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Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

bitigchi wrote: post #27

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I do not understand why people prefer tiling window managers. I prefer to have lots of windows open, and being able to position them how I want with the size I want greatly increases my productivity. Tiling window managers makes you conform to their way of working.

honestly I don't understand free floating window managers. Faffing around layering is slow and leads to poor window experiences (rarely is a program designed to be partially obscured). Do you persist your layouts for a long time? Rarely opening windows?

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by SubGenius »

Foxboron wrote: post #13
SubGenius wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been meaning to try out barrier. How do you like it? Is it responsive/fast? I had synergy running across linux/mac machines a number of years ago and it wasn't super reliable back then..

I have been using synergy for 6 or 7 years. Barrier the past year. It works reliably, more so then synergy, and I'm typing this reply through barrier right now :) It also fixes a few quirks I had like xorg screen changes wasn't reflected in synergy and it would start having weird boundaries.

Ah good. Thanks, I'll give it a go today!

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by nix23 »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #41
dbrgn wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most if not all tiling window managers allow you to do that by switching to a floating mode.

That i3 has a floating mode is good, however it's not a good floating mode for a floating-based workflow.

>however it's not a good floating mode for a floating-based workflow.

It's made for "tilling incompatible" applications or stuff you want always on top, it's not made for a floating workflow.

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by julius »

mrweasel wrote: post #39
bitigchi wrote: post #27

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I do not understand why people prefer tiling window managers. I prefer to have lots of windows open, and being able to position them how I want with the size I want greatly increases my productivity. Tiling window managers makes you conform to their way of working.

I feel the same way. There are projects like EvilWM, which is still rather nice, that has the 1px border and looks alot like a tiling window manager. As I get old, I started to look more toward simple Windows managers, like OpenBox. I really do like having the buttons, and a window border I can actually hit with my pointer. Personally I think it would be fun if someone cloned Windows 3.11 and added a few ekstra keybo…

Hitting borders with a pointer is horrible. No matter the border size.

A few years ago I learned that most Linux WMs allow you to use ALT+RightMouse to resize your window from anywhere (sometimes WIN+RightMouse, usually configurable).

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by praptak »

bitigchi wrote: post #27

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I do not understand why people prefer tiling window managers. I prefer to have lots of windows open, and being able to position them how I want with the size I want greatly increases my productivity. Tiling window managers makes you conform to their way of working.

I do prefer tiling window managers because positioning the windows is tedious work that I am basically forced to do when working with a non-tiling WM.

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by veddox »

I love the concept of tiling WMs, and wish mainstream WMs would adopt more of their features. But quite frankly, I just find all the tiling WMs I know just horribly ugly... (And I'm not quite sure why, but that is actually one of the biggest reasons why I don't use them anymore.)

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by RMPR »

SubGenius wrote: post #3

i3 along with a few floating terminals with hotkeys is a dream setup for me. I have hotkeys for Guake, Terminator and Tilda and they position differently. I use the i3 scratchpad a lot too. My current dev machine has been running ArchLinux + i3-gaps for a couple of years now. Very solid, and not a single update screwup so far.

I usually keep Emacs opened on one general-purpose org file in the scratchpad, if I want to take a quick note or whatever. Works like a charm

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by ageofwant »

gkbrk wrote: post #45
ageofwant wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And sway does not do Nvidia.

Sway works with any GPU that implements the proper API on Linux. Nvidia has a bad case of NIH syndrome and does their own thing independent from other GPU manufacturers. So it would be more accurate to say Nvidia does not do sway.

Yes, that's true. But something worth noting for chumps, like me, that gave good money to Nvidia in good faith.

Re: I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

mrweasel wrote: post #39
bitigchi wrote: post #27

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but I do not understand why people prefer tiling window managers. I prefer to have lots of windows open, and being able to position them how I want with the size I want greatly increases my productivity. Tiling window managers makes you conform to their way of working.

I feel the same way. There are projects like EvilWM, which is still rather nice, that has the 1px border and looks alot like a tiling window manager. As I get old, I started to look more toward simple Windows managers, like OpenBox. I really do like having the buttons, and a window border I can actually hit with my pointer. Personally I think it would be fun if someone cloned Windows 3.11 and added a few ekstra keybo…

Wrt borders and title bar - most tiling managers support these (at configurable size), its just most users turn them off as the user is keyboard focused.
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