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sway has had gaps built in for a long time :) I don't use them though, why waste screen space?

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If I have a 27 or 34-inch monitor, I can spare 4-5 pixels for elegance.

i3 user here with 42" monitor: I still wouldn't waste the space for gaps/elegance/eyecandy.

But, as with anything, this is a matter of personal taste.

I have a 27" monitor, and I use a 3px border for the active window border, so I suppose I'm wasting some space.

I have two 27" 4k monitors and don't want to waste a single pixel. I did not looked how the gap feature can be enabled/disabled and I really hope the default is disable contrary to the new "drag window" feature that can not be disabled and that regularly disrupt my workflow.

(I know that an upgrade add the ability to disable the drag window feature, it's just not available in FreeBSD yet).

As someone focused on productivity, gaps help me make sense the current state of the desktop, by separating better the contents of multiple windows in the same workspace.

For single window workspaces you just don't apply the gap (smart gaps).

I use gaps in XMonad and I find they help to make screen borders (or shading in case I use a compositor) more visible to quickly move my eye to the active window.

Very useful for techy video calls - folks you're presenting your screen to, should be able to determine which borderless terminal window ends where.

Depends on the screen size and resolution but for the 1080p 14" laptop I'm finding these settings sufficient to do the job and not take much space:

    gaps inner 8
    gaps outer 3

I find that using gaps (not big ones, 5-10 pixels at most) helps me differentiate between similar windows (like terminals) much easier. And, also, I just looks more elegant imho.

You could also use a 3x5 pixel font. Why waste screen space?

way ahead of you dawg: https://dotsies.org/

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