• Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I honestly love i3. It doesn't do everything but it lets me spam workspaces to my hearts content. I have awful short term memory so its great when I need to go back and forth repeatedly to look at a reference.

    • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Fucking yes. I also have Compton (picom) installed and just switching between workspaces is so addictive. Besides, it's just really efficient for the kind of stuff I do on my laptop, and the keybindings are a blessing.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I have compton just for transparent terminals. Probably not a wise use of resources but w/e. I love the ease in adding key bindings through the i3config and not needing to learn an additional programming language to modify it slightly. I have a friend who runs awesomewm and he's like "oh yeah just write lua scripts to move the time over here". I dont have the time for that, basic i3status is plenty fine for me.

        • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          I don't like transparency much but I noticed a little tearing and lagging on Firefox if I have vlc running on bare openbox and i3. Goes away when I have Compton so I use Compton.

          Also yeah, i3 probably has the easiest config of them all. Openbox is easy too but XML is a bit of an eyesore. I like both of them, and openbox is even lighter but I really need my tiling.