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Posts Tagged ‘Window Manager

Using Ion, a Tiling Window Manager

Posted by: kahgoh on: 24 February, 2009

When working in Linux, I usually have multiple windows open. I always need at least one terminal to compile and execute commands. I would usually use Vim to edit my files too. Most likely, I would also have Firefox open with some information. During my work cycle, I constantly need to use these three windows.This means I need to be able to see the contents of these windows. The default Gnome and KDE window managers are rather inefficient at this because they can stack windows on top of one another. To make them non-overlapping, I have to individually resize the windows.