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Something I miss from #Tiling wms/compositors like #i3wm and #sway when I'm on #KDE:

I use #Yakuake on KDE #Plasma to have a terminal that's easily accessible, but stays out of my way when I don't want to see it.

On tiling setups, I use disappearing windows (I forget the actual name of the feature) that will pop up when I hit super+-, appear one at a time, and then disappear.

Yakuake lets you do tiling as well within its window, but I kinda miss the ability to cycle through a bunch of windows very easily. I mean, I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up very nicely, so it's just F12 to make the window appear and disappear, and then control+tab to cycle through tabs or control+pgup/pgdown to jump between panes, but somehow the tiling setup is just a bit easier to do. Less thinking, just super+-. ;)

I don't know if I'll continue to use tiling setup too much longer, though. It's too aggravating to figure out how to get the occasional gnome program to work properly. There's always some kind of fancy library initialization that I fail to get right. It's easier to just use a DE and whittle it down to nearly tiling levels of productivity.

:BlobCatDerpy:

These two art pieces are based on the deformation of a hexagonal tiling into a topologically equivalent "tiling" composed of parts of concentric circles, all parts having the same area (third image). Selecting one hexagon as the center, we transform it into a circle of radius 1. Next concentric circle will hold the 6 adjacent tiles as sectors of rings. And so on, the circle of level n will have radius sqrt(1+3·n·(n+1)) (difference of radius when n tends to infinity approaches sqrt(3)). This map can be coloured with three colours, like the hexagonal tiling. For the artwork, suppose each sector of ring is in fact a sector of a circle hidden by inner pieces. Then choose a colour and delete all pieces not of this colour. Two distinct set of sectors can be produced, one choosing the central colour, one choosing another colour. Finally recolour the pieces according to its size.
#MathArt #Art #Mathematics #geometry #tiling

I have found a novel family of rep-tiles which produce aperiodic tilings. The prototile is a triangle with smallest side 1 and biggest side 2, the other side is 1 < x <= 2. The family includes one pointed isosceles triangle, the right triangle of angles 30-60-90 (half an equilateral triangle), and other scalene, obtuse or acute, triangles. The first image shows relevant members of the family, the second the substitution rule. The isosceles triangle of the family has another already known aperiodic tiling ( tilings.math.uni-bielefeld.de/ ) which looks the same but is different because there the tile has no reflections, whereas here some tiles are reflected (in the case of the isosceles triangle the reflection makes a difference when applying the substitution). Figure 3 shows the difference between that tessellation and the one proposed here, mine has just four slopes. Last figure shows a zoom into one big instance of the tiling for the right triangle.
#TilingTuesday #tiling #Mathart #geometry #Mathematics

If you always wanted to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone, give Sxmo a try.

They just added a nice getting started guide to nicely illustrate how gestures are used to open the menu, bring up and close the keyboard, switch between workspaces and more:

sxmo.org/docs/gettingstarted/

Great work @pocketvj and Sxmo team!

Sxmo: Simple X mobileSxmo: Simple X mobileA minimalist mobile linux environment that is truly yours to control! Sxmo is a collection of simple programs and shell scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for Linux phones and other devices