I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

Re:I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager by p2t2p on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:01AM (#25443322)

Right now I have two columns. Wide, left with Idea and right with 3 terminals vertically. I can switch to any terminal with single key press, without needing to look for it among other windows when alt-tabbin. I also have multiple tags and on other tag I have a similar arrangement for another project that I keep an eye on. On second monitor I have 3 fullscreen apps on separate tags - zoom, slack and spotify and each one of them has a dedicated shortcut.

When I was using mac, I had similar setup using snap and keyboard maestro, only I had to ctr-tab in iterm like crazy if I had several projects. Not anymore.

Overall I feel that I manage all of it way less and have to go through way less stuff to find what I need.

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Re:I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager by nicolapcweek94 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:46AM (#25443927)

This sounds similar to what I do with Emacs, having it fullscreen with a code buffer mostly full window with occasional split columns on the right for terminals, magit etc - also controlled by keyboard, obviously. Though I see how having a separate shortcut for telegram, spotify, vivaldi etc would be useful if I wasn't already using them within Emacs!

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