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Getting I/O errors uploading the asciinema cast, but here's a preview: https://streamable.com/4hoqh

You have an interesting setup for your desktop environment, care to share some of the details? I see an XFCE icon but I'm not sure if it's only XFCE being used there.

I use xmonad but with xfce4-panel. Dotfiles: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/dotfiles

How are you opening new windows? Keyboard shortcuts? What shortcuts are available?

I just click anywhere there's not a window. Didn't wanna add shortcuts as I'd need some way to escape them

"Make sure to pipe the output to /dev/null when running this program. This is because the redox ransid ibrary keeps spamming stdout..."

Signs of quality software.

The readme does make it seem like a super serious project.

> If you're seriously considering using this I recommend going to a psychiatrist. This program is so pointless, I even needed a mouse pointer to help me out find a point.

the author makes it sound as if this is an elaborate joke of some sort, but if that's the case, someone else has been laughing for almost two decades: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/

greetings, eMBee.

This is fantastic. I'm not installing it.

This is cool! I wanted to do something similar a while back, but decided I want out of the term, instead of trying to bring more robust UIs into my term.

My goal was to have an editor, like Vim/Kakoune, use a window manager like tmux to provide more rich GUI features, such as popups and overlays. All of that in an ideally easy to use dev UX, making scripting information plugins intuitive and easy.

As mentioned, in the end I just said I probably want a GUI proper.

Very cool! :)

Some DOS textmode IDEs used to have window management like that.

This is neat :)

Check out dvtm for a tiling version of this. Some people pair dvtm with dtach to get just the parts of GNU screen that they care about.

I want you to know that I love you for doing this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Now I have to go read Frankenstein, so thanks for that as well. :)

https://archive.org/details/frankensteinorm02shelgoog/page/n...

The use case is brilliant:

> Use case? If you're seriously considering using this I recommend going to a psychiatrist. This program is so pointless, I even needed a mouse pointer to help me out find a point.

It is hilarious.

If it has session save/restore, it can compete in the same space as screen/termux/byobu.

It doesn't. Would be an interesting thing to add perhaps, but then I'd need to add some kind of daemon I believe. I also don't want to compete with the existing software as there's no winning over them.

Ah, reminds me of the old Turbo UI.

A few years back I got RHIDE working again and... Went back to emacs.

Sorry for asking something that might be obvious to others, but what is WM?

Window Manager, basically a program that manages your windows. (This is more well-known in linux because you can swap to different window managers regardless of distribution, while in Windows and Mac you’re forced to have one canonical window manager provided by the OS)

That's cool!

Are there other versions of this idea around? Maybe older, more stable and trustworthy solutions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)

Searching for it on Youtube brings up videos of a pretty ugly interface. With 80s style text windows.

I like OPs version because it just puts a one pixel border around the window and except everything is black.

that's a good point. i agree. but i never used twin, maybe it's configurable.

greetings, eMBee.

tmux is pretty darn neat for having multiple terminals inside one terminal, and it's tiling instead of floating. Also lets you detach sessions.

GitLab should collapse that left menu as default, just saying.

It is, at a breakpoint. Seems to be plenty of width at the point at which it expands to me.

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