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

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Thu, May 23, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

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…

Now imagine you could have had that since the beginning of cybertime with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM

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

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Post by resonious » Thu, May 23, 2024, 2:30 AM UTC

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…

Wow Niri looks really good. This is basically how I use GNOME. Problem with that is that when I plug into my ultrawide, I have to pull all my windows out of the separate workspaces, and vice-versa when I unplug.

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

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Post by squigz » Thu, May 23, 2024, 2:42 AM UTC

pluc wrote: post #16

squigz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Having been part of the i3 community for many years, yes it is, and thanks!

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

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Post by stirfish » Thu, May 23, 2024, 2:59 AM UTC

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.

I agree. I've only used regolith once, and it was a work computer that I didn't feel like copying my config to and didn't want to spend time configuring from scratch. It was nice in that case.

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

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Post by leephillips » Thu, May 23, 2024, 3:04 AM UTC

neontomo wrote: post #12

Makes me nostalgic about the time when I used DWM. Their philosophy page is worth a read for developers imo: https://suckless.org/philosophy/

Why did you stop using it? Once I tried it I never looked back.

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

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Post by one-punch » Thu, May 23, 2024, 3:27 AM UTC

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…

For those on hyprland:

[1] hyprslidr: https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr

[2] hyprscroller: https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller

Though need to extend hyprland to support layout outside viewport: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/5489

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

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Post by kelvie » Thu, May 23, 2024, 3:37 AM UTC

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 just switched from hyprland (due to those toxicity articles) back to KDE, and was pleasantly surprised at how much better these scrollable WMs are. I use Karousel[1] which is actually implemented as a KWin script, amazingly.

[1] https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

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

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Post by kelvie » Thu, May 23, 2024, 3:40 AM UTC

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…

Mentioned this in another comment, but there are pretty good implementations of tiling window managers as kwin scripts inside kwin. I've been using Karousel and it's been great, coming straight from Hyprland.

I use a plasma widget called "Command Output" to replicate most of what I needed from waybar, and set up Breeze to not have title bars, and added a plugin to get rounded window corners, and I don't miss hyprland at all anymore.

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

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Post by blahgeek » Thu, May 23, 2024, 4:42 AM UTC

Arnavion wrote: post #17

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.

It seems like it's reinventing (an partial, incomplete, non-standard) Xorg protocol on top of Wayland, while we can simply use X11

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

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Post by _def » Thu, May 23, 2024, 4:54 AM UTC

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…

Very interesting. I keep using gnome with extensions to make it easy to scroll through workspaces vertically. It works very well for me. Happy to see this.