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Comment by _mhyx | Hacker News Reader

Why would you write a blurb for a window manager, without screenshots? That's literally all it does!

Screenshots for a Window manager is pretty useless. I mean, it's just application windows. A window manager itself is not graphically visible. The only way you see it is in how it positions windows based on your commands.

I dig it, but a tiling WM is a fundamentally different paradigm than the standard WMs. I haven't used one, so I had to look up screenshots. If you're writing ad copy - which this fundamentally is - you need to consider these things.

Pretty much the only GUI that's StumpWM and not an application is a mode-line, notifications and help.

My setup looks like this currently:

https://klibert.pl/statics/images/stumpwm.png

and here is my mode-line config:

https://klibert.pl/posts/stumpwm-better-modeline.html

Anyway, StumpWM is great, but not because it's a tiling WM. It's absolutely fantastic because it's a live environment: you can attach a Lisp shell to your running stumpwm instance and immediately get a full-blown programming and debugging environment. See here: http://malisper.me/2015/07/07/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompil... (and subsequent posts in the series) for a good introduction to what it really means to work inside a live environment.

The problem with this is that it's very, very hard (if not impossible) to show the dynamic, live environment with still images/screenshots. I think it would be good to record a screencast showing a bit of programming and debugging in StumpWM. I wanted to do this a few times in the past, but by the time I remembered I should start recording I already fixed whatever I wanted to fix...

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