Re: Re: [9fans] missing applications

[Harri Haataja <harriha@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:33:55PM -0600, andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> >The point is that the window manager will do the window management
> >and I simply don't.  There's nothing to do once it's running. Except
> >select the window you want, the workspace you want and pop-up/down
> >any temporary ones. I *never* in my life want to move or resize
> >another window. I hate it. I will never have a window (partially)
> >obscured by another one. I switch contexts with practically zero
> >delay and I don't need to look for the mouse, pointer or try to move
> >anything out of the way. Ever. I love that.
>
> perhaps running acme or sam instead of rio will solve your problems?
> there everything is tiled away nicely :)

Indeed. Acme also has nice tiling wm emulation ;)
Maybe people just don't keep that many windows open or they have honking
big screens that can hold all the things in view at once. That would
explain the feature popping up in a place where contexts pile up quickly
like in an editor. Of course it's much more. And kind of MDI. More old
conflicts lie that way.

--
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
		-- Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett (pqf)