I used to use i3 exclusively. For what it is, it's one of the best out there. It's still installed on my netbook due to how lightweight it is, and the netbook's trackpad is really shitty. I got tired of it on the desktop though. The tiling is great, but the lack of eye candy bored me after a while. I use Deepin now.
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I tried it in response to this post. I've long wanted to try a tiling manager. My problem is it kills the transparency of my terminal. Kills both Terminator and Gnome-terminal. I rutinely tile terminals both with Terminator and Tmux and that's what I use tiling for so I third solution, that I admit has its areas values of value over the other two (more reasonable/quicker tile switching and creation and evenly sized vertical tiles), it isn't worth the loss of transparency for the nearly zero gains if you have the other tools.
I wish I could run a single i3 window in cinnamon for the rare occation that I need it. If I could replace Terminator with a single i3 window that emulated an i3 manager I would absolutely do that.
That or we need a another special key that your virtual terminal will pick up and send through ssh isn't typically relevent to a terminal so that tmux could be more like i3 I would love that.
Linux should stop mapping both ctrls and alts to the same event. They can be the same button in windows but we want more special buttons. We could have five instead of three. Maybe we should reinvent the purpose of the insert key while we're at it. Any user advance enough to change his insert mode is doing that a different way. It's just sitting on keyboards not doing anything for advanced or noob user.
I never noticed any transparency loss, because that is a feature I never used. Terminology allows for setting a terminal background, so I just did that and forgot I had a desktop background for a while.
Also, I use my insert button all the time, but not for any mode switching (Vim handles that). Shift + Insert pastes text from the clipboard in both Linux and Windows.
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I used to use i3 exclusively. For what it is, it's one of the best out there. It's still installed on my netbook due to how lightweight it is, and the netbook's trackpad is really shitty. I got tired of it on the desktop though. The tiling is great, but the lack of eye candy bored me after a while. I use Deepin now.
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I tried it in response to this post. I've long wanted to try a tiling manager. My problem is it kills the transparency of my terminal. Kills both Terminator and Gnome-terminal. I rutinely tile terminals both with Terminator and Tmux and that's what I use tiling for so I third solution, that I admit has its areas values of value over the other two (more reasonable/quicker tile switching and creation and evenly sized vertical tiles), it isn't worth the loss of transparency for the nearly zero gains if you have the other tools.
I wish I could run a single i3 window in cinnamon for the rare occation that I need it. If I could replace Terminator with a single i3 window that emulated an i3 manager I would absolutely do that.
That or we need a another special key that your virtual terminal will pick up and send through ssh isn't typically relevent to a terminal so that tmux could be more like i3 I would love that.
Linux should stop mapping both ctrls and alts to the same event. They can be the same button in windows but we want more special buttons. We could have five instead of three. Maybe we should reinvent the purpose of the insert key while we're at it. Any user advance enough to change his insert mode is doing that a different way. It's just sitting on keyboards not doing anything for advanced or noob user.
[–] ThisIsMyRealName ago
I never noticed any transparency loss, because that is a feature I never used. Terminology allows for setting a terminal background, so I just did that and forgot I had a desktop background for a while.
Also, I use my insert button all the time, but not for any mode switching (Vim handles that). Shift + Insert pastes text from the clipboard in both Linux and Windows.