cerement, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

• a big feature of tiling window managers is the auto-placement / auto-adjustment / auto-sizing of windows to fit available space
  • their main focus is always having everything visible (nothing hidden behind overlaps)
  • and most of them take advantage of having a good set of keybinds so everything can be keyboard driven rather than half-and-half with a mouse
• before jumping feet first into tiling window managers, get an easy introduction with
  • Pop Shell – an extension that adds tiling features to Gnome
  • PaperWM adds linear tiling to Gnome
  • Material Shell – focusing on a more grid based workspace model
• DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling
• check through the hotkeys of your current window manager – you won’t get the full dynamic features of a tiling window manager, but most of them have keys for snapping windows to top-half, bottom-half, left-half, right-half (as well as sometimes offering by quarter as well)