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Really hope that the "full window manager" item leads to good things. Having proper tiling window management with extensive keyboard control would be so awesome
by segphault 7y ago
Really hope that the "full window manager" item leads to good things. Having proper tiling window management with extensive keyboard control would be so awesome.
- naikrovek 7y agoI got a UHD monitor and when I did, the normal Windows keyboard shortcuts we're quickly rendered useless. So, with the help of an Internet Guy I have an AutoHotKey script that makes window management dead easy. I'll share it if anyone wants it.
- eitland 7y agoI guess several people here would be interested. Back in the days I remember using something I guess from the donationcoder website, that would allow me to drag windows into "placeholders" on the screen. I used it to get consistent setups when recording screencasts when I was a teacher. (And if anyone needs something to setup widows for screenrecording on Linux this is the best I've found, thanks to Robert Gamble on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/288537/9987 https://stackoverflow.com/a/288537/9987)
- naikrovek 7y agohttps://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec02bc21f https://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec0...
- tracker1 7y agoShould throw it up on a Gist and share it...
- naikrovek 7y agohttps://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec02bc21f https://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec0...
- no_identd 7y agoPlease do share!
- naikrovek 7y agohttps://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec02bc21f https://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec0...
- JaimeThompson 7y agoThank you!!!
- stronglikedan 7y agoJumping on the please-share train.
- naikrovek 7y agohttps://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec02bc21f https://gist.github.com/naikrovek/b13a77d169de0e192bcf48fec0...
- stronglikedan 7y agoMuch appreciated!
- pndy 7y agoI can't understand what's so amazing about tiling window management/managers. Reddit's r/unixporn seems to be so much dominated by posts featuring that kind of WM, they should already change name of the sub, I believe. So again, are there any specific advantages in everyday work for ordinary user or it's more convenient for people who need to idk, monitor lots of things at the same time without overlapping windows?
- stonewareslord 7y agoIt's just a different way of thinking about windows. Why is a stacked layout better? Because users are more familiar with them. Why is tiling ‘better’? Because it gives more control to the user so they can work faster. In my experience with tiling, almost everything is faster. It boils down to vim vs a mouse based editor. People prefer it because your hands already on the keyboard, why move them to do arbitrary things like window switching? Example: your web browser is always accessible with Win+2, the window to the left is Win+h, your terminal is Win+Enter, etc. It's trivial to create a binding for something you do often, for example press Win+q to create a QR code from your clipboard. If you don’t like any of those, it's easy to change them to fit your style. Also it seems like you aren't consnidering workspaces, which are key with tiling window managers. If you had only one workspace then yeah, just having 4 windows would already cut your window size. Workspaces allow you to have multiple desktops of tiling windows. So you could have just one window in workspace 2 and 4 windows in workspace 1, ...
- emiliobool 7y agoYou also have tabs on top of workspaces so not everything has to be visible, but the layout is always under control and a few keystrokes away from navigating to your window of choice also no more window title bars meaning more screen state and a cleaner interface
- kohlerm 7y agoi3wm for Windows would be amazing