Xest - Haskell

Trying out https://jhgarner.github.io/Xest-Window-Manager/, and this thing honestly looks really cool - I had troubles navigating through XMonad, but this one just works out of the box

I don't quite understand the selling point they're making

are they saying you have "tiers" of workspaces

e.g. on tier 0 you have two "global" workspaces, and then you work within "tier 1" most of the time

and when you want to totally "context switch" you go to the different tier 0 one

and they suggest that you have completely different keybinds for switch tier 0s vs switching tier 1s?

Playing with it a little bit, it seems like you have these "many" tilers that can contain multiple tilers with single or multiple windows
These tilers can be set to fullscreen mode, in which case you basically have multiple independent "workspaces" to manipulate
So if I setup some non-trivial layouts in tilers nested under this fullscreen one, I can switch between them as if I was switching between separate workspaces

so instead of having keybinds for different tiers, you have binds that "go down/up" in the tree

and then the binds manipulate the current layer/level of the tree?

Yeah - basically, all you have is tiler for single window and tiler for multiple tilers, and you can nest them to create any layout you want, navigating through them as through some tree

sounds fun, might actually try it out too, I've been using using i3 for 3-4 years now, in a mostly disorganised fashion (apart from the "always there" stuff)

Though I am yet to find out how to use multiple displays (did not find way to edit the second one :big_smile: )
And I am currently purposefully avoiding quotes because I am stuck at Slovak keyboard without shortcut to change it :joy:

oh, haskell too, I wonder if they have a zipper in there :P

TheMatten said:

Though I am yet to find out how to use multiple displays (did not find way to edit the second one :big_smile: )

this works with X, right? try arandr

or do you mean, how to switch between displays in the wm?

I mean, I see the second screen, but it is stuck in "normal" mode and all I can do is to hover mouse inside of it

no focus on the other workspace when you do that?

OwO, recursion schemes and freer-simple

I've yet to find recursion schemes other than foldr useful, but maybe I'm just thinking on too low a level/not working on something that requires them often

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78 said:

no focus on the other workspace when you do that?

Seems like not

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78 said:

I've yet to find recursion schemes other than foldr useful, but maybe I'm just thinking on too low a level/not working on something that requires them often

I mean, I guess most of transformations we usually do are just folds - even for that purpose, I would consider them to be pretty nice simply because they compose

Hmm, seems like second display works after all - after some clicking and switching between modes I've opened new windows there