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The bottom is also on a transparent screen
Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.
But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.
Speaking of eye strain, there's the hilarious related trope that every helmet in a movie shines bright light into the face of the helmet's wearer.
It's pretty obvious why they do it: they want the faces of the actors to be visible. But, I can't help but imagine how stupid it would be to have a light shining in the eyes of an astronaut when they work on something in the darkness of space.
I hate even just having a background that isn't a solid color if any software is running. I could never use a transparent screen.
What about a semi transparent terminal window? When I started out learning linux command line interfaces, it helped having the docs just behind my shell session for reference when all I had was a tiny old laptop. But now I don't bother ricing up my DE anymore. I just want some default window tilling keybindings that work out of the box, and I'm good to go.
I like visual simplicity. Other than the terminal, I usually maximize all of my windows. I've just gotten good at using alt-tab and win-# to quickly flip between windows as needed.
Have you tried multiple virtual desktops, or do you prefer to have a single alt-tab stack of windows? I love using a 3x3 grid of desktops, as the special zoning helps me to organize, separate, and spread out my multiple work tasks.
That sounds really complicated! My daily driver is Windows (I know, I know... I can't give up my games), so I'm not sure that would even be possible for me.
Windows 11 (and 10?) supports multiple desktops. Only in the shape of a 1xN grid through, like a 1D array. Still handy for multitasking:
Yeah, I'm familiar with the multi desktop feature on Windows. I don't really use it because I can't see any advantage over alt-tab for my use case. I meant the 2D grid.
I just use the i3wm scratchpad for docs