Lightning Talk: Tile Up Your Life Using i3wm and tmux
summary
Claim: switching fully to a tiling workflow cuts desktop clutter, gives more usable screen space, and speeds window management with keyboard shortcuts. Uses i3wm for tiling and tmux for terminal multiplexing, demonstrates Chrome alongside multiple terminals, k9s for Kubernetes, and per-task port-forward panes. Shows simple status bar scripts to surface custom data, uses a scratchpad/hide shortcut, points to published dotfiles, and demonstrates the setup working in live demos.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38How did you get into tiling window managers
- 1:51What is a tiling window manager
- 2:46Benefits of tiling window managers
- 3:39Demo
- 5:00Teamworks
- 5:45Window Decorations
- 6:20Outro
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