KindaABigDyl

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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

why can’t I just stop forcing myself to this PITA and just use the mouse faster?

You know that i3 has support for mouse, right? Really good support in fact.

I use the mouse all the time in tiling window managers, not exclusively keyboard shortcuts, especially for well, window management. Win + Right Click and drag to resize and Win + Left Click to move a window into place. However, unlike traditional desktops, when I move the window, it snaps to a reasonable and consistent tiling location instead of just left/right snapping, a random place it can get covered up, or tiled using some awful extraneous system like KDE's tiling system or some of the Windows little GUI popups. I also sometimes use floating windows.

The nice thing about tilers is they can do traditional usage well whereas traditional desktops cannot do tiling well. Heck, dynamic tilers can't even do tiling well.

I often make use of very complex layouts like this:

--------------------------------------
| Win A              | Win B         |
|                    |               |
|                    |---------------|
|--------------------| Win C | Win D |
| Win E              |---------------|
|                    | Win F         |
--------------------------------------

That many windows with different priorities and visible at once is just not possible to do in traditional desktops or even in dynamic tilers like DWM or KDE's Bismuth plugin.

I need something that makes window organization EASY, and that is manual tilers.

I'll have to look into the scrolling compositor. That does sound interesting.

without keeping track and managing 10 virtual desktops

Also, I don't understand what you mean here. I'm very curious to what troubles you had with workspaces.

What is there to manage? Do you not use virtual desktops at all anymore? I use them even in traditional desktops (including Windows).

It's just a place to put more windows when you run out of room on a screen or when doing a different task, what's the difficulty there?

Did you always use all 10? I don't usually need more than 2, and if I do, then I don't usually need more than 4

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Also, are you sure you want to use a tiling compositor on a gaming laptop

I can't go back to moving windows around by hand. It's so tedious. I can't stand it anymore. Even on Windows which I use for work I always install FancyWM to achieve some sense of tiling. It's just imo a superior way to use a computer.

That said, GNOME has the fantastic Pop Shell 2 which functions similar to Hyprland or i3, so that's fine on GNOME. Honestly, I'm hopeful for COSMIC and plan to try it out once it gets out of Alpha.

The problem I have with GNOME is I always end up breaking it in a way that I can't restore it. Some extension or GTK theme tweak or something, even when uninstalled, always seems to get it stuck in a bad state. It doesn't like customization. KDE does, but it doesn't have as good tiling support (there's Polonium, which is... okay).

Perhaps I'll try it again tho. I've used GNOME for several months at a time before, but I had problems when switching to Wayland a couple years ago initially (which I'm sure are fixed now).

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You can put anything in your dialog box

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I made a shortcut that's Ctrl + S to save and Ctrl + X to exit, so I don't have to remember it and have now forgotten to make room for more Rust knowledge

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So... pure functional programming w/ out state?

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Yes. The only way to send patches without something like Github is over email. I don't mind all the other stuff, but there's no other way to do PRs than over email, and I hate email. I didn't see that he gave alternatives. His preferred solution was an email

The formal PR button in a forge is a way to do that with one click, but a short email with all the same information is just as good.

Like, dawg, no it aint

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wouldn't mind doing a self-hosted git repo and only using cli if I didn't have to also use email to do so.

Seriously the worst part. Email is a technology that should be left in the past. It's just awful. There's no good way to do email.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

does represent /ð/ in this romanization, yes.

As for being thou or tu, I'd have to check my design document.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I did once make a conlang that was what an Old English-Old French creole would be like.

Here's the Sermon on the mount:

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't anarchy just against imposed hierarchy? Most anarchists I've met are okay with heirarchies that form naturally, and believe those hierarchies to be enough for society to function, hence why they call themselves anarchists, not minarchists.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Bro what? TI has like... the best docs. What are you talking about? They have the Microsoft C# docs of the semiconductor world. Clear examples, every little detail, well organized. Darn near perfect example of what to do

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