News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces. Parent comment

Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by tjr225 on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:40PM (#17682963)
I've always wondered what a tiling window manager provides over tmux. This isn't a rhetorical question, I've never used a tiling window manager.

Anyway, a separate space with full-screened iterm2 + tmux on macos is my preferred way to work. I can swipe left to check slack, browser and then swipe right to go back to my terminal.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by slrz on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:15PM (#17683248)
A window manager manages windows. All of them. Tmux can't manage your PDF viewer or Firefox windows.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by certifiedloud on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:14PM (#17683243)
With i3, all windows benefit from the splitting/tiling behavior. Not just terminal windows.
[ Parent | on HN ]