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> I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway. Although
by arzeth 5y ago
> I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway.
Although I have a very good eyesight, my eyes tire fast when I look at small things.
I browse HN with 240% Zoom on 23" 1920x1080; vscode: font "Iosevka SS16", font size 33px.
So because of that I use i3 WM (...I have never used other tiling WMs):
On every virtual desktop I press Win+w (or sometimes Win+e if the monitor is rotated) to enable "Tabbed container layout"
and then I can switch between windows immediately by Win+Left and Win+Right.
With Win+w all windows use 100% of the display width and 99-100% of the display height (I also set border width 0px and disabled taskbar/statusbar), i.e. they are maximized.
Windows have no their own title bar, but you can see the window titles on the very top of the screen.
Since a window can use more space, I can use bigger fonts without being shown almost nothing.
Well, KDE probably too has an option to launch windows maximized by default, but probably not the other features.
> 1. It's usually a whole new set of keybinds I have to learn.
I use the i3's defaults:
1) Win+1..9
2) Win(+Shift)+Up/Down/Left/Right
3) Win+D (similar to Gnome's ALT+F2)
4) rarely Win+Shift+Space (disables tiling for a window)
5) rarely Win+Space (enables tiling back for a window)
That's all (also Win+Shift+j to reload the i3 config but I didn't remember this hotkey for years).
But if I had a 46" 4K monitor, I would use i3 as most others do (i.e. multiple windows are shown at the same time).