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Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i

Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i had A LOT more space).

Filligree 11y ago
XMonad has the feature that you can freely swap workspaces between screens. For example, you can show workspace 1 on screen 1, 2 on screen 2, and then switch them around to 3->1, 1->2, or any other combination you prefer. This is a killer feature for me, and I've never found any other WM capable of doing that.
- mikepurvis 11y ago
  That's amazing, I would love if OS X did that natively.
jbombadil 11y ago
Are you talking about tiling window managers on OS X or in general? If it's the general case, I have to disagree. XMonad is absolutely fantastic on multi monitors. The two things I liked to most were Mod+e or Mod+w to change focus to the previous and next monitor, and the ability to actually move an entire workspace to another monitor with the press of a button. This is obviously just my opinion. In the end, it's a mere matter of personal choice.
chimeracoder 11y ago
> Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i had A LOT more space). Even i3? I've only ever used i3 on two monitors[0], but it's been great for that. I'd also be a little surprised, just because multi-monitor support was quite literally the reason that i3 was created (wmii does not support dual monitors). [0] I'd love to hook up my third monitor, but I much prefer having 2 4K screens at 60Hz to having 3 4K screens at 30Hz
- simlevesque 11y ago
  i3 works great with three monitor. It's my work setup.
zeveb 11y ago
I've found stumpwm to be a real joy to use on multiple monitors. It feels like the future of human-computer interaction, today.
Tiksi 11y ago
Try awesomeWM, the multi monitor support is great, it works with pretty much every setup I've tried from xinerama to multiple xorg servers/screens. The config is all lua and can be a bit annoying but overall I've found it to be the best setup for multiple monitors.
pvdebbe 11y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. I coped with stacking WMs until I got a third monitor -- then it became virtually impossible not to use a tiling WM. :) How on earth do you throw windows from the leftmost monitor to the rightmost easily?!

Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i had A LOT more space).

Filligree 11y ago

XMonad has the feature that you can freely swap workspaces between screens. For example, you can show workspace 1 on screen 1, 2 on screen 2, and then switch them around to 3->1, 1->2, or any other combination you prefer. This is a killer feature for me, and I've never found any other WM capable of doing that.

mikepurvis 11y ago
That's amazing, I would love if OS X did that natively.

jbombadil 11y ago

Are you talking about tiling window managers on OS X or in general? If it's the general case, I have to disagree. XMonad is absolutely fantastic on multi monitors. The two things I liked to most were Mod+e or Mod+w to change focus to the previous and next monitor, and the ability to actually move an entire workspace to another monitor with the press of a button. This is obviously just my opinion. In the end, it's a mere matter of personal choice.

chimeracoder 11y ago

> Sadly all the tiling window managers i've tried suck on multi monitors though. When i switched to 3 monitors i gave up on tiling wm (for once with 3 monitors i had A LOT more space). Even i3? I've only ever used i3 on two monitors[0], but it's been great for that. I'd also be a little surprised, just because multi-monitor support was quite literally the reason that i3 was created (wmii does not support dual monitors). [0] I'd love to hook up my third monitor, but I much prefer having 2 4K screens at 60Hz to having 3 4K screens at 30Hz

simlevesque 11y ago
i3 works great with three monitor. It's my work setup.

zeveb 11y ago

I've found stumpwm to be a real joy to use on multiple monitors. It feels like the future of human-computer interaction, today.

Tiksi 11y ago

Try awesomeWM, the multi monitor support is great, it works with pretty much every setup I've tried from xinerama to multiple xorg servers/screens. The config is all lua and can be a bit annoying but overall I've found it to be the best setup for multiple monitors.

pvdebbe 11y ago

I had the exact opposite experience. I coped with stacking WMs until I got a third monitor -- then it became virtually impossible not to use a tiling WM. :) How on earth do you throw windows from the leftmost monitor to the rightmost easily?!