Fully featured tilling window managers (like DEs) for lazy people

I love WMs but sometimes I wish there was also a fully featured WM (like a DE) for lazy people.

Because sometimes I can’t be bothered customizing the configs and I would just rather have a slightly more bloated setup but with faster customization and some features out of the box without to much researching.

But in my perspective, in terms of work flow WMs are just the way to compute efficiently.

Do you have any suggestions of projects that might be out there that do fill this niche?

Prunebutt,

KDE plasma has a tiling feature and there’s the System76 shell for Gnome. They both work, but I’ve always felt like they feel like an afterthought.

But System76 is currently working on their Cosmic Desktop, which promises cool tiling features with a desktop feel to it. Many people are quite excited for i. :)

BlanK0,

Definitely going to keep my eyes on it 👀👍

pathief,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

The tiling feature in KDE is really subpar, to be honest.

transientpunk,
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

Have you tried the PopOS DE? That may scratch what you’re looking for

BlanK0,

Cosmic DE right? I might give it a go and see how it goes 👍

gregorum, (edited )

Cosmic DE is currently in Alpha and not being used in Pop!_OS yet. ATM, Pop!_OS uses tweaked-out GNOME 4 with a custom tiling WM called pop-shell.

Cosmic will probably release with the next major release of Pop!_OS, which is usually just after the next major release of Ubuntu every April.

taladar,

I think most tiling WMs are more for the keyboard based workflows that are less discoverable for the casual user using someone else’s config.

BlanK0,

True, but it would be pretty nice to have a sort of KDE or gnome type project but WM style

buzziebee,

As others have said, that’s basically pop shell. Cosmic will be out of alpha at some point this year, but you don’t need to wait for that to get started. I’ve been using pop os on my personal machine, and Ubuntu gnome with the pop-shell gnome extension for many years and it works great. Pretty much zero config and it is super easy to set up and get started.

RenardDesMers,
@RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml avatar

I think gnome team said they were experimenting with tiling features. I’m looking forward to checking what they came up with.

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