WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop

i3 and any similar window manager have this feature.

A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well.

The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor discoverability, since it's a modifier to the window drag action that has no corresponding buttons or "landing zones" like what you get if you try to tear tabs out of a Firefox window.

Not free (or 'free') but there is a commercial app that does this very well indeed - Stardock Groupy. It was bundled in with something else I bought years ago and I just leave it running as it's quite handy.

https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

Stardock Groupy is a commercial supported utility that does the same thing, IIRC released during the long period when Microsoft was teasing Windows 10 Sets.

https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

I think Microsoft must have abandoned sets when they moved to Edgium; their engineers were somehow under the impression that Sets was 100% dependent on Edge, and I think they must have been planning the feature as a cudgel against other browsers. IDK, I wish the Windows PMs were like 40% less user hostile and didn’t treat us like children to be manipulated.

Tldr, Groupy is pretty cool and at least appears to fit in with the windows 10 desktop better than the open source utility, for a price.

You beat me to it. They’ve got a bunch of cool utilities. In the windows 7 days I was a huge fan of logon studio.

Microsoft could learn a lot from what they’re doing, as for the most part I still prefer not using 3rd-party utilities to mess with things.