1/15/2024 0 Comments Buy mouseless![]() ![]() $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/releaseĪnd once installed, restart and Regolith will appear as a desktop session on the login screen. Use the following commands to install Regolith via PPA. I chose to install it over my current setup as a PPA. Regolith is available as both a pre-bundled ISO and a standalone installable PPA. In the following sections, I will talk in more detail about how to get more comfortable with this fundamental shift in the way we use our desktop environment all the while using just the keyboard. And what do you do when you have too many things open at the same time or you want one of the windows to be full screen, you simply move it to a different 'workspace'. Everything is laid out like Tetris tiles alongside each other. No more floating windows, no hidden windows behind one another, no need for a mouse to move windows around. They only open beside each other, oriented either vertically or horizontally. A Tiling WM is a very unconventional kind of a WM where multiple applications or windows when opened together do not float or overlap each other. to create an easy to adopt package, which otherwise takes a lot of time to setup when starting with i3wm.Īll this combined makes up for a fairly easy to use Tiling Window Manager. It very thoughtfully combines various independent components like i3-gaps WM, Rofi application launcher and notification system, i3bar etc. ![]() ![]() Looking at there Github Page, its just a meta package which just holds the issue tracker and release files. While giving i3wm a more dedicated research time I found Regolith Linux, which instead of creating a new DE (Desktop Environment) chose to create a collection of open source components bundled in a way to make transition and usage of i3wm easier. But this time around I gave it a more serious look as I was pretty pissed at Gnome and couldn't wait for the Ubuntu 20.04 update to land. There are a lot of excellent options like XFCE and some others, but all of them seemed very outdated in terms of their underlying technology for 2020 (though being more stable at the same time, from what people shared on forums).Ī good friend of mine (and a huge Linux advocate) had suggested me to try out i3wm (a Tiling WM - more on that later) some time back and I quickly dismissed that option at that time because I wasn't convinced about having a keyboard-driven WM. I then started to look for a lightweight Window Managers (WM's) to replace Gnome with something more stable and easy on the memory. At one point I was considering buying more RAM for my laptop just because this was becoming a daily nuisance for me. And also there is this nagging feeling as a developer that there has to be some sort of a memory leak somewhere, because of which this process keeps increasing in size every few hours. On a 16 GB that's a huge amount especially when my Android IDE, Emulator, Browser and 5 other things are all fighting each other for the already vanishing sweet piece of RAM pie. It's always fine after a fresh start or reboot at the beginning of the day with around 500-600 MB of usage but by sunset, my usage generally climbs upwards of 1.1 GB. ![]() I stuck to the non-LTS release starting from 19.04 and then upgraded to 19.10, but all this while one thing that bothered me a lot was the amount of RAM being consumed by the Gnome Window Manager. I like to keep things simple and stick to the defaults as much as possible (as much as I would love to customize the hell out of things, sadly I don't have that kind of time nowadays) and after distro-hopping for a while, I was happy to use stock Ubuntu. ![]()
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