I used Codex to customize my Hyprland desktop - and learned a valuable AI lesson
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- Configuring the Hyprland window manager is challenging.
- I wanted to see how well AI would perform at creating a .conf file.
- There's an important lesson to be learned here.
This is the year I realized how much I enjoy tiling window managers, and Hyprland is my favorite so far.
If you've never experienced a tiling window manager, know that they aren't exactly for the faint of heart. They are driven by keyboard shortcuts, of which there are a lot to memorize. On top of that, most of them require configuration via text files.
Such is the case with Hyprland.
Hyprland is configured via the ~/.config/hyrp/hyrpland.conf file; for the uninitiated, it can be rather daunting. You really should know what you're getting into before you make that first edit to the file.
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