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I'm just here to shamelessly shill for Notion (not-ion), though it is probably the furthest tiling WM from this guy's wants (ease of setting up shiny things). I

I'm just here to shamelessly shill for Notion (not-ion), though it is probably the furthest tiling WM from this guy's wants (ease of setting up shiny things). I swear there are still dozens of active users. It's tiling is like i3 except it uses manual layouts instead of dynamic. So when you create yet another xterm window it does not rearrange all the other tiles on your screen, it just creates a new tab in the current frame. If you want a new horizontal or vertical split, you create it explicitly. I open shells like browser tabs, so if the default was to somehow find screen space for each one, I'd be looking at hundreds of 2x2 sized xterms. Honestly if I could get i3 to behave like this I'd probably switch (and I've tried...I realize you can set a pane into tab mode, but I find it's still too easy to totally mess up your layout if you are not careful in i3. Anyone got tips?). I also once used Awesome, and the constant reshuffling of the screen layout drove me crazy. Did not really care for the fixed layouts either.

nextos 7y ago
I used XMonad for very long time. I briefly tried i3, but I didn't like it. I actually prefer manual tiling WMs too. So I settled down on StumpWM. It's really good and easy to configure.
celrod 7y ago
I use gnome-terminal instead of xterm in i3. gnome-terminal supports tabs (control+shift+t), so I can easily choose between a new tab versus a new window.
adrusi 7y ago
With sway (Wayland port of i3) you can set "workspace_layout tabbed" to have the default container be tabbed, and also top level splits that are created by moving a window out of a tabbed container be tabbed. I think i3 works like this too, but I don't remember well. The i3 model requires building a strong intuition for how to solve broken layouts, and it can be frustrating until you know how. But once you figure it out it's automatic. It's not for everyone, but a lot of people end up liking it a lot.
dividuum 7y ago
One of the dozen users checking in. My favorite feature of ion/notion is the alt-space scratch pad. I always have a bunch of ad-hoc terminals or other programs open that I can easily reach from any desktop. So far I haven't seen any other tiling wm that has something similar. I'm probably wrong though.
- zem 7y ago
  i did that with xmonad - set up alt-` to either switch to desktop 10, or if i was on desktop 10, to switch back to the previous desktop.
  - dividuum 7y ago
    That's certainly an interesting idea. Thanks!
    - pard68 7y ago
      I have a number of terminals mapped to hyper+[letter] in i3, five are empty with just a shell. Two are Python repls, and the rest are actually various outputs for programs I run where I want to see a log of whats happening
- rusticpotato 7y ago
  Uhh i3 has had a scratchpad forever and I use it in tabbed mode with as many tabs as I want
  - dividuum 7y ago
    Yep. That's the "I'm probably wrong" part. I knew that i3 had something like that, but I remember that you could only start one program within the scratchpad. If there's a tabbed mode within the scratchpad, I should probably take another look.
    - rusticpotato 7y ago

nextos 7y ago

I used XMonad for very long time. I briefly tried i3, but I didn't like it. I actually prefer manual tiling WMs too. So I settled down on StumpWM. It's really good and easy to configure.

celrod 7y ago

I use gnome-terminal instead of xterm in i3. gnome-terminal supports tabs (control+shift+t), so I can easily choose between a new tab versus a new window.

adrusi 7y ago

With sway (Wayland port of i3) you can set "workspace_layout tabbed" to have the default container be tabbed, and also top level splits that are created by moving a window out of a tabbed container be tabbed. I think i3 works like this too, but I don't remember well. The i3 model requires building a strong intuition for how to solve broken layouts, and it can be frustrating until you know how. But once you figure it out it's automatic. It's not for everyone, but a lot of people end up liking it a lot.

dividuum 7y ago

One of the dozen users checking in. My favorite feature of ion/notion is the alt-space scratch pad. I always have a bunch of ad-hoc terminals or other programs open that I can easily reach from any desktop. So far I haven't seen any other tiling wm that has something similar. I'm probably wrong though.

zem 7y ago
i did that with xmonad - set up alt-` to either switch to desktop 10, or if i was on desktop 10, to switch back to the previous desktop.
- dividuum 7y ago
  That's certainly an interesting idea. Thanks!
  - pard68 7y ago
    I have a number of terminals mapped to hyper+[letter] in i3, five are empty with just a shell. Two are Python repls, and the rest are actually various outputs for programs I run where I want to see a log of whats happening
rusticpotato 7y ago
Uhh i3 has had a scratchpad forever and I use it in tabbed mode with as many tabs as I want
- dividuum 7y ago
  Yep. That's the "I'm probably wrong" part. I knew that i3 had something like that, but I remember that you could only start one program within the scratchpad. If there's a tabbed mode within the scratchpad, I should probably take another look.
  - rusticpotato 7y ago