| I've spent too much time manually moving, resizing and aligning windows before switching to i3wm and tabbing between randomly popped out overlapping windows is not exactly pleasant either. Now everything is fixed in muscle memory, and I certainly don't need to expand any thought arranging a workspace for some task. I can do it with even looking at the screen, so predictable and easy it is. I can't imagine doing the workspace arrangement out of muscle memory with a mouse. I also like how customizable i3wm is. That helps with orientation even more. For example I have my browser instances running under different system users, to have some relatively strong isolation between various work environments, and i3wm allows me to highlight the browser name and show a system user name it's running under in the titlebar. https://megous.com/dl/tmp/98179a60c08bbdb1.png If a command running in a terminal fails or is still in progress I get notified: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/bc3e6c16abad3713.png I don't even need to switch between terminals to see if something succeeded, or is still in progress. Small but invaluable productivity things that I can't get elsewhere, without sacrificing something else. :) |
