Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 19, 2011, at 18:10, 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?

I like i3.  I didn't care for the automatic tiling in the couple of others I 
tried.  i3 is a manual tiling wm.  Version 4 is soon to be released.  It 
changed enough, that if you try it, get the release candidate (tree-pre4).

http://i3wm.org/tree/

> 
> 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.

My laptop has an intel video chip and defaults to this.

> 
> I think I want a scriptable window manager so that I can write some code
> to define my preferred behavior.

It can be scripted using IPC calls or using a wrapper for simpler scripts.

> 
> 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.

I have been running it on RHEL6 beta at work.  As soon as we get our yum repos 
at work for CentOS 6, I'll install with that.

> 
> 
> /*
> PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
> Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
> Don't fear the penguin.
> */

/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/

Reply via email to