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Anything other than Gnome or KDE will use less than half the resources. XFCE, Mate, LXDE/LXQT, etc. while maintaining the whole "environment" part of "desktop e

Anything other than Gnome or KDE will use less than half the resources. XFCE, Mate, LXDE/LXQT, etc. while maintaining the whole "environment" part of "desktop environment". There's a huge difference between a tiling WM and a full-blown DE, and people who want the Gnome or KDE experience should absolutely not install sway or any other tiling WM. Signed, a tiling WM user.

ohazi 8y ago
DEs should make it easier to use tiling as a feature rather than having to go all-in with something like i3 or awesome. I use xfce, and it's pretty easy to add sensible keybindings for snap-window-{up, down, left, right, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, fullscreen}. That's usually all I want, although occasionally it would be nice to be able to quickly split by thirds. This still feels super snappy and productive, and you still get people asking you "whoa, how did you do that!?" But you can also overlap windows without changing modes, and the usual window manipulators are still there when they make sense, or when someone else wants to use your computer. You shouldn't have to throw away the rest of the "normal" DE and relearn how to interact with your computer to get tiling. It should just be a secret superpower for people who know that it's there. I've never understood why it's always one or the other.
- Symbiote 8y ago
  KDE doesn't have shortcuts defined by default, but in "Global Shortcuts" under "KWin" you can define shortcuts for "Quick Tile Window to the —" and "Maximize Window". There seem to be some plugins or scripts for grid tiling, but I've never investigated. https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin (wow...) found via https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/87hutr/kde_making_plasma_512_look_like_a_tiling_window/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/87hutr/kde_making...
Vogtinator 8y ago
Plasma uses 200MiB here, I doubt that any of the ones you listed go lower than that.
- kungtotte 8y ago
  Really? Are you just counting the plasma process or are you including everything else that's part of KDE?

ohazi 8y ago

DEs should make it easier to use tiling as a feature rather than having to go all-in with something like i3 or awesome. I use xfce, and it's pretty easy to add sensible keybindings for snap-window-{up, down, left, right, top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, fullscreen}. That's usually all I want, although occasionally it would be nice to be able to quickly split by thirds. This still feels super snappy and productive, and you still get people asking you "whoa, how did you do that!?" But you can also overlap windows without changing modes, and the usual window manipulators are still there when they make sense, or when someone else wants to use your computer. You shouldn't have to throw away the rest of the "normal" DE and relearn how to interact with your computer to get tiling. It should just be a secret superpower for people who know that it's there. I've never understood why it's always one or the other.

Symbiote 8y ago
KDE doesn't have shortcuts defined by default, but in "Global Shortcuts" under "KWin" you can define shortcuts for "Quick Tile Window to the —" and "Maximize Window". There seem to be some plugins or scripts for grid tiling, but I've never investigated. https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin https://github.com/lingtjien/Grid-Tiling-Kwin (wow...) found via https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/87hutr/kde_making_plasma_512_look_like_a_tiling_window/ https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/87hutr/kde_making...

Vogtinator 8y ago

Plasma uses 200MiB here, I doubt that any of the ones you listed go lower than that.

kungtotte 8y ago
Really? Are you just counting the plasma process or are you including everything else that's part of KDE?