Re: [xmonad] Re: Project to make tiling window managers more accessible to newcomers

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:58 AM, wrote:

Gwern Branwen writes:

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One idea I've always wondered about is a menubar based tiling WM. The user, say, middle-clicks (hardly anyone uses middle-click), and then a geometrical menu pops up along the lines of XMonad.Actions.GridSelect. In it are all the default operations - 'kill', 'refresh',  'sendMessage NextLayout', etc. The user left-clicks on one and voila.

If people don't use middle click, then how do they paste text in X11? Other than that minor nitpick, this idea seems fairly interesting, I sometimes want to be able to use my computer with only the mouse, rather than only the keyboard.

I say hardly, because based on the number of times I've heard people discuss it, and the number of apps that ignore it or otherwise mistreat middle-clicking, I don't think it's nearly as used as something like rightclick or C-v -- gwern