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A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by throwaway8879 »

My primary dev machine has been running KDE and i3wm for a while. I feel like I get a complete GUI experience while having all the benefits of a tiling window manager.

The author likes Gnome because of it's UI looking like Mac OS, and that's understandable. KDE did look different when I first switched from Macs. But at this point, the only things running in my dev machine is a whole lot of terminals and maybe 1-3 browser instances. So KDE is almost hidden at all tkmes.

Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by gh02t »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #2

My primary dev machine has been running KDE and i3wm for a while. I feel like I get a complete GUI experience while having all the benefits of a tiling window manager. The author likes Gnome because of it's UI looking like Mac OS, and that's understandable. KDE did look different when I first switched from Macs. But at this point, the only things running in my dev machine is a whole lot of terminals and maybe 1-3 bro…

I primarily just use i3, but I used to be a KDE guy. I used it for a while again just recently and I have to say, it's gotten really good. They've made it clean and tidy, while still being powerful and customizable.

Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by newman8r »

gh02t wrote: post #3
throwaway8879 wrote: post #2

My primary dev machine has been running KDE and i3wm for a while. I feel like I get a complete GUI experience while having all the benefits of a tiling window manager. The author likes Gnome because of it's UI looking like Mac OS, and that's understandable. KDE did look different when I first switched from Macs. But at this point, the only things running in my dev machine is a whole lot of terminals and maybe 1-3 bro…

I primarily just use i3, but I used to be a KDE guy. I used it for a while again just recently and I have to say, it's gotten really good. They've made it clean and tidy, while still being powerful and customizable.

I'm a recent i3 convert (been using it full time for the better part of a year now). It's one of those little changes that really brought me a lot of satisfaction.

This is on my primary desktop (with a 4k display). I recommend it to anyone who's in a rut with their workflow (learn about all the mods, i3-gaps, etc.) - it takes about a day to properly customize and get used to, time well spent.

Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by wyclif »

I've never understood why macOS has never included the functionality of, say, Divvy or chunkwm. I'd like to easily be able to tile my desktop via a keyboard command. Also, I've never quite understood what macOS people have against snapping the edges of windows to each other or the edge of the screen. Sometimes I want to divide the workspace into 3 or 4 windows and maximise my use of screen real estate. It's trivial to do this on a Linux distro (i3, awesome, dwm, ratpoison, etc.) but you have to do some tweaking on macOS, why?

[EDIT: best explanation of why I've heard: it's because the macOS design philosophy is that Apple knows best what size a window is supposed to be, while Linux and BSD are aligned with user-centric custom settings]

Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by abathologist »

I installed the [i3 edition of Manjaro](https://manjaro.org/download/i3/) last weekend. I was up and running with a beautiful environment providing most of the listed utilities in an hour or so. I have been incredibly happy with the setup.

The edition could still use some more love (e.g., I had to set up auto-mounting and HiDPI compatible configs myself), but it is remarkably cohesive and (relatively) easy to get going.

There is definitely room for improvement, but this is probably a good place to look or inspiration, and contributing to advance this work might be a good use of energy for those interested.

Re: A Tiling Desktop Environment

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Post by wyclif »

wezm wrote: post #6
astazangasta wrote: post #5

>I want a desktop environment like GNOME but with more control over window management and more keyboard control. So... KDE?

You read the whole section on KDE right?

I don't know for sure, but he may have scrolled down only far enough to see the Comments section and thought that was the end of the post.
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