I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

  • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
    20·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      You could probably get it to work in a framebuffer… 😏

      Probably not though, although some apps like mpv, (maybe vlc) and mplayer can, plus QT and a GTK fork have support too.

        • SteveTech@programming.dev
          2·
          1 year ago

          I guess if you have to use a classical terminal or terminal emulator, but I was more talking about drawing apps directly to the Linux console without X or another sort of windowing system.

          For example this is Midori, a web browser: