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1 Dynamic window management |
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3 We think that static window management as seen in Ion or wmi-10 is a far… |
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4 rigid and inflexible working environment. In [acme](http://acme.cat-v.or… |
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5 larswm, and oberon, dynamic window management frees the user from these |
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6 limitations. The user can start as many applications and windows as he l… |
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7 and easily arrange them in a useful way, helped by the window manager - … |
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8 working environment changes with the tasks the user is performing. The |
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9 experience is very fluid and natural. Similar concepts have been introdu… |
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10 wmii and dwm. |
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12 Dynamic window management states that it is the window manager's job to … |
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13 windows - and not the user's job to have to set up some specialized layo… |
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14 will only work for one specific work scenario. This has been the larswm … |
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15 for a long time. In contrast to static window management, the user rarel… |
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16 to think about how to organize windows, no matter what he is doing or ho… |
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17 applications are running at the same time. The window manager adapts to … |
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18 current environment and helps the user manage and mold it to his needs, … |
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19 than forcing it to use a preset, fixed layout and trying to shoehorn all |
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20 windows and applications into it. |
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22 Dynamic window management has many advantages - you can create and tear … |
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23 whole working environments in a matter of seconds rather than spending t… |
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24 fine-tuning a fixed layout that cannot work well in all cases. The numbe… |
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25 nature of windows you work with changes all the time, and a dynamic wind… |
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26 manager lets you adapt to that and always efficiently use your precious … |
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27 real estate. |
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29 Some will argue that you should setup a different static workspace for e… |
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30 the tasks you perform (one for web browsing, one for email reading, one … |
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31 coding, etc.), but that is just a workaround for the limitations of stat… |
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32 window management, and it doesn't account for the many sub-usage pattern… |
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33 main task has. |
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35 For example: the layout you use during debugging would probably be quite |
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36 different to the one used during refactoring, you might want to have a p… |
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37 someone emailed you in view while you look at some code, or edit a |
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38 configuration file while you look at a man page or website. Dynamic wind… |
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39 management lets you mix and match on the fly to always have the windows … |
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40 need in view, and only the windows you need, without the need to reserve… |
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41 space which you may or may not end up using. |
