Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#2Very nice although I feel perfectly happy with MS FancyZones.
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#3Tried Komorebi while running Windows and liked it a lot! Got too annoyed with Windows in general and went back to PopOS with tiling enabled. Would love to see PopOS’ intuitive window swapping/stacking in Komorebi one day
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#4Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button, and watch the screen flick between almost as fast as the refresh rate of the monitor. It really makes a laptop, with a small screen and with no additional monitors, a high productivity environment. Which is too bad, because the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed.
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#5Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button…
I really appreciate this comment, I think it is spot on.
The official Win32 API for interacting with Virtual Desktops[1] is severely (deliberately?) lacking. There are some brave souls who are constantly reverse-engineering and figuring out how to interact with Virtual Desktops in all the ways that are missing from the official Win32 API, but this is a constant game of whack-a-mole because you never know when an update to Windows is going to break everything.[2]
If anyone working on the Virtual Desktops feature at Windows reads this: please give us a real, stable API for Virtual Desktops to develop against.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shobjidl...
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#6I've been using Winsplit Revolution for years, and more recently MaxTo. Is there some reason to use this over one of those?
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#7The almost-recursive screenshot in the README amused me
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#8I've been using Winsplit Revolution for years, and more recently MaxTo. Is there some reason to use this over one of those?
If your workflow ain't broke, don't fix it. ;)
Honestly, this rabbit hole goes so deep. I started using Yabai on macOS, and when I switched to Windows, the experience of trying to interface with a computer without a tiling window manager was so frustrating that I had no alternative but to write my own tiling window manager (well actually I wrote two, komorebi is the second one).
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#9Just to add one more to the conversation: I have found "FancyWM" to be a real productivity booster. For some reason it is pretty unknown, though.
Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
#10The almost-recursive screenshot in the README amused me
:D Thanks for mentioning this! I hadn't noticed it and it is an amazing touch.