A good alternative to strictly terminal-based workflows are tiled window managers.
The big gain is that you don't have to give up all those gui apps as they blend in next to the terminal apps quite well.
The big gain is that you don't have to give up all those gui apps as they blend in next to the terminal apps quite well.
While I prefer the paradigm of tiling wms I eventually stuck with Windows (and WSL2) with its built-in window management but yeah.
My current setup uses xrandr to scale my 4k to 1440p.
It's not perfect, but it's better than other options.
It supports fractional scaling and different scales for different attached screens.. You have to tell the system you want it (`swaymsg 'output <x> scale 1.5'`) but it works.
You still need Xwayland installed for some stuff though. Most tools have adequate wayland replacements.
Adding keyboard shortcuts is easiest in window manager comparing to full desktop environment where the setting is hide behind the some Setting GUI.
Energy saving feature is basically setting P-state on Intel CPU, and does not work on AMD. You could do it manually by using kernel interface.
Dwm isn't for everybody, you modify the c source and compile to get the changes you want. The best part is that the source is small enough to understand for when you want to do something to it.
Instead of fitting all your windows within your monitor's boundaries, PaperWM sets all windows to take full height and gives you an infinite horizontal axis to arrange them on. I'm thoroughly enjoying it and vastly prefer it to tiling and floating windows