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a66ey 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 she/her

Great benefit of going #nojavascript #nojs on your #SmallWeb is being able to have full access to your web over experimental or retro #os. I just did a merry #solstice status update on mine. From #mothra. Running on #9front in #qemu running on top of #twm in #termux running on low end #android tablet. And yes, you can have decent user experience on mouse oriented system without a mouse using just trackpad / touchscreen.

So, merry Solstice. May your knitting and your code flow freely.

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Brian Hayes

The wonderful thing about Linux is that there isn't one way to do things, but rather a plethora. This is even true for Tiling Window Managers! On Linux, you can use i3, bspwm, dwm, awesomewm, xmonad, sway, hyprland, river, and many many others. I personally use bspwm, but have used others in the past, and they all provide that minimalist, keyboard centric workflow. How about you? Which Tiling Window Managers have you tried?
#twm #tilingwindowmanager #windowmanager #desktop #workflow

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R. L. Dane :Debian:

@slembcke

I mean, I totally get that if you only ever use gnome.

If you don't care to use Gnome because:

  1. Poor contrast between active and inactive window titlebars is a usability nightmare that was fixed in the early 1980s and broken in the past five years for no good reason
  2. Client-side decorations are another foolish kill-usability-for-shallow-aesthetics fad that needs to die
  3. You want a configurable system. It's #UNIX, dagnabbit.
  4. You'd prefer a more lightweight system (not as big a deal as it was 5 years ago, props to them for making it a lot more efficient)

..and so you find yourself using #KDE, or #i3wm, or #sway, or heck, #jwm, #twm, #ctwm, #cwm, #icewm, or whatever...

...and you open a Gnome app. What do you get? An application that's integrated nicely with the rest of your system? Heck no! You get an app that sticks out like a sore thumb. Honestly, everything that happens within the application window is up to the devs, and I don't begrudge whatever style you use there. But taking over the titlebar I simply will not tolerate.

Honestly, if not for the CSDs, I'd never complain about Gnome. I'd use whatever (ethical) solution works best for my workflow and go about my day. But now using gnome apps feels like it's an advertisement for a cult-like mentality. I open Gnome Web, or Gnome Disks, Gnome Boxes, or whatnot, and boom, I'm lost. Where's my titlebar color? Gone. Which window is active? No blasted idea.

Sorry for the rant, I just really can't stand that. Other than that, I could say a lot of positive things about gnome. I'm glad they're there. But the mentality is feeling more cultish/corporate all the time.

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Felix Palmen 📯

@dani Haha 😎

I'm running a (heavily configured) #fvwm3 here. This screenshot was just for demonstration that #dos2ansi and #showansi don't depend on any configuration, so this was a completely unconfigured X session in #Xephyr, which by default runs #twm.

You can even see the test mode in #xterm can only use 8 colors (because this is what the default xterm #terminfo entry announces), still the #xterm windows launched by #showansi have full color support, they explicitly set the terminal name to "xterm-256colors".

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