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are tiling WM good only for terminal? (feddit.it)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

what's so special about workspaces in tiling wms compared to other options?