Hello, Anyone using tabbed as their primary window manager?
If so, do you tab your tabs? How far does the rabbit hole go? Regards, Lee On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 February 2014 20:26, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> dwm has extremely limited stacking which is less efficient (in terms >> of user interaction not computer performance) then i3's tree based >> model, which allows substacking quite easily. > > dwm has this limitation by design. dwm consists of two window > management principles: the primary window management is based on tags, > the secondary on layouts. > > As these two principles are kind of two-dimensional already, adding a > third level of substacking (meaning tabbing) sounds pretty cumbersome > and less efficient to me. > > I don't really buy into the claim that tabbed users have actually > understood how dwm's tagging is supposed to work. Having said this, I > have never used tabbed. > > But I don't care about the existence of tabbed either as long as dwm > is not polluted with similar features. > >> If tabbing is just a form of window management, why don't we seperate >> all tiling modes into separate programs. > > That's not the point. The point is that having more than two window > management principles is not neccessary. If you need tags, layouts and > tabbing to organize your work, then you are using tagging incorrectly. > >> I do think that managing windows is part of the window manager, as >> multiple st instances are each a window, it seems best to tab them >> with the window manager. > > I agree with the first part of your sentence. > > Best regards, > Anselm > > PS: I'm back btw. >
