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> But for certain usage patterns, that doesn't get you a lot. Even if you're popping up disposable shell windows left and right, you might also do that within screen/tmux, where the window manager doesn't come into play at all (or have some drop-down quake-like console).

I've started to notice I often have i3 open with an xterm running screen in which I'm running vim with multiple buffers. I should start using ctrl-alt-F* so I have 4 layers of context switching...



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