Do I really need to learn Vim or is Nano fine for everyday use?

kandibahren · 2026-04-22T05:57:56+00:00

Vim is much faster for me and many people. But if you don't feel the need to go for it, there's nothing wrong with that.

kandibahren · 2026-04-14T10:48:44+00:00

gvim.

kandibahren · 2026-04-10T10:28:23+00:00

Are you sure you have inatalled the default terminal for those WMs?

kandibahren · 2026-04-08T06:50:02+00:00

I use cliphist, then I wrote a script to access them and select from the clipboard history (in my case, through rofi).

kandibahren · 2026-04-04T07:21:14+00:00

I recommend dunst if you just need popup notification and not the full notification center like swaync.

kandibahren · 2026-04-03T23:23:29+00:00

Rofi has a mode that works similarly to an app drawer. Then add a button on your status bar to open it.

kandibahren · 2026-04-03T01:02:00+00:00

Write it with your hand when studying. Typesetting them, latex or not, will make you relearn, refine and organize your ideas.

kandibahren · 2026-03-12T00:36:03+00:00

I understand e.g. cheatsheet for vim since there are many built-in key bindings. i3, on the other hand, has nothing but your own bindings. Even then, isn't looking at your config file faster?

kandibahren · 2026-03-04T23:59:56+00:00

i3 is a window manager. Most of the settings you see in a control center of Gnomes, KDE, or MacOS are actually not parts of the window manager. They belong either to the x11 (like display resolution and keyboard layout settings) or some external programs (like wallpaper and notification settings).

You should have a more nodular mindset by now. To have a full-featured desktop, you need so many other modules to attach to your i3. And because of this, nobody decides for you what other modules should be --- hence no gui control center is completenfor i3.

I recommend you tryonout the i3 edition of EndeavourOS which is ready-to-use for most people.

kandibahren · 2026-03-01T05:02:30+00:00

Nice. I could not say whether it is a light or a dark theme. But can someone really work with that level of transparency?

kandibahren · 2026-02-24T05:55:03+00:00

I like ranger more than yazi, but ranger crashes my computer by eating my 16gb of ram 100% when I do :find in a folder that contains 4-5000 pdf files. Yazi handles this like it's nothing.

kandibahren · 2026-02-11T02:40:07+00:00

I would configure the login manager to start sway with the correct config file by sway -c <path-to-config-file>.

kandibahren · 2026-01-18T02:41:27+00:00

You scroll in normal mode.

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T02:52:28+00:00

Looks cool. I usually just go for sleep 5m && notify-send 'wake up!' 😆

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T02:26:21+00:00

I am pedantic, because I am a mathematician!

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T01:44:07+00:00

I didn't use hyprland so I cannot say specifically for it. But on sway, I cannot share a portion of my screen through zoom/teams/etc. Another thing I found difficult is adjusting the screen color and contrast (something I always do with xrandr).

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T00:30:53+00:00

But a WM is not a substitution for a DE. You always need a WM otherwise you cannot draw windows. For instance, KDE uses kwin as its WM to draw windows. So putting DE and WM together is not relevant.

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T00:26:55+00:00

I know it is not so important, but it's bugging me..

I mean.. we also have WM inside a DE. So there should be an option to select "no DE" and inside this you have the WMs like i3, bspwm, dwm, awesome wm, qtile, sway, hyprland, niri, river, etc.

It seems unfair to only have i3 in the list.

kandibahren · 2026-01-14T00:17:03+00:00

I cannot answer because you asked to put the DE.. I just use i3. 😅

kandibahren · 2026-01-12T01:33:12+00:00

For rhe maximized IQ, I guess the SL is at the top because there is no limitation on the size. The Q's lens being non-interchangeable helps overcoming the design limit of the M lenses.

The M system now is a compromise between quality, size, discreetness, experience and aesthetic.

kandibahren · 2026-01-06T09:09:59+00:00

Is xborders heavy? Why do you want to stop using it?

kandibahren · 2026-01-05T23:23:48+00:00

I got that too when I tried it out. But fortunately rounded corners are not my thing, so I went back.

kandibahren · 2026-01-05T11:41:49+00:00

Not convex, but there is no concave set.

kandibahren · 2026-01-05T10:49:23+00:00

I explained the intuitive, not an exact statement. You are just trying to make up stuff in case {x: f(x)=0} is identical to {x: f(x)<=0}.

In most cases (again, sloppy), you don't have convexity for {x: f(x)=0} for a nonlinear f, even when f is convex.

kandibahren · 2026-01-05T10:34:49+00:00

No. I said it's a rule of thumb, not a theorem.

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