alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”

    • Owl
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      27 days ago

      BSPWM + lxqt/ xfce (lxqt recommended)

      You’ll also need SXHKD for better and easier shortcut handling

      • @kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Linux developers can’t name their products any better than they name their variables.

        “Programming done, time to publish, now it just needs a name…” briefly pauses, then smashes face into keyboard… “There! … ehh, no, still missing something.” clicks random spot, types X… “Perfect! Send it!”

        • @pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          26 days ago

          For a long time I used the music player ncmpcpp. The name makes perfect sense if you already know what it means and how it relates to other things.

            • @pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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              36 days ago

              It did make sense at one point. They implemented a music player with a daemon part and a client part, so from that you had the mpd server and mpc client. Someone wrote an ncurses frontend for the client, naturally called ncmpc. Iirc that person abandoned it and someone else took over with a new iteration. ncmpcpp. But it really is a bad name.

        • Ephera
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          37 days ago

          On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

          It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.

        • Owl
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          17 days ago

          Technically you could changethe window manager of KDE Plasma to BSPWM, but I wouldn’t recommend it as it is such a tightly knit package