Post #3167015

No no. Manual tiling works far better for me than the automated control in i3/sway. This is because I use some established layouts, for example Emacs Window with Rust code in the right half, in the left either firefox with docs, or a shell running cargo test, or another shell running jiujiutsu commands, or refreshing test files, and so on. And I switch rapidly between these all the time. A tiling WM makes much better use of screen estate, especially on my 40 inch 4K screen, but also on the laptop. I do most of the time programming, writing or reading, and for this, it is ideal to switch views back and forth with a single keypress. I like to focus on one thing at a time, and this is required if I want to work in a nice flow state. For this, StumpWMs ability to switch workspaces fast is great. I found it is great to automate frequent actions with wm-generated input from the wm. Say I am in the browser and want to capture the current URL for a project-specific bookmark list. So, I make s function that goes to the address bar, selects all, copies to clipboard, selects or creates an emacsclient window, finds a file called bookmsrk.org, pastes the URL there and lets me add a description. An inportant general fact is this: Things that you use all the time, do not necessarily have the same shape and UI as things that one uses once every three months. For the first, terminal interfaces with a lot of hotkeys might be suitable, for the latter, perhaps GUIs with menus.