Although removing these dotfiles gave the repository a clean feeling, it
made it significantly harder to resume using a certain window manager or
other tool at any time.
Instead of removing dotfiles entirely, it's enough to simply not install
the programs you don't want to use, or even install them but not open
them.
The recent blur additions in picom were absolutely stunning, and I'm a
bit saddened to have to leave it, however I also no longer need to worry
about the compositor only working under X11.
I personally found this to be a stunning blur that I would love to use
in GNOME, however I am okay with using GNOME without it due to the many
benefits GNOME provides.
These are old changes I made while I was still using bspwm. Although
bspwm is an amazing window manager, I feel like the simplicity of GNOME,
as well as how customizable it can be, negates any potential benefits
one can achieve with bspwm and its vast configuration possibilities.
As one example, alttab is a cool piece of software that brings the
concept of alt-tabbing to window managers like bspwm, however, GNOME is
already capable of doing this and does so in a more elegant way, showing
views of the windows you're alt-tabbing between.
This appears to fix an issue where the screen would occasionally flicker
after resuming from dpms' screen blanking feature. So far I have not
observed any significant performance degradations.
Reference: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/578
This likely fixes an issue I had earlier, although I don't remember what
it was. In any case, this change is a positive one since toggling the
bar is now instantaneous as well.
Since the device we're using is normal DPI, we have to manually adjust
these two values. Note that the rest of the setup is mostly automated
when it comes to determining the size of things.
