I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

  • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • SteveTech@programming.dev
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          1 year ago

          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:

          • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            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

  • jaykstah@waveform.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha

  • puzzlebox@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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 :)