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physicist164 I think this depends on the Window Manager or Desktop Environment you choose. Someone of them allows you to disable the border for running apps. Which WM or DE do you use?

      physicist164 you might be able to do that with Openbox or another minimalist/configurable stacking window manager

        I have customized a bit my original Budgie experience with the addition of some theming from the software store's repositories (the preferred easy way). This is where I leave it at, it is perfect for me, I am satisfied with its outcome.


        Really loving 4.2 Budgie. It's quite fast and very comfortable. The only thing I did differently from my typical setup is cmus rather than mpd+ncmpcpp because my usage requires a few utilities that aren't in the repos, whereas with cmus I just had to compile and configure cmusfm.

        GTK theme: Basik_Light_Blue
        Cursor Theme: Cz-Viator
        Icon theme: Papirus (default i believe)
        Terminal emulator: alacritty, zenburn theme, no titlebars, with tmux.
        Right screen contains weechat, cmus, and cava
        Middle terminal contains neofetch

          rdr is that thing on the right - the 2nd monitor?

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              Solarmass Right, the entire right side is a 1080p HP monitor in portrait. Alacritty is taking up the entire screen, but subdivided into three panes with tmux

              alveion 😆

                    rdr I am curious how is usability of the console music players, e.g. hotkeys support, playlists creation, shuffle/repeat, queue, etc... Sure it looks minimal and "geeky".

                        Solarmass The only thing you don't get is drag and drop, they even have rudimentary mouse support. With mpd+ncmpcpp, my typical usage is hitting ~ to add random (songs), 150 (enter), and then removing songs with the hotkey (I usually bind it with x) to make the random mix even better. With cmus, I usually listen to albums, but you can create playlists by adding a song with "y", shuffle is toggleable with a hotkey (s), playlists are a thing. It's not only minimal and geeky but also very functional. It even has Budgie/GNOME integration via mpris, so you can pause/etc with the gui. I encourage you to try it out if it interests you, but there's nothing wrong with a gui player. One limitation with cmus in particular is it tends to encourage you to listen to artists/albums rather than a queue, but you can use the playlist functionality to do that.