
Web browsers for the console may be fast, but they're also quite restricted and don't work for all web sites.

On the other hand, the console only allows for a very limited multimedia experience: Midnight commander instead of nautilus/dolphin For most common tasks there are equivalent text oriented programs you can use, i.

One strategy would be to completely drop GUI applications and X11 altogether and only work on the console. After a short general introduction of tiling and after looking into some existing tiling window manager implementations, we will have a closer look into the dynamic window manager dwm that follows the suckless philosophy.When you're working primarily with the keyboard, using the mouse and especially frequently switching between the two input methods can be annoying. In this BrownBag we will see how tiling window managers work and what advantages they have over traditional window managers. In addition to the benefits that dynamic tiling window managers provide (maximizing screen real estate utilization, organizing windows, helping navigating through windows, tagging), they are usually less bloated as compared to desktop environments and provide a high level of control w.r.t. Dynamic tiling window manager use layout templates that are useful for automatically arranging windows for you.

Tiling window managers are different from traditional stacking window managers in the way they manage windows: tiles cannot overlap and make use the entire, available screen real estate.
