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peak thread · 71 comments
183 pts
latest 20+ return · 2020-01-24
153 pts

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I spent quite a bit of time writing my configuration for Phoenix, if you're thinking about writing your own I think you might find starting from mine useful. It's easy to customize, there are gifs in the readme, and it comes packed with features, I hope you'll like it: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix

The window api makes me think one could pretty easily create an i3 like window manager. But my past experience with OSX window managers like amethyst has been subpar. Often the sizing/positioning is taken more as a “suggestion” by the window than a command. I also found eventually windows would get into a bad state. Has window management on OSX improved in the past couple years? On Linux with X11, window managers truly have control and thus provide a more…

city41·153-point thread·

Nice work however it seems to be difficult to configure. I spent over an hour this afternoon trying to setup the application with no luck. tried using example configs from your wiki but none worked. I'd suggest providing a basic default file rather than linking to users' examples.

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