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?

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.

transientpunk,
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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.

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 👀👍

GravitySpoiled,

Are you asking for a gnome extension like g Forge github.com/forge-ext/forge or github.com/paperwm/PaperWM ?

BlanK0,

More like traditional dynamic tilling WM

GravitySpoiled,

There’s wayblue github.com/wayblueorg/wayblue that sounds like what you want

yianiris,
@yianiris@kafeneio.social avatar

labwc is the best wl wm I've tried

@BlanK0 @GravitySpoiled

Lettuceeatlettuce,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

In KDE Plasma, Super + T brings up a built in tiling feature. It’s super basic, but allows you to set static window snap zones on any display.

Each zone can be split horizontally or vertically, and you can adjust the zone-gaps to the exact pixel you want.

It’s not dynamic as far as I know, but for me it’s all I need.

Once you go back into regular desktop mode, you can use the zone snaps by holding shift while you drag a window. Releasing the window while holding shift will snap the window into the current snap zone it’s closest to.

Fyde,
@Fyde@lemmy.world avatar

Plasma lets you change WM: …kde.org/…/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasm…

I tried with bspwm and it works well, you can also disable Plasma’s keyboard shortcuts if you want to use sxhkd.

d3Xt3r,

Am important gotcha is:

Other window managers are only available when using X.org. These changes cannot be made for Wayland sessions yet.

cerement,
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  • there’s the “add tiling features to a DE” path – Pop Shell / Cosmic DE is the best known, but KDE has some pretty decent options and there’s a couple Python scripts (at various stages of readiness) for Xfce
  • or the “add a DE to a tiling window manager” – Regolith is the best known here (basically swapping i3 for Mutter), but along those lines it’s “relatively” easy to swap out window managers in the desktop of your choice (i3 + Xfce being an easy choice)
mundane,

Gnome with the gTile extension is quite nice.

Discover5164,

i’ve used kde with bismuth for a long time. now it’s dying… polonium is it’s successor but still a long way ahead.

i have high hopes for cosmic

Certainity45,

Manjaro Sway.

igorette,
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regolith-desktop.com

Xirup, (edited )
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If you want just boot your system and not have to worry about setting up keybindings, my best suggest is ArcoLinuxB i3 Edition and Garuda Linux i3 flavor, you really don’t have to worry at all for that, and you use the i3 reference card to learn the most common keybindigs.

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