The tiling subdesktop has to columns or 'tracks'. There are two 'subdesktops', the floating and the tiling Larswm support multiple screens and virtual desktops. So it seems we cannot completely get by without X, which leads us to the question: how can you work efficiently with windows only with the keyboard? It seems that the model of free floating, overlapping windows can not work well here.īased on code from 9wm, a UNIX port of Plan9's 8 1/2 window manager Mplayer comes in a version with no GUI elements GUI bedient werden,Īnd there are some helpful extensions for mouseless browsing in Firefox, and of course they're the Vimperator and Conkeror browsers that are modeled after vi's and Emacs' keyboard bindings respectively. Qiv and feh are two image viewers that offer good keyboard control, There are, of course, also some applications that have really good keyboard control, e.g. Most image viewes and video players under Linux need X, so they need to open a new window which then has to be moved, resized and closed with the mouse. Web browsers for the console may be fast, but they're also quite restricted and don't work for all web sites.

On the other hand, the console only allows for a very limited multimedia experience: Midnight commander instead of nautilus/dolphin For most common tasks there are equivalent text oriented programs you can use, i. One strategy would be to completely drop GUI applications and X11 altogether and only work on the console. When you're working primarily with the keyboard, using the mouse and especially frequently switching between the two input methods can be annoying.

Windows tiling window manager