Agree 100%. And I wrote a book on tmux. I would love something like i3 on my Mac. I can't give up OSX because I need its accessibility features because I'm low vision.
But if you're on Linux and you're not using i3, gosh, you have to give it a try.
But if you're on Linux and you're not using i3, gosh, you have to give it a try.
I use the full screen zoom and run Windows apps in virtualization. That's how important it is to me.
Ubuntu tried to make this work with Compiz a few years ago, and it was terrible as well. Slow and jerky.
But this is an absolute necessity for a low vision user like me. Got a Mac for my dad and he also can't live without it now.
In fact, the default implementation in Weston is, better in my opinion, and also enabled by default. Instead of having to go to the edge of the screen to move the region, it moves the region with the cursor in the same position relative to the screen as the region. Of course, for those with dyslexia or some other psychovisual disability; it may be worthwhile to have an option to go the OS X route.
Thanks for the input, I'll maybe put it on the GNOME bugzilla if it isn't already there. :-)
I look forward to seeing this work, but I worry about the hardware requirements that will be imposed.
I have a 2007 white macbook that zooms flawlessly. If I need a high-end video card to zoom as smoothly it will be a problem.
One of the bigger things I think people miss is copying text into and out of tmux panes, including to the clipboard. This saves me a lot of time switching between windows often, especially using the vi keybindings. Although one thing I wish tmux did better was handling things like dividers.
And what do you mean about handling dividers?
FYI, there's a slight bug with the xclip copy binding, but it's pretty easily fixed (bind C-c run "/usr/bin/tmux save-buffer - | /usr/bin/xclip -i -sel clipboard >/dev/null").
Just using tmux to get more than one terminal was really only a fraction of the stuff I could use it for. My terminal launches in XMonad use tmux by default now.
As far as the copy stuff, I'm talking about pipe or line dividers in terminal apps (e.g. mutt, ncmpcpp, etc... If whatever I'm trying to copy covers more than one line, tmux will copy over the divider which is painful.