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| - | ====== Another diversion... I3 Tiling WM ====== | ||
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| - | --- //John Pumford-Green 09/10/22 13:58// | ||
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| - | After setting up Alpine and some other console-mode software I got the urge to try going back to another window manager I've played with in the past - [[https:// | ||
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| - | I used it on my touchscreen Raspberry Pi that used to live in the LandRover as a control panel for the Icom IC-M710 HF radio - as it's good for simple mouse-less control. | ||
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| - | I delved into the usual round of other tiling WMs: | ||
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| - | * I3 | ||
| - | * DWM | ||
| - | * Herbstluftwm (HLWM) | ||
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| - | After setting up some things on I3 to work the way I wanted I didn't see the need to re-invent the wheel by spending time learning/ | ||
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| - | There are some snippets of info and configs on a page in the Wiki: | ||
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| - | I have it setup on my laptop which runs Antix Linux from a USB memory stick, without using the Hard Drive, and with Persistent Storage working well it's a great, fast and responsive, Linux-on-the-desktop user machine. I'm limited by how much software can be installed, as it all has to fit in 3GB of RAM once it boots. There' | ||
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| - | I'm also setting I3 up on the old laptop I have in the shed as my main fixed machine - which is where I'm learning to write 6502 Assembly, and using I3 tiling WM is great for this - one large tile can have a VIM session to edit the source code, smaller tiles with terminal/ | ||
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| - | Linux is just //so// versatile! | ||
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