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r1w1s1 on Nostr: Starting to use the Linux-ported version of OpenBSD cwm on Slackware as an ...

Starting to use the Linux-ported version of OpenBSD cwm on Slackware as an alternative to my trusty dwm.

The interesting part is that almost nothing in my workflow changed.

I still use dmenu, tabbed + st + tmux, the same helper scripts, and the same keyboard habits. The only thing I currently miss is slstatus, which is tied to my dwm setup.

That was exactly the point of my Window Manager Agnostic Workflows article: when your launcher, scripts, and keyboard layer are independent from the window manager, switching between WMs becomes easy. The window manager changes, but the workflow remains.

https://repo.or.cz/code-notes.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/notes/Window_Manager_Agnostic_Workflows.txt

Small, simple tools age well.

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