I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

Post by kule » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 7:02 PM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #346

kule wrote: post #218

Those that love using i3/tiling managers - what does your workflow look like? I used Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst an auto-tiler on the mac for quite some time but finally gave it up recently. I loved the auto-sizing but there were little niggles on the Mac e.g. some windows really needed to be floating and layout oddities when certain windows expected more width. I tended to find I was mostly just using…

I use bspwm, which is similar to i3. I mostly put 1-3 windows per workspace, and generally use one workspace per task. My "main" browser window is always workspace 1. My todo lists are always workspace 2. I then have one workspace set up to default to floating windows for apps that tends to go crazy with them, like e.g. gimp. The other workspaces are usually split into 2 or 3 windows, usually two columns with one win…

Post by hundchenkatze » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 7:18 PM UTC

devenblake wrote: post #351

pkulak wrote: post #342

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This is why I can never switch off i3 (well, Sway). I just use tabs too much. I even hacked Firefox to hide the tab bar and open every "tab" in a new window so I could use Sway tabs for browsing. BSPWM/DWM/etc all look cool, but no built-in tabs.

How did you hack Firefox that way? Been trying to figure that out for a while, no luck.

Post by mikevm » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC

nhumrich wrote: post #176

francis-io wrote: post #165

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This is kind of my story too. I stick with ubuntu LTS just for an added level of confidence things are compatible, but Arch might be a good idea to look into. The arch packages are a big plus. Do you find many compatibility issues?

I have found that a lot of people _think_ Ubuntu is safe/stable. But because the Linux kernel is a little behind, it usually isn't. I have had way more stability and compatibility with arch because everything is always up to date.

Post by samatman » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 8:09 PM UTC

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #282

b0rsuk wrote: post #262

I used to like KDE and dislike Gnome, but by the time I switched to i3 I realized I don't care about traditional window managers. I used a lot of console anyway. Why wait for windows and icons to appear? I want animations and decorations to get out of the way. If I'm playing, it's usually fullscreen. When I'm working, I want to use as much screen as possible. i3 sounded radical at first, but when was the last time an…

Aren't tiling window managers the traditional ones? The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation and is of course more difficult to implement. The earliest versions of Windows were also tiling only, which is thus the traditional way.

Post by b0rsuk » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 8:24 PM UTC

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #282

b0rsuk wrote: post #262

I used to like KDE and dislike Gnome, but by the time I switched to i3 I realized I don't care about traditional window managers. I used a lot of console anyway. Why wait for windows and icons to appear? I want animations and decorations to get out of the way. If I'm playing, it's usually fullscreen. When I'm working, I want to use as much screen as possible. i3 sounded radical at first, but when was the last time an…

Aren't tiling window managers the traditional ones? The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation and is of course more difficult to implement. The earliest versions of Windows were also tiling only, which is thus the traditional way.