Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
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Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
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Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#2Recent versions of KDE have pretty good tiling support, so it's possible to have a rich DE and good tiling.
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#3I used Xmonad for a while, then switched to awesomewm used it for years. It was good on a 1366x768 screen to use space efficiently.
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#4Tiling WMs are dead. Long live tiling WMs. Scrolling WMs like Niri/Paperwm are where it’s at now.
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#5Recent versions of KDE have pretty good tiling support, so it's possible to have a rich DE and good tiling.
I also find KDE to be good enough for my personal taste. I have tried different WMs, but always found the huge configuration effort to not be worth the marginal productivity gains I get over KDE + some custom keybinds
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#6The only reason I used manjaro and thus arch was that it had really nice I3, bspwm, and xmonad distributions.
It's very fun to rice a setup and make something worthy of posting on r/linuxporn.
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#7Recent versions of KDE have pretty good tiling support, so it's possible to have a rich DE and good tiling.
Even xfce will tile windows to 4 quadrants, left/right-halves, top/bottom-halves. I have not studied other tiling window managers enough to know what I'm missing.
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#8Tiling WMs are dead. Long live tiling WMs. Scrolling WMs like Niri/Paperwm are where it’s at now.
Just moved to Niri, it's incredible how snappy it is. The animation makes what you did with the window much clearer vs. other wms where it just teleports, the scrolling just compounds to that effect. The scrolling is great because it tends to work at getting things out of the way when they're not relevant and bringing them back when they are, while not ending up with tiny windows like dwm/AwesomeWM/Sway (what I've been using for the last ~15 years).
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#9Tiling WMs are dead. Long live tiling WMs. Scrolling WMs like Niri/Paperwm are where it’s at now.
Looking at a video demo of Niri for an example: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
Conceptually, it's like an infinite 2D canvas windows, divided into strips (strip is a workspace), and you then scroll through an infinite ribbon of windows in each strip.
Seems interesting, but also slower and less flexible than traditional tiling WMs (least of all because of the slow scrolling animations, but also because it seems to prefer scrolling instead of jumping-towards).
Like most of the 'tiling with gaps' patches I see, these feel like trying to look fancy without necessarily delivering big value. I'd be interested to hear why people want a scrolling WM. Is it merely more visually pleasing?
Re: Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad
#10Tiling WMs are dead. Long live tiling WMs. Scrolling WMs like Niri/Paperwm are where it’s at now.
Niri has been really nice over the last week since I moved to it. It has allowed me to get down to ~2 persistent workspaces instead of the usual 5-6.
Workspace 1: Browser, Email, Music
Workspace 2: Running project, editor(s)
On sway/i3 I always had these things split across multiple workspaces it could get tedious switching between them at times.