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Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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stirfish wrote: post #9
squigz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious about this too. You'll have to pry i3 away from my cold dead hands.

Stick with i3! For anyone who wants i3 but doesn't want to configure it, the only other option I know of was regolith: https://regolith-desktop.com/ or https://regolith-linux.org/ This looks like a nice fit for my xfwm machine and I'm excited to try it.

Stuff like Regolith is great, but do yourself a favor and invest some time in making your desktop your own - it makes a world of difference in terms of efficiency, and you get to learn how all these applications work, what they're capable of, etc.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Post by pluc »

squigz wrote: post #11
stirfish wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stick with i3! For anyone who wants i3 but doesn't want to configure it, the only other option I know of was regolith: https://regolith-desktop.com/ or https://regolith-linux.org/ This looks like a nice fit for my xfwm machine and I'm excited to try it.

Stuff like Regolith is great, but do yourself a favor and invest some time in making your desktop your own - it makes a world of difference in terms of efficiency, and you get to learn how all these applications work, what they're capable of, etc.

Seriously - i3 config isn't that complicated and the documentation/community is great.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Post by Arnavion »

blahgeek wrote: post #14

It’s sad that this type of projects will not be possible with Wayland, because apparently pluggable wm is not a thing in Wayland

It can be if one wants to. For example river has its own protocol for letting clients arbitrarily position windows. There's a builtin one that does tiling, and then a bunch of user-created ones at https://codeberg.org/river/wiki/src/branch/master/pages/Comm...

But yes, it requires such extensibility support from the compositor, unlike this project that works with any X11 compositor because it just relies on EWMH.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

Great project but I truly believe that these single screen window managers are going to be a thing of the past if Scrollable WMs manage to find some more marketting.

Niri[1] and PaperWM[2] for example, these Scrolling WMs provide a way to tile your apps in a way that feels natural. It's like having multiple monitors without having multiple monitors.

When I first used PaperWM on Gnome, I just couldn't think of a reason why somebody would even use their computer the normal way when these exist.

[1]: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

[2]: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

PS: Check out Niri's releases section for videos.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Post by all2 »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #18

Great project but I truly believe that these single screen window managers are going to be a thing of the past if Scrollable WMs manage to find some more marketting. Niri[1] and PaperWM[2] for example, these Scrolling WMs provide a way to tile your apps in a way that feels natural. It's like having multiple monitors without having multiple monitors. When I first used PaperWM on Gnome, I just couldn't think of a reaso…

I was going to ask what made a single horizontal strip superior to i3 or swayed, until I saw the work spaces.

I'd love to see a vertical version of this for phones and tablets.

Re: Cortile – Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support

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Post by all2 »

lambdaloop wrote: post #2

This is amazing, I just ran it and it works perfectly for my needs! For context, I recently switched to the KDE window manager (KWin) after a decade of xmonad, to simplify my configuration. KWin supports some tiling but isn't really built for it, so I had some minor annoyances. I ran cortile and it perfectly auto-tiled my windows and allows me to still adjust the sizes with the mouse! Thank you to the author! I'd say…

I have a config on github to replace plasma's core window manager with i3wm.

https://github.com/comalice/dotfiles if you're interested.

I like kde's batteries included stuff, but none of the tiling functionality matched i3.

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