Why You Should Try a Tiling Window Manager
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Why You Should Try a Tiling Window Manager
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Re: Why You Should Try a Tiling Window Manager
#2I kind of use tiling in OSX. Most of my apps are running full-screen on two monitors, and I swipe across desktops to get to other apps. Of course, I am able to stack apps on top of eachother, but for the most part I don't. I have a desktop for sublime, a desktop for sequel pro, a desktop for a browser. In the event I need to look at two things at once, it's easy enough to drag things around.
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#3At work I spend all day in Windows 7. The best thing I've found is WinSplit Revolution, which is nice but leaves a lot to be desired. (Unfortunately switching to Linux just isn't going to happen, for a number of reasons. But I get to use dwm at home, which I really like.)
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#4I LOVE Divvy on OSX. http://mizage.com/divvy/
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#5I'm happy with tiled windows in Acme (editor/IDE) for daily work. The layouting algorithm (a simple one) does the right thing most of the time :^)
My usual mode is Acme maximized on one screen, and browser, email and IM spread on the other.
See it in action in rsc's screencast: http://research.swtch.com/acme
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#6Anyone know if "Notion" works as well in the latest Ubuntu releases as suggested by the author of the post?
(i.e. XMondad got jacked pretty badly in Ubuntu 13.04 and now requires lots of low level linux voodoo.)
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#7I've used awesome before, and I was quite impressed. Once you get the hang of shortcuts, you tend to be vastly more productive than if you were using a traditional or compositing wm. I grew up with a compositing WM, but the transition was easy enough. I'm curious if the advent of mobile devices (i.e. smartphone, tablet, etc) would lead one to choose tiling WMs over the traditional kind.
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#8I'm happy with tiled windows in Acme (editor/IDE) for daily work. The layouting algorithm (a simple one) does the right thing most of the time :^) My usual mode is Acme maximized on one screen, and browser, email and IM spread on the other. See it in action in rsc's screencast: http://research.swtch.com/acme
I really wanted to like it, but the lack of syntax highlighting drove me nuts.
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#9I use SizeUp and have been very happy with it.
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#10I'm really surprised that he left out i3wm. It's lightweight and the tiling placement is surprisingly intuitive and simple.
Here's the Google Talk: