Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment?

Posted by neytsevi58 on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:09PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Looking into focus oriented desktop environment for GNU/Linux, something minimalistic like Sway but easer to use, that let user use the mouse, similar to much easier to install MNM Reform environment (see https://twitter.com/mntmn/status/1406573765643939840/photo/1)

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by approxim8ion on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:38AM (#27864647)

Openbox is probably the easiest and most minimal. You can bring it up to the level of something like LXDE or XFCE very easily, or just keep it minimal as it is.

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by mustafa_pasi on Saturday July 17, 2021 @03:13AM (#27864048)

There's loads of them.[1] Seems like you want the ones with "graphical configuration". Openbox, Fluxbox and others allow everything to done using the mouse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_manager...

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by nextos on Saturday July 17, 2021 @07:06PM (#27869500)

I'm very happy running StumpWM on NixOS without desktop enviroment (just Emacs, Firefox and XTerm).

StumpWM is written in Common Lisp and trivial to customize even if you don't know Lisp.

StumpWM has a really good and simple implementation of manual tiling. After using XMonad for many years, dynamic tiling never clicked for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by neytsevi58 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:56PM (#27978161)

This looks nice. Hopefully it can be used with a mouse, hybrid way, more clicky less terminally.

dwm is something that I tried but is too complicated to customize.

Thanks, will try!

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by shrimp_emoji on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:12PM (#27862211)

Gnome 3?

It expects you to only have one monitor (on a tablet), which is as focused as it gets. :p

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by neytsevi58 on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:39PM (#27862398)

Gnome 3 can never be focus oriented, too many bars, also you need high resolution monitor for it

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Re:Ask HN: Focus Oriented Desktop Environment? by approxim8ion on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:20AM (#27891947)

How high? I'm running it on a 1366x768 screen, which most people today wouldn't call high-res.

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