The hardware level stuffs are well configured from within XFCE. They really only do the job of managing windows and nothing else. Tiling wm are not full desktop environment. Manjaro comes with an i3 flavor so maybe their default setup has everything in place? I installed the necessary packages, logged into i3 and the result was exactly the same if not worse.Īt this point I thought I got things wrong on a conceptual level. I thought I could set all those from the configurations of the tiling wm itself but there's no such option. When only tiling wm was running, screen resolutions came out wrong, multiple screens can hardly coordinate, cursor scrolled the wrong way, tap-to-click didn't work, volume keys did nothing and so many more nonsense.
I reinstalled Qtile and got serious this time. So two weeks back I felt like having a home makeover to shake my desktop up for real. There's not enough smartness found in a real tiling wm. While in XFCE, I created shortcuts to resize windows in a tiled manner. The lack of the ability to discover things by pointing and clicking was debilitating. As soon as I went from the login screen into a desktop environment running only Qtile, I micro-panicked not knowing how to operate it.
But asking emacs to manage the entire desktop feels one step too far.īut I was not serious about it then. I did consider running exwm from within emacs some time back. I chose that because it was highly recommended, apparently powerful and the fact that it's configuration script runs on Python is a great bonus. My first attempt at it was many months ago, starting with Qtile. There exist a whole class of them, but I didn't have to do much self-experimentation on the various choices on my own, Derek Taylor's DistroTube had done that so I don't have to. The solution to that is tiling window managers. I figure let's just extend the entire idea all the way to the entire desktop.
That's not the case with a typical desktop environment. In emacs windows are tiled, workspaces built in, keyboard navigation is first class citizen. Meantime the real operating system I've been actually living in is emacs. I like the well designed minimalism of it after decades of using GNOME in Ubuntu. A year or so ago my primary operating system has been Manjaro Linux, the primary XFCE flavor.
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