Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-06-06, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
 

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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On 05/06/2025 18:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
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But I suppose widescreen displays make up most
of what can be usually purchased these days?

 
The market for LCD panels is overwhelmingly TVs at the top end and smart
phones or fondleslabs at the bottom
 
Tooling up for something suitable for workstations would be extremely
expensive.
WE live off the droppings from the TV markets table...
 
And that tends to be the HD aspect ratio screen

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Indeed, and this fact is *also* why the computer LCD world very quickly
went from 4:3 aspect screens to 16:9 (or if lucky, 16:10) aspect
screens.
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The economies of scale from using LCD panels that are "TV aspect ratio"
is just too cheap to ignore.

 
No problem.  I have two monitors on my machine; the older one is 4:3 and
the newer one is 16:9.  Both are filled up with xterm windows plus an
instance of VirtualBox running Windows XP.  Move and resize until everything
tiles nicely...

I've got almost the same pairing.  An older 4:3 LCD sitting next to a
newer 16:10 LCD.  The 4:3 also started acting up a few years back. 
Turned out the bargain basement filter capacitors in its PSU had begun
to dry out.  A new set of Nichicon's from Digikey and it's been working
great since.

But having two screens (if one has desk space to do so) is a nice
extra.  And Fvwm2 works just fine with multiple monitors.

I run a 2x3 virtual desk in Fvwm2, and I've got xterms and Firefox
windows spread out all over the six separate "full screen desk sets".