I’ve continued with openbox, but really any window manager would do, as long as its window switching functioned. It provides a more traditional alt+tab, plus custom keybindings via its rc.xml configuration file. Openbox is the window manager on my primary machine, so I installed that for familiarity. It’s a window manager I’d like to use more though, something I would consider for, say, a laptop where screen real estate is at a premium. I spent some time with ratpoison but had issues with the hotkeys not working possibly they were being send to the applications instead. The ratpoison window manager looked interesting to me as it aims to provide an X window analogue to GNU screen, the terminal/shell window manager. I had a quick look at the tiling window manager comparison page, and settled on a choice primarily based on one that was lightweight. We don’t need everything a full desktop environment provides, so we can save the Wyse 3040’s limit resources there. Window ManagersĪ window manager makes switching easier either via keycombo to switch window, or via custom commands. As such it fails the user friendliness test. That’s easy to do from a logged-in shell like an ssh session, but it’s terrible user experience for a regular TV. Systemctl stop chromium & systemctl start kodi # starts Kodi This makes switching simple: systemctl stop kodi & systemctl start chromium # starts Netflix In part 2 we created/used services for our media players - Kodi and Netflix - and made them available to our user via sudoers config.
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