I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago
    • a big feature of tiling window managers is the auto-placement / auto-adjustment / auto-sizing of windows to fit available space
      • their main focus is always having everything visible (nothing hidden behind overlaps)
      • and most of them take advantage of having a good set of keybinds so everything can be keyboard driven rather than half-and-half with a mouse
    • before jumping feet first into tiling window managers, get an easy introduction with
      • Pop Shell – an extension that adds tiling features to Gnome
      • PaperWM adds linear tiling to Gnome
      • Material Shell – focusing on a more grid based workspace model
    • DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling
    • check through the hotkeys of your current window manager – you won’t get the full dynamic features of a tiling window manager, but most of them have keys for snapping windows to top-half, bottom-half, left-half, right-half (as well as sometimes offering by quarter as well)
    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling

      non-tiling window managers can also have different workspaces, or even DEs such as KDE Plasma. IIRC even Windows has those (although with inconvenient keybindings imo)

      • wiikifox@pawb.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think they’re talking about the tandem of tiling and workspaces, as usually you can customize your tiling per-workspace. Some TWMs have tags instead of workspaces, making it even better.