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The tiling window manager wasn't invented yet? All of these screenshots look like floating window hell. Thank god we live in the future!

mbrock 11y ago
ratpoison was started in 2000, I think... inspired by this: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html I've been using it since around 2003 or 2004... Except I don't use the tiling stuff. I like to live in a kind of retro future. My laptop has a retina display that I mostly use for full screen black xterms with a font about the size to fit 80 characters.
a3n 11y ago
fvwm could be tiled.
fulafel 11y ago
What's in dmr's drawterm looks pretty tiled to me.
- jff 11y ago
  That's acme, Plan 9's answer to emacs that does a really good job of managing tiled (text-only) "windows". It also served as an inspiration to the wmii tiling window manager on Linux
yankcrime 11y ago
There was at least Ion and Ratpoison (mentioned elsewhere ITT).
pivo 11y ago
The first version of Windows used a tiling window manager (or whatever that sort of thing is called on Windows.)
- Xophmeister 11y ago
  Wasn't that just a technological workaround, though? The hardware couldn't support overlapping windows.
  - apk17 11y ago
    Back then the (usual) hardware didn't support anything; the Xserver just wrote into some 100KByte of video memory, one bit per pixel. The X server had to deal with overlapping, and could.
  - anonymfus 11y ago
    Only top level application windows were tiled. Dialog windows were floating above them and they were overlapping. There was no need for hardware support because windows were not buffered, they repainted itself when the system told them to do it.
  - pivo 11y ago
    It was at least partly due to Apple claiming ownership of overlapping windows.
  - qb45 11y ago
    According to "Barbarians led by Bill Gates" this was an intentional choice justified by studies of number of clicks required to perform some tasks. Great book, btw.
apk17 11y ago
rtlwm was written and working around '87. It even has its own entry in the X11 icon font.

mbrock 11y ago

ratpoison was started in 2000, I think... inspired by this: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html I've been using it since around 2003 or 2004... Except I don't use the tiling stuff. I like to live in a kind of retro future. My laptop has a retina display that I mostly use for full screen black xterms with a font about the size to fit 80 characters.

a3n 11y ago

fvwm could be tiled.

fulafel 11y ago

What's in dmr's drawterm looks pretty tiled to me.

jff 11y ago
That's acme, Plan 9's answer to emacs that does a really good job of managing tiled (text-only) "windows". It also served as an inspiration to the wmii tiling window manager on Linux

yankcrime 11y ago

There was at least Ion and Ratpoison (mentioned elsewhere ITT).

pivo 11y ago

The first version of Windows used a tiling window manager (or whatever that sort of thing is called on Windows.)

Xophmeister 11y ago
Wasn't that just a technological workaround, though? The hardware couldn't support overlapping windows.
- apk17 11y ago
  Back then the (usual) hardware didn't support anything; the Xserver just wrote into some 100KByte of video memory, one bit per pixel. The X server had to deal with overlapping, and could.
- anonymfus 11y ago
  Only top level application windows were tiled. Dialog windows were floating above them and they were overlapping. There was no need for hardware support because windows were not buffered, they repainted itself when the system told them to do it.
- pivo 11y ago
  It was at least partly due to Apple claiming ownership of overlapping windows.
- qb45 11y ago
  According to "Barbarians led by Bill Gates" this was an intentional choice justified by studies of number of clicks required to perform some tasks. Great book, btw.

apk17 11y ago

rtlwm was written and working around '87. It even has its own entry in the X11 icon font.