Tiling Compositors Can't Tell Browser Windows Apart
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Chromium and Firefox give all their windows one `app_id`, so tiling compositors can't tell an OAuth popup from a real browser window. wl-relabel is a Wayland proxy that renames it before the window appears.
How I finally built an Arch + i3 rice that sticks: a one-keypress light/dark theming engine, reproducible Stow dotfiles, and a couple of side quests, all with Claude Code riding shotgun.
