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lisivka on March 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ditching tmux

You can open/switch between terminals using keystroke in other managers too. It's called "toggle-or-exec"/"jump-or-exec" in Sawfish (Gnome 1 WM).

I implemented shell script for that functionality in other WM's: https://github.com/vlisivka/linux-tools/blob/master/scripts/...

andrewstuart2 on March 14, 2016 [–]

The benefit of i3, though, is that a terminal is just another window, and the direct navigation happens between windows. I can jump directly from a terminal to a browser or IDE because the construct is the same for all of them.

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