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actually i like to have lots of partially overlapping windows. every window is exactly where I left it and the frequently touched ones will have a small bit vis

actually i like to have lots of partially overlapping windows. every window is exactly where I left it and the frequently touched ones will have a small bit visible that i can grab on to bring the whole window to the front. if i only care about part of a window, then i can efficiently arrange my windows so only the part i care about is visible (while still interacting with it since I have focus-follows-mouse). it's far more useful than a taskbar or expose, since they keep moving what i'm using. the taskbar is a particularly poor design since all i have is a title and at that point i'm just guessing and hoping. tiling window managers and raise-on-focus systems don't particularly appeal to me because they require me to see the whole of a window. tiling window managers probably have a way to ensure a window is exactly where i left it but it seems antithetical to the alleged advantages. (doesn't "automatically manage your windows" mean "automatically decide where to put a window, and move them around based on the size of other windows"?)

michaelmrose 8y ago
Some wm automatically arrange windows in a layout others example i3wm just split the screen between windows on a given screen/workspace. Note that a workspace in this instance is only one monitor in a multi monitor configuration. By default a single window workspace it takes up all the space. Opening another gives you a new window to the right of the first each half the width of the screen. On a tall not wide screen it would appear below the first each half the height of the screen. You can have splitv and splith containers as well as vertical or horizontal tabbed layouts of any kind of windows. Dialog windows are automatically floating. You can have containers by containers or nested as you please example 3 horizontal tabs each split in half if you like.

michaelmrose 8y ago

Some wm automatically arrange windows in a layout others example i3wm just split the screen between windows on a given screen/workspace. Note that a workspace in this instance is only one monitor in a multi monitor configuration. By default a single window workspace it takes up all the space. Opening another gives you a new window to the right of the first each half the width of the screen. On a tall not wide screen it would appear below the first each half the height of the screen. You can have splitv and splith containers as well as vertical or horizontal tabbed layouts of any kind of windows. Dialog windows are automatically floating. You can have containers by containers or nested as you please example 3 horizontal tabs each split in half if you like.