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Christian
Christian

Reputation: 1272

Kid-friendly tiling window manager

I am looking for a tiling window manager that will allow my daughter (4 yrs) to run ucblogo and display the turtle graphics at the same time.

A little background:

Ubuntu/Debian has a package ucblogo, which runs from the console or, graphically, from within X. Running it from within X allows, besides others, for the showturtle command which will show the logo-turtle. The turtle is shown in it's own window and the input has it's own window (usually the xterm ucblogo is started from). The graphics window is only "started" once the logo command showturtlehas been issued, ie. it's not there from the beginning on. See this partial screenshot from the raspberry (in which the turtle is not shown, it's in the BXLogo window on the right):

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The whole setup is running under a raspberry pi for now, but I'd like to give her her own netbook I have lying around (and yes, it will only be used under "supervision" ;).

The concept of tiling winow managers is a bit strange to me, yet am I looking for a tiling window manager that allows me to display both windows. Starting with the text.input window, then the second window with graphics should be above.

Could anyone please point me to a beginner's resource on how to set up a tiling window manager to do the above (start with one, fullscreen xterm, then, upon the second window coming into existence, tiling this window above or besides the first).

I have tried ratposion before but that seems to tile only manually and I have looked into xmonad but that has 400 megs of dependencies and the netbook only has about that much free.

A little more educational background:

The reason I want a tiling window manager is that I want to keep all the mouse/touchpad crud away from her for the time being. She can already log in with her username and password, so the concept of using the keyboard is a bit closer then that of a mouse. Also the netbook only has a resolution of 800x480 pixels so I do not want to loose any space on fancy decorations.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 974

Answers (1)

user530873
user530873

Reputation: 1085

You may want to look into i3. It features tiling window management and easy to setup keybindings. However, for a young child, a tiling window manager may be too much for their understanding, you may consider your sanity.

Upvotes: 1

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