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Desktop Environments: tiling window manager and XFCE tip
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ZDNet ☛ Love window snapping on Linux? You should try a tiling window manager - here's why
For those who've never experienced a tiling window manager, you're in for a treat.
Tiling window managers depend on keyboard shortcuts to interact with the interface. Instead of using the mouse, you use the keyboard to open apps, move windows around, cycle through windows, and just about everything you do on the desktop.
This reliance on the keyboard can prevent new Linux users from adopting a tiling window manager. That's a shame, because although these window managers have a steeper learning curve, they are amazingly efficient.
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[Old] Mitesh Singh Jat ☛ Stopping Tumblerd in XFCE
Tumbler is a D-Bus service for applications to request thumbnails for various URI schemes and MIME types. It is an implementation of the thumbnail management D-Bus specification described here.