I always see these four screen arch setups, is this standard for arch? What am I looking at here? I’ve never moved away from debiam so I don’t know what I’m missing
you can do this on debian, too. It’s not specific to the OS – it’s the window manager. Specifically, this kind of window manager is called a tiling window manager.
Basically it just organizes your windows slightly differently. Instead of having them floating around like in Windows, Mac, or traditional desktop environments like GNOME, it tiles them – when you open a new window, it automatically split screens it.
window managers also don’t by default have things like a battery display or a wi-fi applet, like your typical desktop environment does – you have to do that stuff manually by building some sort of status bar (there are various apps that provide status bars).
Yep, this is just the scratchpad (i.e. drop-down/Quake terminal) feature from Sway. The windows are arranged purely for aesthetics here. But I do use the scratchpad heavily in daily usage. It’s helpful to have a main terminal that can quickly be summoned on any workspace.
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I always see these four screen arch setups, is this standard for arch? What am I looking at here? I’ve never moved away from debiam so I don’t know what I’m missing
you can do this on debian, too. It’s not specific to the OS – it’s the window manager. Specifically, this kind of window manager is called a tiling window manager.
Basically it just organizes your windows slightly differently. Instead of having them floating around like in Windows, Mac, or traditional desktop environments like GNOME, it tiles them – when you open a new window, it automatically split screens it.
window managers also don’t by default have things like a battery display or a wi-fi applet, like your typical desktop environment does – you have to do that stuff manually by building some sort of status bar (there are various apps that provide status bars).
Yep, this is just the scratchpad (i.e. drop-down/Quake terminal) feature from Sway. The windows are arranged purely for aesthetics here. But I do use the scratchpad heavily in daily usage. It’s helpful to have a main terminal that can quickly be summoned on any workspace.