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by pqb 1239 days ago
I noticed in one of your comments in this thread that you are looking for new ideas for UI. As other commenters have said, you might be interested in tiling window managers like i3 [0] or sway [1]. They really are a gem for productivity and sometimes for the eye [2].

However, I love the concept of a scrollable window manager like PaperWM [3]. When I had a smaller screen (24" 16:9) I complained a lot about the unused space on my screen. With PaperWM I was finally happy with its dimensions, because I could have a huge IDE on the left and a small part of terminal on the right. This way I could see if something was being printed to the terminal, while my editor took up 80% of the screen.

[0]: https://i3wm.org/

[1]: https://swaywm.org/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/

[3]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

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PaperWM is interesting. My only experience with scrolling desktops has been bad - because it was a remote desktop connection on a too-small monitor. You're fighting with windows-within-a-window quirkcs and guest/host issues. But when the entire local desktop experience is based around the idea that could change things.

I may try it out. It sounds a bit like playing a real time strategy game with a large scrollable map, something I'm very used to.