> PowerToys What a project name :P
Surely one that weeds out the millennials from the old guard ;-)
Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
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Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#22I got REALLY excited when I read this title until I read the documentation and now I probably won't even bother testing it. If anyone is looking for an i3-like tiling window manager (a Linux tiling wm) Fanzy Zones isn't it. This one requires pre-setting a bunch of layouts up front, unlike i3 where you can just seamlessly open and move windows that auto-split as you go with zero window configuration up front. IMO the…
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Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#23This sounds like a feature for sysadmins and programmers. It's something you need to "configure". There are three thing I'd like regarding window layout: 1) the WM remembers the last placement of each app (and child window, and second or 3rd instance), and put them there when relaunched. 2) since I use a huge 4k monitor, I almost never want a window to drag beyond any edge of the screen. I dont need snapping, just a…
For 1, Fancy Zones has "Move newly created windows to their last known zone"
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#24Recently been forced to work on Windows, been looking for a tiling windows manager for Windows. I'm used to i3/Sway.
Played with it a bit. It has some good ideas, but hopefully they keep adding features. Some things it's missing (that most or all tiling WMs have):
- Custom keyboard shortcuts
- ability to switch focus quickly with keyboard shortcuts (move to window to right/left, instead of alt-tabbing through all open windows for example)
- virtual desktop keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch to a numbered Virtual Desktop and move windows to them (I have a autohotkey script for this), but would be nice for it to be built-in to this.
- an option to auto-tile when new windows are opened. As it is, it floats new windows, and you have to manually move them into position. This is fairly cumbersome.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#25This looks neat. This is a kind of window manager I have wanted for quite a while on OSX
Check out better snap tools. It’s not free, but it’s kept updated and works remarkably similarly to the tool listed here.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#26I got REALLY excited when I read this title until I read the documentation and now I probably won't even bother testing it. If anyone is looking for an i3-like tiling window manager (a Linux tiling wm) Fanzy Zones isn't it. This one requires pre-setting a bunch of layouts up front, unlike i3 where you can just seamlessly open and move windows that auto-split as you go with zero window configuration up front. IMO the…
It's an Open Source project. Send a PR or a feature request: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/new?assignees=...
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This isn't something that's really a feature request. It would require changing how the whole entire application works at a fundamental level, or really building 2 applications in 1.
That's why you have 2 different sets of tiling window managers on Linux. You either have fixed layout ones where it's automatic after configuration or manual tiling window managers instead of 1 tool trying to do both.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#27This looks neat. This is a kind of window manager I have wanted for quite a while on OSX
If you're willing to put some time into configuration, check out chunkwm (which is apparently being replaced by yabai, which I haven't tried). Its the closest I've gotten to a true tiling window manager on OSX, not without its quirks, and requires some work to get the way you want it, but it's at least something.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#28I know that several of my Windows-based co-workers will like this. Looking at the screenshots it does look cumbersome though. The real power of i3 is it's simplicity. You are not overwhelmed by complicated constructs. This appears to be a more static approach to tiling 'I want Layout #3' vs 'Open a new window here'. I really hope this catches on. It's a fantastic productivity booster that I feel is on-par with having…
In my opinion, the major disadvantage of current tiling WMs like i3 is that they don't make effective use of the mouse, which can be a very efficient input device for some usages.
If this product is able to change that, then that could outweigh the pain of the awkward configuration for me.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#29This looks neat. This is a kind of window manager I have wanted for quite a while on OSX
I've been using Yabai[0] for a few months and am generally pretty happy with the i3-like experience on macOS.
Re: Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
#30Will definitely check this out. I use a 43" 4K and the default corner/side snapping behavior is just not sufficient for managing windows. Having visual studio snapped to the right/left 50% of your screen all day is terrible for your neck, especially considering the default location of solution explorer in VS. I really just need a 'priority' zone or column right in the middle of the display that I can quickly snap other things around. A 3x3 grid or simply 3 columns might work out well for me.