@natecull @dredmorbius @pnathan i mean, X is a windowing environment, so i dunno how using it to contain a bunch of windows isn't using it as that.

and yeah, X is a giant weird beast and i've never actually written code against it in any meaningful way, but i use stuff like xclip, wmctrl, dmenu, rofi, etc., to control facets of it pretty routinely, so it's at least situated in a cli & scripting-driven environment that i use to control my own space.