphite, and here is one! This is the drawing for "Server". A lot of these details get "lost" so to speak in the colorized version, but I just love how many I added.
I managed to make the cables all uniform with a fresh mechanical pencil's eraser, just running it along where I wanted the cables. I love doing eraser details. The only caveat is I have to have patience and do them last!
For 100 followers on TheLuckyMachine.com campaign I'm sharing this playlist of songs that remind me of my lil robot blorbos! I also have em all rounded up on this YouTube playlist so you can listen and enjoy! 🤖 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMelXzxBL8d80tfYn9BK_A2wXyUuq2rT
Me adelanto al #viernesdeescritorio pq sino se me olvida...
Too soon? :trollsmile:
On Niri. It's wild how TWMs are basically becoming mini-DEs. The integrated screenshot tool and overview make it really hard for me to want to switch to anything else, rip Hyprland for me. Really makes me wonder if we'll get that strange mix of TWM+DE that hits the sweetspot of minimalism, customizability, and integrated functionality. Having to also be the compositor has really changed how these things are designed for the better imo, this is awesome.
Okay fediverse, help me out here.
Find me a tiling window manager that allows me to configure a hard limit on the number of tiles per screen/workspace/whatever.
fishriotwm
twm configuration with plan9's rio window-border operations and default cwm keybindings
(It's basically cwm that you can also use with just a mouse)
Day 06 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD :freebsd:
Installed the `xorg` metapackage, a bit of configuring, and `startx` into the included TWM window manager.
Onward!
Source: https://gitlab.com/dwarmstrong/dotfiles/-/blob/master/.xinitrc.freebsd?ref_type=heads
Still setting up my #FreeBSD #Xorg Desktop PC and I've got #Xterm just how I like it for now with my favourite theme gruvbox. Strangely enough I'm still running the default #Twm as I haven't yet installed a tiling wm like #Herbstluftwm . This feels like the late 80's earlier 90's and I'm having fun learning new stuff even though I used to use Xorg for years before #Wayland . I mean I never ever thought I'd like Xterm but it's way more lightweight and powerfull than I ever gave it credit for.
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