You are the WM
blog.z3bra.org
blog.z3bra.org
I'm tempted to try this because it's just so UNIXy, but I probably have "better" ("important" and less fun) things to spend time on.
Ouch! The pain I see the guys go through in the office who have OS X is unenviable. I'm very happy with Debian on my laptop. Everything works, it works well, and most importantly it works to my specifications.
What's needed is a successor written as a Wayland compositor and tools that communicate via a d-bus interface to instruct the compositor where to place the windows.
Poe's Law really has me here.
"tering" is a Dutch word having meanings of "damnit" or "uncountable".
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tering! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tering
In case this is useful to others:
I have to use Windows 7 at work. I recently found bug.n, a flexible tiling window manager made with AutoHotkey.
“Oh snap! I should totally uninstall my WM!”
Secondly window moving/resizing, 1. windows aren't full screen, 2. you can drag the title bar with the 3rd mouse button to keep the z-order the same. 3. if you try to drag to resize off the side of the screen, the window moves in the opposite direction so it still gets bigger. 4. 3rd button click on a scroll arrow goes in the opposite direction, 3rd button drag on a scroll bar allows 2d movement.
Thirdly: No menu bars, everything is a pop up menu, an infinitely large Fitts target. Also you can 3rd button click on a menu to keep it open so you can select another menu option.
Fourthly: The taskbar shows applications, not windows, to open a new document you click the taskbar icon. Drag to taskbar icon opens file in that application, drag to a window on that application inserts/merges/etc. Application level tasks on on the taskbar menu, quit, preferences. Document level tasks are in the document menu.
Obviously this requires application support, can't do it with just an X11 window manager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROX_Desktop uses some of the ideas, although the project seems dead.
Another good link is http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/03/toolbox.html where he describes some unusual but useful commands.
But now I have 8-16G or more RAM in my computers. I also tend to have a nice graphics chip, even if it's from Intel it's better than what I had 10 years ago. So why bother with this type of minimalism if you don't need it?