> I personally think names for tags are very silly, and a waste of > time. I'd like to see it all happen without any text entry... just > straight key commands as above. Remembering that 0 is web apps, 1 is > games, 2 is vi, etc, is probably the easiest thing I have to keep in > my head with running a *nix system. My usage patterns change > constantly, making names even more silly. A overview window that > shoes all 10 tag screens and which windows are in which would be > fantastic.
And this was the same kind of "wrong" thinking (not derogatory... just not "correct")that I was employing while the tags were getting themselves straightened out. You have described desktops/virtual workspaces named [1-9] - not tagging. I did the exact same thing during the switch. Try naming tags. And, yes, use "names" not numbers. That worked out really well for me - as soon as I started doing that, I started seeing the tags for what they were where... rather than an address for a desktop, it was like associating metadata with a window. It's a hurdle at first, admittedly (the manual bit) - but the $MODKEY-Shift-t works wonders. Do like Stefan suggests - tag your mail windows (I have two), browser windows, etc. If you do remote work, tag all those windows/consoles with the foreign machine name. And then jog over to the Code Snippets page on wmii.de. There's a nice bit of stuff there that maps $MODKEY-[0-9] to the first, second, third, etc. tags that appear in the bar. After that all starts to feel "normal" - then set up rules in wmiirc. You'll have already gotten comfortable with the selection mechanism, the idea behind it and (most importantly) the tag names you use most. Plus, using $MODKEY-Shift-t it's easy to "multitag" by using tab to autocomplete the existing tag, and a +, and then the other tag name. At least that's how I approached tagging. Unfortunatley, I'm hooked. But, yes, it's a different way of visualizing your system. Once that's out of the way, it's quite intuitive. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
