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by monsieurbanana 89 days ago
Agree on all the points, except 4. There are even people out there who use lynx as their primary browser :)

Although while I usually like tabs for most apps, I don't use tabs for terminal and rely either on window manager or tmux. I guess the difference is that I often want a mix of tabs and having multiple terminals side by side, whereas I don't really need that for a browser (or very seldom)
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hombre_fatal 89 days ago
Which window manager do you use?

Sway had the better, though often tedious, WM tab solution that I've tried. Niri had a useless one.

I really tried to love sway splits and tabs for terminal windows. But I finally admitted I'd rather just alt-tab to a few different terminal apps, each with its own concern (maybe one per project, this one for my remote machine), and best of all, each with its own internal tabs.

That said, tabs in kitty and tmux, for example, are so basic that you don't necessarily lose much if you were to use WM tabs instead.

On the other hand, tabs in iTerm2, Ghostty, Cmux, probably macOS Terminal -- a bit more powerful and intuitive since you can do things like drag them, and they can show info like terminal state. And in some of those apps, they can be displayed vertically which is my favorite.

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monsieurbanana 88 days ago
My favorite is still AwesomeWM, although I haven't used it in years. Nowadays I'm on mac and my "tiling manager" is about 6-7 custom functions I wrote in hammerspoon. Basically just tile left/right, full size, "reasonable" size + centered, and a shortcut that distributes all my apps in the virtual spaces I've assigned to them.

One of the reasons why I use tmux rather than i.e. iterm2 tabs is that I don't have to change any of my habits or learn extra shortcuts when I'm working with ssh.

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