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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. */
