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   Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:30 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
   when I watch stuff about tiling window managers I am already sold immediately because using the mouse sucks ass but then I see them using them and they use their mouse in the browser (???) and for stuff like spotify and so on as well. Nigga even I don't do the latter. Wouldn't a tiling wm power user have something rigged up so they don't need the (((mouse))) when they are browsing the web. One guy literally shows the docs for his OWN tiling window manager and he scrolls with the scrollwheel. Like a nigger.
   I wonder how these people traverse dirs even or play video etc.
   Seems like a pain in the ass...
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:27 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     • Ulysses
     hm. now that you mention it, templeOS was tiling, I think.
     
     I will reflect on this deep mystery...
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:27 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Ulysses
     Tiling is fine if you ditch as many gui apps as possible. Use ranger, nvim, calcurses, sc-im, compile pdfs, etc. Web browsers are about the only thing left after that. There is a vim mode extension for Firefox though.
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     Ulysses (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:28 JST Ulysses

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     i think it's a bit, like how terry used ubuntu as his daily driver
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     Ulysses (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:29 JST Ulysses

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     haha cursor move when I move mouse
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:25:29 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     • Ulysses
     right? but why use a tiling wm then, these niggas go on and on about how the keyboard is best and if you don't move around with hjkl you are ngmi and so on
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:29:36 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Vivi Nella Verita
     Yeah. It's not perfect. Everything else can work though. My ranger config is sweet af, my neovim setup also works great, my calendar can sync to caldav, and abook can also work with caldav with a wrapper script.
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     Vivi Nella Verita (verita84@poster.place)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:29:37 JST Vivi Nella Verita

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     @Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
     
     browser vim extensions kinda suck

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:38:44 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Ranger file browser. It's fast af, can have multiple tabs, and can be hot keyed. You can also write extensions.
     
     I have hot keys to run scripts that open files in nvim servers on any workspace for example E1 sends the file to a buffer on workspace one. I can also do the same thing for any other file using O1 etc which uses xdg-mime.
     
     I have a python extension I wrote that ssh's into my file server, greps files, returns the results in fzf, and then changes directory to the file associated with the grep result selected in fzf. So if I need to find a contract provision or an old client file, it takes seconds.
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:38:45 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     how do people access their files? is that a really retarded question?
     What I mean specifically is the very typical workflow of going to a directory and just opening a movie. I guess I struggle with understanding how "cd /path/to/dir" is faster than just using the gui. I get it for vim etc. but this just seems slow. Maybe ranger is the solution, but if your default is the terminal, it seems like it would always be slower to just open a damn file...
     
     idk. I'm a noob at twms
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:39:00 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I have a nvim script to pull in statutes / case law from my server. It all takes a minute to setup, but once it is, it's way faster than any gui.
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     karna :flipflop: :buffsuki: (karna@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:39:01 JST karna :flipflop: :buffsuki:

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     @WandererUber @Humpleupagus cd is pretty fast once you get used to it. and if you use a shell like zsh or fish, the autocompletiom is more ergonomic. that said soemthing ranger or yazi helps you show speed :hehcat:

     also in vim, you can just netrw or nerdtree or telescope and/or fzf to find files. which reminds me, you can also integrate fzf knto your shell which helps with fuzzy finding stuff fast.

     all that being said, i still use gnome with an extension to toggle tiling so take all that with a grain of salt

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:45:22 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     On windows, you can use lf which is similar to ranger.
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 11:45:23 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     >E1 sends the file to a buffer on workspace one. I can also do the same thing for any other file using O1 etc which uses xdg-mime.
     
     hooooly gemmy kino
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     WWIII_ENJOYER (wwiii_enjoyer@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 27-Mar-2026 14:01:05 JST WWIII_ENJOYER

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     Typical FS navigation is one of two things: the 'z' script (https://github.com/rupa/z) to jump directly to any commonly-used directory, or FZF to get the directory tree under the PWD. Both of these are functions in my bashrc, with keybindings, and they insert the selection into the input. So alt+o selects from the 'z' database and I can write things like `mv *.jpg <alt+o> memes<ret><ret>` I do a lot of things like `vi <ctrl+t>benis.c$` in source directories. Also, a flygrep command that works basically the same way.
     
     I also have some commands that list files into dmenu, for opening media, games, etc. Those are bound through sxhkd.
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