On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Work recently bought me a 30", 2560x1600 monitor. I've never had such a
> massive screen before and I'm having trouble adjusting.
>
> Should I switch to a tiling window manager? Which one?
>
> To complicate matters, I use a laptop with the screen. When I'm on the
> road, I want to be comfortable using just the laptop screen. When I'm in
> the office, I want the larger screen to become my primary screen.
>
> I think I want a scriptable window manager so that I can write some code
> to define my preferred behavior.
>
> Or maybe I want a third party app to handle the scripting, like Devil's
> Pie or https://github.com/TheWanderer/stiler
>
> What else should I be doing to take advantage of the new screen?
>
> Bonus points for solutions that work with Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise
> Desktop. I'm getting sick of constantly upgrading my system, so RHED's
> slow release cycle is looking mighty tempting.
On a more serious note, my typical solution is to use something as
close to the distro default as possible. Of course it's never
optimal, but I find that spending a lot of time on settings and
configuration and whatnot tends to be premature optimization, and it's
both expensive to find what "works" for you and expensive to maintain,
as you often have to continually fiddle as things change, adjust
things again after every re-install, and feel awkward when you switch
to someone else's less-customized station.
If the default software with the default configuration still feels
really awkward after taking a while to try to find a good way to work
with it, I tend to look for small configuration changes or additional
software to alleviate the most awkward problems. Only when I feel
there are serious problems or I just want to geek out and play with
new things do I go further into non-standard configurations.
Now, that said, I do like to geek out a lot. But I try to confine
that to my playing unless I find something that really does feel like
it'd be worth the effort to overcome the costs. Usually I end up
going back to defaults anyway, but there are a few modifications that
I tend to make to the various kinds of systems I use to fix the major
problems I have with them.
The upshot of this is that I'm comfortable and productive with most
Windows and Linux systems (as long as their users haven't heavily
customized them!) and I don't feel compelled (most of the time,
anyway) to whine about the terrible software I have to use. ;)
--Levi
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