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[SwayWM] simple and productive! (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml
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Haven't changed anything major in a while and feeling very productive. Feel free to ask for any details.

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I always see these four screen arch setups, is this standard for arch? What am I looking at here? I've never moved away from debiam so I don't know what I'm missing

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    you can do this on debian, too. It's not specific to the OS -- it's the window manager. Specifically, this kind of window manager is called a tiling window manager.

    Basically it just organizes your windows slightly differently. Instead of having them floating around like in Windows, Mac, or traditional desktop environments like GNOME, it tiles them -- when you open a new window, it automatically split screens it.

    window managers also don't by default have things like a battery display or a wi-fi applet, like your typical desktop environment does -- you have to do that stuff manually by building some sort of status bar (there are various apps that provide status bars).

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