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More #NetBSD thoughts: I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;) But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it! It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable. I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty. Fun stuff! I should post another screenshot. ;)
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Two Normies (non-tech folks "what is Linux?") standing next to my desk at the office "HIS LOCKSCREEN IS INSANE I've NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT" Me "its just blurred when locked..." normies "NO I MEAN WHEN YOU TYPE YOUR PASSWORD WTF IS THAT" Me "???" Normies "THAT THING THAT REACTS AND SPINS" Me "??? what are you talking about? 😅" I type my password to unlock the system. Swaylock does swaylock things. Normies "O M G THAT IS SO COOL!!!" LMAO of all the things on linux, default animation setting of swaylock on manjaro-sway, seems to be what blows normie-folks minds 😂 #Wayland #sway #swaylock #linux
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Replying to @blinry@chaos.social
But also, I'm excited to tell you that https://swaywm.org (a popular clone of @i3wm@fosstodon.org) has *great* built-in multi-seat support out of the box! ✨ You can configure the seats dynamically using `swaymsg seat assign `. There's an open issue https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3491 that makes it less useful, but I wrote a small patch https://github.com/blinry/sway/tree/one-seat-per-device to fix it. #sway
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