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Re:Berry is a healthy, byte-sized window manager written in ... by fsckboy on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:11PM (#31710966)
let's say you have a set of apps for a given context tiled on your screen, a shell or two, debugger, ide, editor, webpages for documentation...

now you want to look at a different context with the same windowing complexity. You just switch to a different workspace and it's all laid out for you. Then you can go back.

How would you accomplish that without workspaces?

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Re:Berry is a healthy, byte-sized window manager written in ... by pluc on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:41PM (#31711182)
I get that use case, but I haven't seen the need for a different context with the same windowing complexity. I'm not sure I would want a set of windows I can confuse with another? Maybe for working on different branches/environments or when running complex infrastructure diffs?
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