Reminiscent of one of The Reg FOSS desk's favourite OSes, the late and great Be OS, tabbed windows turn the title bar into a tab that is less than the full width of the window. Now version 3.0 is out with a whole new feature: tabbed windows.
Version 2.0 appeared late in 2020, removing a legacy protocol and adding a new image rendering engine. With such a relatively simple remit, it's good to see that development is still going on. HDD Clicker gizmo makes flash sound like spinning rust.Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS.You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie.It's also one of the defaults in the lightweight antiX and Absolute Linux distros. If you do a minimal install of openSUSE, you get IceWM. By default, it also provides an app launcher and an app switcher, using the familiar Windows 95 model: a hierarchical start menu and a taskbar. It's relatively simple, easy, and quick to learn. IceWM is an prime example of that simpler middle ground, a traditional stacking window manager allowing you to open, move, and resize windows. IceWM 3 balances being lightweight with useful core functionality Lots of new tiling window managers are arriving on Wayland like cagebreak, dwl, newm, and river. A trendy way to do this is with a tiling window manager, and alongside established favorites – for example awesomewm, i3, and ratpoison – there are lesser-known ones that are exploring new functionality such as bspwm, herbsluftwm, and Qtile. It's easy to be distracted by this constant background noise and forget that there are simpler alternatives to a complete desktop, without going full Luddite and living at a console prompt. Either they get abandoned or simply become moribund, and new updates stop appearing. All too often, ambitious or promising projects never reach version 1.0. Lots of them duplicate each others' work and functionality, sometimes just using slightly different tooling. The world of Linux desktop environments is full of sound and fury, with a constant stream of new developments and new versions. A new version of a quarter-century-old window manager shows that there's still room for improvement and innovation, even in established, mature tools.
0 kommentar(er)
