For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha
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Because not everything can be viewed in terminal, crab_man
I've tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works... 😏
You could probably get it to work in a framebuffer... 😏
Probably not though, although some apps like mpv, (maybe vlc) and mplayer can, plus QT and a GTK fork have support too.
Mplayer can render to the terminal using aalib
I guess if you have to use a classical terminal or terminal emulator, but I was more talking about drawing apps directly to the Linux console without X or another sort of windowing system.
For example this is Midori, a web browser:
Well yes I thought you were using emulators. When I was a kid I would frequently break X11 so I spent much of my time on the console framebuffer. All I needed it to to is let me watch TV and videos till I was bothered to fix the config file for X
I use both 🤷♀️
Why do we need tmux if we have tiling window managers?
Every once in awhile i think „yeah, let‘s move to a tiling wm“….but i find myself going back to gnome shortly after, because i can‘t get really used to it, although i really like the concept of tiling WMs…who knows, maybe today is a good day to try it again :)
You can have both, https://github.com/pop-os/shell
just installed it and currently in testing. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hell yea! I've used PopOS for a couple years now and it's pretty fantastic. Being able to enable/disable it on the fly is super great, and you still have all the conveniences of a full DE.